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room - but Sue duly carried out the task and thus gained huge credit and
respect from her contemporaries for not dropping them into deeper
trouble.
An irrepressible sense of fun and adventure extended to a one university
career at Bristol and, apart from the serious business of gaining a good
degree, she also gained the affections of a certain
Eric Puffett, who was the Army Staff Instructor to the
OTC - the Ofocers Training Corps. She gained the
Queens Commission as an Ofocer in the TA.
Sue and Eric were married in 1987 by her father - the
Rev Edwin Chubb - and they forged a lifestyle based
in this village as a formidable husband and wife
team of thatchers. Their
relationships with the clients for whom they
worked often developed into enduring
friendships. Sue was immersed in the sense of
community that this lovely village cultivated. She
was interested in the lives and fortunes of others
and the door of Mole Cottage seemed forever open for tea and chat.
She served as a Governor at the village school and took her
responsibilities very seriously. We all learned a great deal about her
sensitivity as eventually she searched for and found her birth family and
how she spent time developing relationships with her blood siblings
having been put up for adoption at birth. Her birth Mum and Dad went
on to marry and have three further children 3 Neil, Guy and Karen. For
her, it was all part of the human condition - forging friendships and
sharing unconditionally. Meanwhile her adoptive family whom she had
known all her life - Mary, David, and Alison - remained as close as ever
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