Beverley Pedley spent her entire working life as a nurse in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
Ms Pedley first trained to be a nurse in the 1970sBeverley Pedley, who started as a cadet at the age of 15, at Standon Orthopaedic Hospital in Staffordshire, died last month aged 69.
Ms Pedley moved from Stafford to Telford in the mid 1990s. A service at Telford Crematorium saw her former colleagues pay tribute with an honour guard around her coffin."A lot of her friends and family were regaling me about tales from the wards and tales from their time in hospital with her," he said.
Mr Hodson said his mother retired in 2019 to care for his father when he contracted cancer, but when the pandemic hit she returned to care for patients in hospitals again.He said he had distinct memories from when he was younger, of his mum's books on the dining room table as she studied to become a senior nurse practitioner.
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