Toussi Walton (4 Nov 1928 - 31 Mar 2024)

In loving memory of Toussi Ghadimi Walton who sadly passed away on 31st March 2024.

Born in Tus, near Mashad Northern Iran, she left university in Tehran in her early 20’s to travel to Europe as part of an Iranian government scheme to modernise their healthcare by training Nurses and Midwives in modern practices. We were lucky that she landed in Kidderminster rather than Paris or Rome. For during her time there she met and eventually married her Ronnie in 1955.

They were lucky to be able to spend the next 50 years together, after a brief return to Iran they returned in 1960 and spent almost 45 of those happy years on Compton Road, Pedmore, Stourbridge.

There together until Ronnie passed in 2005.

The long and fruitful relationship with Ronnie was mirrored by an equal one working as Staff Nurse first in the Casualty at Corbett Hospital before finishing her NHS career at the A&E at Russell’s Hall. Helping countless people manage their unexpected visit to the casualty with a strength of character that belied her size.

In between she was mother, and mentor, to her three children Jane, Paul and Soraya.

She timed her retirement well to allow her to take on the duties of grandma Toussi for what became 8 grandchildren and a little later a brace of great grandchildren.

After Ronnie’s passing she eventually settled into a new life at Elizabeth House, Lye making new friends as she always did whilst continuing her role as mom, grandma and great grandma.

Whilst going to the reception one evening in late June ‘23 to practise her hobby of people watching she fell and broke her leg. The experience was draining but she did recover but with very limited mobility and a desperate desire to get up and out of bed to practise her other hobby coffee and cake that wasn’t to be.

Remember her as that loving little lady who had time and love for all whilst carrying a lot of sadness in her heart for of those who she had loved, many of whom she had not been able to speak to before they died. The only minor benefit of Covid was with the assistance of the internet it shrank the world and allowed her a fleeting glimpse of the family she in Iran.