KENNEDY, Elizabeth

1929 - 2023

As Elizabeth Ann Ogden, she was born at Mill Hill, North London in 1929 the third of four children of William Edward Ogden (1897-1990), an accountant, and his wife Dorothy Ethel née Hardy (1901-1987), who married at Hackney in 1923. During the Second World War, Liz's local school was evacuated to the Cotswolds, and she became a boarder whilst the family home moved firstly to Ross-on-Wye and in 1945, to Radlett in Hertfordshire. Liz, as she was known, studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Helen Gaskell (1906-2002), then described at the time as the ‘best living oboist’. Liz was introduced to Suffolk, and particularly Waldringfield by her paternal grandparents, during her formative years even before starting school and had a family tradition of going to Waldringfield for family holidays. Liz married at Ipswich on 31 December 1976, her long-time friend and widower Douglas Neil Kennedy (1893–1988), Director of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Elizabeth was aged 48 and Douglas 83. Both were keen on music and the arts and on sailing their yacht 'Janora' on the River Deben at Waldringfield. After the death of her husband, Liz remained active in village life whilst living at Deck House, Cliff Road, Waldringfield, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. She would be present at most functions at the Village Hall including the supervision of her own Art Class, manning the door for the Winter Talks and contributing to the Waldringfield History Group of which she was a founder member. Elizabeth Kennedy died at Foxgrove Care Home in Felixstowe, Suffolk on 22 December 2023, aged 94.

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