Former Brechin citizen of the year and Angus nursing instructor Flora Campbell has died aged 100.
She was a resident at the Glade Residential Home in Brechin and celebrated her centenary year in September.
Born in Pinner, Middlesex, on September 11 1913, Ms Campbell was educated in Croydon then moved with her family to Cambridgeshire.
She undertook nurse training at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge and always remained a member of their League of Nurses.
Ms Campbell qualified as a midwife in 1943 and then attended Edinburgh University and completed her sister tutor certificate in 1951 before she took up a post at Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow as men’s surgical ward sister.
Another move took her to Edencourt in Inverness before finally coming to Stracathro Hospital assister tutor where she trained women to become nurses.
Ms Campbell retired 40 years ago and took up community work.
This gained her the title Brechin Citizen of the Year in 1993.
In September last year she marked her 100th birthday the first in the family to pass such a remarkable milestone.
