A TEACHER who introduced more than 2,000 children to school life in Latchford has died.

Barbara Eaton Lawrence taught at the former Bolton Infants School in Latchford and died last month at Three Bridges Care Home in Latchford, aged 89.

Her funeral was held at St Wilfrid's Church in Grappenhall on Friday where tributes were paid to her life.

She worked in a children's nursery at Burtonwood Air Base and care home in Padgate before training to be a teacher in Wales and Birmingham.

A eulogy read on Friday said: "Returning to Warrington in the late 1950s, she met her husband to be John Lawrence and after a brief courtship they married on January 3, 1959.

"They lived in Grappenhall and later Woolston.

"Barbara was appointed to the Bolton County School in Latchford where she was to supervise the pre-school infants for the next 30 years, thus giving the first experience of school to more then 2,000 children aged between four and five."

Barbara was widowed in 1982 and retired the following December.

Originally born in Liverpool, Barbara's family moved to a Government house in Warrington in 1940 after the family were bombed out following a German raid on Liverpool.