Memories of Muriel
Some thoughts from old friends – first Jean Robert, then Veronica Ellis
I first met Muriel in 1999 when I joined the Friends of the Radcliffe Infirmary as a volunteer at their cafe. It was the beginning of a wonderful friendship. It was Muriel who introduced me to her many friends and associates, most of whom have remained friends even...
From Nigel Speight, one time Warden at St.Mary Mags and a friend of Muriel’s for 20 years.
As Jessica has made clear, Muriel was into recycling long before most of us and there was nothing haphazard about her Christmas card collages from her previous year's intake. She would try to make her rearrangements personal for each recipient. She was into ecology...
From Jessica Reid, a server at Mary Mags in her youth who has since been ordained.
Muriel’s generosity was apparent even in the smallest of gestures. I was a rather shy undergraduate, one of the dozens of students who threw themselves into the worshipping life of Mary Mags, and I was touched the first time I received a Christmas card from her; I...
From Father Peter Groves
I received a call telling me that the 104 year old Ella Waydelin was in hospital. So I charged up to the JR in Oxford as quickly as I could, took the lift up to the 7th floor, headed down the very long corridor only to hear the insistent chinking of a walking frame...