A former Perth High and Kilgraston School music teacher has died just 13 days before her 100th birthday.
Helen Jackson was born on March 20 1915 in Comrie. Her family moved to Perth and she began school at Western District, which is now Craigie Primary School, before she moved on to Perth Academy.
She began work with the telephone exchange then became a sub-postmistress at Blair Atholl.
A keen music fan, after the war she attended the Royal Academy of Music in London, passing out in 1949.
Helen took up teaching posts in Edinburgh until 1956, before moving to Rothesay for seven years.
In 1963 she returned to Perth to be nearer her mother and family and took up a teaching post for three years at Perth High School, before moving to Kilgraston School in 1966 until her retirement in 1977
In her retirement she became very involved with Birnam and the Birnam Institute. An ardent fan of Beatrix Potter, she was also involved with the Beatrix Potter Garden in Dunkeld.
She also wrote a biography of the most famous Scottish fiddler and dancie of the 18th Century, Niel Gow.
Entitled Niel Gow’s Inver, the book also detailed a history of the village of Inver in the parish of Little Dunkeld in Perthshire around the time he lived there in the late 1700s. She is survived by her nephews Jackson and John Robb.
John said: “She loved music and she enjoyed sharing that. She could be quite spirited and was always a very social person who enjoyed company and a party.”