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Penny Marrows (7 Mar 1951 - 14 Aug 2023)
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- Location
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- Date
- 1st Sep 2023
- Time
- 12.45pm
In loving memory of Penny Marrows who sadly passed away on 14th August 2023.
Penny was born on the 7th March 1951 at home in Rufforth near York. She was the third child of George and Mary Marrows and had three siblings, Susan, Danny and Jack. The family moved to a house in Tockwith built by her father on the site of a WW2 bomber plane crash. There she went to the local primary school, then to Millmount Grammar School for Girls in York. In her mid-twenty's Penny studied Three-dimensional Art and Design at York Tech. She went on to teach art to adults including in prisons in Yorkshire and London and at Claypenny in Easingwold. Penny met Tim in London in 1992 at an etching workshop in Brixton. They moved with their baby son Billy up north in 1994 where they settled in Sheriff Hutton. Penny was a sculptor, painter and printmaker, and loved her garden. She was a beloved wife, mother, sibling, aunt, great aunt, cousin and loved by all her friends. She will be sorely missed.
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Head, by Penny dating from when she was at Art College in York
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This little reclining figure started to crack a bit when we placed it on Penny's grave, what frost and rain, so it's now safe in my sitting room....though being reclaimed by nature
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Pencil drawing of Penny's mum Mary, by Penny
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Drawing of Rupert by Penny, I a sketchbook. At City Screen York there's a memorial exhibition of Penny's work. So many marvellously skilful drawings of family and friends. But I don't want to dismantle the sketchbooks, so will post selection on this site
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Penny's funeral was two years ago today. Her grave is looking beautiful, full of waving grasses, an enormous fennel,taller than the beech tree, which is also doing well. I think Penny would love the way it's a bit wild, but full of beautiful plants
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Hard to photograph, so you can't see the michaelmas daisies, mallow, lambs ears, Vibernum, verbena, lavender, Russian sage, two beautiful cistus(penny loved them), pink and white, wild strawberries, sage, rose campion.....
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As well as all sorts of little wild things poking through...
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Penny with Billy in Sheriff Hutton churchyard, April 2023. Tho very ill, Penny was still mobile, so she could go out and look at the view she loved towards Sheepclose Farm and the distant Wolds. Billy came up from London as much as possible to be with her
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Penny is buried in a beautiful woodland cemetery on the hill in the distance
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Penny would've been 74 today. She loved walking through woods, knew the names of all the wild flowers. It's as if she died yesterday.I can't believe she's gone, and went through all that ghastly illness. I really do feel her spirit in the places she loved
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Dear Penny, I remember all those times at Leemans Road when your infectious laugh brightened up the room and everyone around. I can still hear it unmistakably in my mind and it makes me smile.
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Our wedding day, beautiful ceremony in our sitting room, a year ago on 8th June 2023. Double celebration, Billy passed his driving test that morning
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18th March 2023, with Anna and Zoe
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Penny would have been 73 today, 7th March
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British Museum February 2017
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Pastel, from a sketchbook, 2017
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Page from sketchbook Charcoal drawing done on the spot from observation
Pastel. Page from a sketchbook
Pastel, from a sketchbook
Head, by Penny dating from when she was at Art College in York
This little reclining figure started to crack a bit when we placed it on Penny's grave, what frost and rain, so it's now safe in my sitting room....though being reclaimed by nature
Pencil drawing of Penny's mum Mary, by Penny
Drawing of Rupert by Penny, I a sketchbook. At City Screen York there's a memorial exhibition of Penny's work. So many marvellously skilful drawings of family and friends. But I don't want to dismantle the sketchbooks, so will post selection on this site
Penny's funeral was two years ago today. Her grave is looking beautiful, full of waving grasses, an enormous fennel,taller than the beech tree, which is also doing well. I think Penny would love the way it's a bit wild, but full of beautiful plants
Penny with Billy in Sheriff Hutton churchyard, April 2023. Tho very ill, Penny was still mobile, so she could go out and look at the view she loved towards Sheepclose Farm and the distant Wolds. Billy came up from London as much as possible to be with her
Penny would've been 74 today. She loved walking through woods, knew the names of all the wild flowers. It's as if she died yesterday.I can't believe she's gone, and went through all that ghastly illness. I really do feel her spirit in the places she loved
1st September 2023
August 14th 2018
14th August 2016
Our wedding day, beautiful ceremony in our sitting room, a year ago on 8th June 2023. Double celebration, Billy passed his driving test that morning
18th March 2023, with Anna and Zoe
Penny would have been 73 today, 7th March
British Museum February 2017
February 2021
Penny and Zoe, Austwick, February 16th 2023
February 14th 2023, Austwick. With Zoe
Austwick, Yorkshire Dales, February 13th 2023. With Zoe and Anna Just before penny had her first scan.
In Sheriff Hutton Churchyard
23rd January 1994 St Thomas's Hospital London
Crete 2018
with Susan Morecambe 2016
January 2022
January 2023 Scarborough
Scarborough December 2015
North Wales, September 2019
Sandsend July 2019
2016
Charcoal drawing by Penny 2017
With Danny, St Alban's 2016
Crete 2018
July 2022, near Scarborough
Rydal Water, Lake District 2022. Our last ever camping trip. Incredibly hot, needed no encouragement to wild swim in that water in the background. We both loved swimming in the sea as well, at any opportunity.
