My grandmother Eve Thompson, who died at the age of 95, was the director of the theater stage, a secretary and a nurse in the nursery – until later in life, she participated in volunteer work and advocacy, especially with regard to mental health.
After the diagnosis of Ibn Hawa bin Al -Afsam in the early 1980s, I volunteered for the national schizophrenia Fellowship (now rethinking the mental illness), working with service users, care providers and professionals to improve services, establish subsidized housing and ensure the auxiliary families they need.
She became her national president in 1990, a five -year position, and she was also a trustee. Explicit about the deficiency of financing, in the 1993 article in the independent newspaper, she said: “The size of the check is the most important thing. You cannot make bricks without straw. There are no simply the cash resources available to what to do.”
Eve was born in Birmingham To Ernest Salt, a legal accountant, and his wife, Joan (Ni Morgan). Even during World War II, I joined the Edgbaston Secondary School for Girls, the family moved to Northhamptonchier, then Stratford Abon Avon, where she went to the Limantton Secondary School for Girls. At the age of fifteen, she joined the Birmingham Reciptory Theater School, and traveled the following year to Charleston, South Carolina, on a theatrical grant.
She later worked as a theater manager for the Reportory Theater companies in Yorkshire and southwest of England, even in 1950 she decided that theatrical life was not for her.
Moving to London in the early fifties of the last century, she completed a path at St. Godrick College of Secretariat in Hampsid, north of London, before he took over many secretarial jobs, including as the Secretary of Political Caricature Fecien (Victor Wesz). After her marriage to John Thompson, a civilian employee, in 1954, she focused on raising her small family – they had three children, Katie, Jenny and Ben.
In the early 1970s, the place of custody of Laban, who had additional needs, despair, Eve trained to be a nursery nurse at the Barnet College in North London, after which she worked for several years in a nursery for children with learning difficulties run by the Westminster Association. When she and John returned to Stratford Abon Affon in 1981, she retired.
For many years, Eve and John worked on alcohol. Things arrived in her head in the mid -eighties of the last century when Eve was transferred to the hospital and then was treated in the Woodleight Beeches Elucting and Mubsants unit, which strengthened her to save her life.
Then she and John remained realistic for the rest of their lives. They have also become active in anonymous alcoholic addicts, and they support others in healing through practical advice and mercy that were based on their own experiences.
Eve kept her dry intelligence and design, and Eve kept profound obligations to calling for family and mental health, as well as a permanent love for the theater.
John died in 2007 and Ben died in 2016. Eve escaped her two daughters, four grandchildren and seven grandchildren.
