Rachel Peterkin, founder of Fife Folk Museum in Ceres, has died aged 98.
She lived In Ceres for 66 years, where she made a beautiful garden that was open for visits by the National Garden Scheme and many other local gardening societies.
It was only at the age of 94 that she realised that she could not go on living at home.
She left Fife and moved to Somerset to be nearer her family.
Even in her late eighties she was still planting, in particular a small arboretum.
She was the founder of Fife Folk Museum, which she supported right up until her death on November 22.
Mrs Peterkin was a former Fife county councillor, chairman of the Fife Preservation Society and served on the committee of the St Rule Club in St Andrews.
She helped with fundraising for not only the museum but also the Red Cross and other charities.
Her father, Adam G Watson, an Edinburgh lawyer, had given her gardening projects to undertake from the age of 12, and so the garden bug was in her blood.
Her husband, William Conon Grant Peterkin, was a writer to the signet who worked for the firm Pagan, Osborne and Grace until his death at the age of 68.
Mrs Peterkin’s family also had a legal background.
Both her grandfather and his brother were Law Lords, the latter being Her Majesty’s Advocate for Scotland.
It seemed apt, therefore, that she should marry a writer to the signet.
Mrs Peterkin’s daughter, Elisabeth Prodeaux-Brune, described her mother as a determined and vivacious character and fiercely independent.
She was a much loved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
“Her family meant so much to her and she meant so much to us all,” Elisabeth said.