Balham 1993, early days.... the little angel is Rhiannon, the daughter of Dave and Miranda, location Nick Edwards flat.We all met at Lambeth Adult Education Centre in Brixton,and we stayed in touch over the years. Only yesterday had lovely telephone calls
At Tockwith with George and Mary, and I think her friend Zoe
Penny and her mum Mary in Sheriff Hutton churchyard.Penny was a devoted daughter, and after her father George died in 1995,the house at Tockwith built by him was just too big.She moved just up the road from us in SH until her death in 2006.
November 2022, my 70th birthday,a nostalgic trip back to Brixton, where we'd met in a printmaking workshop in 1992
Staithes summer '93. Caravan holiday on cliff edge near Whitby with Penny's mum and dad, and all the family in several caravans. Wonderful, memorable, stressful(!)....
In front of our cottage in Sheriff Hutton 1995, just moved in.if I'd lived there on my own it would've stayed the same.Penny always had good ideas re maximising the space, she was brilliant at the ergonomics of interior design
When Billy was 6 months old we house sat in Tarbes SW France,feed tortoise water hydrangea etc.Travelled to nearby town,missed last train,spent night in a wooded garden of abandoned house, dry at first, starry sky, then RAIN.Luckily cardboard nearby
Paris in the Springtime Easter 92.somewhere en route to Paris from London the bus stopped for a break. We were a bit "distracted",the bus started to set off without us,fortunately a passenger noticed our absence...this proved to be fairly typical.
After we first met in 1992 a big finger pointed down from in high and said "Hey you two, get on with it! There's going to be a shortage of decent jazz guitarist/composers in 20-odd years' time..."
Our neighbour pat gave us her recliner, Penny could get sort of comfortable on it for a little bit at least, and we'd marvel at the clouds and gaze up into the birch, and savour the Daphne and Philadelphus. These were lovely moments
Penny was so determined as her mobility got worse and getting up and down our stairs became an ordeal. She made sure she damned well got out into the garden HER garden created lovingly and with great knowledge and skill over 28 years.
Throughout her illness Penny tried to keep her physical independence finding very inventive ways as her mobility got worse.Typical Penny, doing exercises holding onto a very stable chair that Mike lent us.She made me promise to carry on doing pilates
The two registrars who performed the ceremony were lovely, one of them cried. Afterwards the witnesses were joined by their partners and we went upstairs to the bedroom to celebrate with bubbly and delicious plates of food
We got married in June in our sitting room with friends Mike and Lyn and Billy as witnesses.We thought it would be just a formality but the occasion was very moving and emotional
Sisters 11th June 2023
Penny in the churchyard at Sheriff Hutton,early July 2023.In the distance the Howardian Hills and Mowthorpe Garden of Rest where she now lies at peace
Sheriff Hutton March 2023
Billy, I don't know how you managed to plan Penny's funeral with me at same time as composing beautiful special piece to be performed at it,while also nipping back down to London to record new tracks and mix for your CD in memory of mum
Penny and Teresa
We always thought that Penny’s artworks of the Wolds were better than David Hockney’s! And she did them before his … So very sad to have lost ou r dear dear friend Penny. WE ALL LOVED HER.
From the edge of the hill where Penny's buried you can see south to the church at Sheriff Hutton,itself a hill village,beyond that a further 10 miles to York Minster.West of York lies Tockwith where Penny grew up.Penny loved walking on the Howardian Hills
Thankyou everyone who brought flowers to the funeral.they were exactly what Billy and me envisaged and more.Ive walked to the grave and back each day7 miles.Tho being baked dry and fading,they are still full of marvellous subtle colours.Will post close-up
January 2023
Pie, I've just found this photo of one of those impromptu meetings....guess where, Waitrose. Dec 2022
Penny's defiance,bravery and feisty,often angry independence in the face of pain that was very difficult to control and dramatically affected mobility, broke my heart but inspired me to somehow find the strength I needed to care for her
This is the little sculpture,a reclining figure, that we've placed on the grave along with all the beautiful flowers everyone brought along
A sculpture from Penny I will always treasure.
Cromwell House, Tockwith - the wall that Penny built …
Penny’s family gathering - Sandsend near Whitby
Billy,you were always a wonderful son to your mother.But during her illness you performed miracles to make sure you could be with her as much as possible, and support me.
Penny and Tim in Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden 2019
Penny and Billy on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh in 2016
Penny and the Morrison’s in Haddington 2021
Our last visit to Penny in April
Montmartre 1993....Paris in the springtime. Our first trip abroad.I am completely consumed by an overwhelming feeling of grief and anger that my beautiful Penny has been taken from all who so dearly loved her by such a cruel disease
Siblings
Penny & Tim in Poitiers at the serrurerie restaurant
From Helen and Bryan
From Helen and Bryan
From Helen and Bryan
Sharing a joke with Rosa
Walking in 2017...
Penny in Devon in 2008
Penny & Tim camping in Devon in 2008
The Marrows-Morrisons in West Yorkshire in 2007
Penny in 2006
Penny apparently sharing a joke with her great niece Rosa.
2001 - Penny's 50th birthday
6th Dec 2020 - All Covid guidance was followed at all times.
Summer trip to the Conservation Area.
London 15.11.22
London 15.11.22
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