MORCOM, Jennifer Rosemary
As Jennifer Rosemary Kent, she was born at Ipswich in September 1934, daughter of Ralph Leonard Kent (16 August 1908-1987), a manager for a corn feed merchant, and his wife Vera Muriel née Shinglar (13 August 1908-2004), who married at Ipswich in 1932 and in 1939 were living at 166 Sidegate Lane, Ipswich. She attended Ipswich School of Art and developed a real talent for art. Her professional career was in nursing and she worked at Anglesea Rd hospital and then in mental health nursing at St Clements Hospital, Ipswich. Jennifer married Enrique R. Taub-Y-Longue (1929-1959), a refugee from Franco’s Spain and they had a daughter Jennifer Manuela (Taub-Y-) Longue, born at Ipswich in 1957. Jennifer, married secondly at Ipswich in 1960, Peter G. Morcom and lived at 8 Beechcroft Road, Ipswich. As Jennifer Morcom, she exhibited at the Ipswich Art Club from 54 Marlborough Road, Ipswich in 1979 'Attitudes'. Jennifer Rosemary Morcom died at Ipswich on 18 February 2019.