Funeral date set for 'trailblazer' Shrewsbury professor
The life of an extraordinary Shrewsbury woman will be marked at her funeral.
Emeritus Professor Lalage Bown OBE died in Shrewsbury hospital on December 17, aged 94, after a fall at home.
Since her death tributes have poured in to Professor Bown, who has been described as an "icon" and a "trailblazer in the global adult education movement".
The family has sent invitations out to the funeral service which will be held at the crematorium in Shrewsbury at 9.15am on January 28 and they are planning a celebration of her life in the summer with a scattering of ashes in the church where she grew up in Woolstaston.
Professor Bown, who spent 30 years of her life working in Africa, was named ‘Mother of Adult Education in Africa’ in celebration of her 70th birthday in 1997.
Among the many heartfelt tributes posted online are those of Taiwo Oluwatomisin and Kehinde Akin, the foster daughters who lived with Professor Bown from the age of five in 1962. They called her Aunty Lala, and say she was a "mother personified".
