My mother, Mary Percy, who has died aged 102, worked hard to sustain her considerable family and was a talented amateur actor.Born Mary Taylor in Birkenhead, she was the seventh of eight children of Charles Taylor, a manager in a card manufacturers in Liverpool, and Ada (nee Campbell), a housewife. Mary experienced hardship early in life when her brother Charlie returned seriously injured from France in 1918, and her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM on June 20, 2016