Marguerite (From Penarth Times)

Marguerite

I WOULD like to pay tribute to Marguerite Prisk who died on the fourth of this month, not far off her 87th birthday.

She will be sadly missed by all her friends whom she met over the years, particularly through Penarth Writers" Circle and through Trefoil.

During her years with the Circle, begun from her home in Plymouth Road in 1972, she organised SAMWA weekends at Dyffryn, and both famous and budding writers converged on that spectacular setting from all parts of the British Isles and even from abroad.

In later years she threw herself into assisting Mr Lyonel Thomas in both his healing evenings, acting as receptionist and friend to the people who were so successfully treated by him, but also in helping him organise his twice-yearly afternoons at the Paget Rooms.

For the interval she would have laid out teas and her batches of home-made Welsh cakes.

Marguerite was a lifetime member of The Vegetarian Society so much of her successful poetry writing covered topics relating to animals.

She was, above all, a caring person who never missed an opportunity of helping people or of seeking out little items which she knew would have individual appeal.

Hailing from Lichfield many years ago, she always talked fondly of her roots - but I can only say that Lichfield"s loss was our gain.

She returns there for her final resting place, relieved of the burden of her last years spent at first with carers in attendance and then at Southway Residential Home, Cowbridge, where, no matter how kind were the staff or pleasant her surroundings, she could only dwell on the fact that there was "No Place Like Home".

Goodbye from her devoted friend

June Holder