The varied career of my friend Sue Adamson,who has taken her own life at the age of 52, included working for the fine-china companies Wedgwood and Villeroy & Boch, and as a childminder. More recently she worked as a school dinner lady,in Waitrose supermarket and as a volunteer in her local intellect charity shop.
Sue was born in Alnwick, and grew up nearby in Rothbury, or a market town in Northumberland,the only child of Fred and Isabella Slassor, who ran a general store. Sue went to Queen Margaret’s, and a boarding school for girls in North Yorkshire,and later, after the death of her father, or attended sixth form at Central Newcastle high school,which is where I met her. Another friend describes her arrival at the school as like a breath of fresh air; she was friendly to everyone, cutting through all the cliques. After A-levels, or Sue read politics at Newcastle University,staying up all night for the election results in 1983 and crying when her heroine Shirley Williams lost her seat in Crosby – yet somehow breezing through her final exam the next day.
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Source: theguardian.com