Susan Ess

Susie, who lived in Cranham Street, died in August last year from cancer aged 56. Born in Oxford, she trained as a children’s nurse and moved to Jericho in 1983. Susie worked for many years in the crêche attached to Somerville College where she became well known to many Oxford parents. Later she was a manager of Freuds café in Walton Street and then housekeeper for a professor at Brasenose. Her partner for many years was Ben Fitzmaurice who lived across the street. Though she was ill for the last year of her life she never allowed it to get the better of her. Susie will be much missed by her family, as well as by her many friends who were evident at a well-attended funeral service at St Barnabas. The Ess name does, however, live on in Cranham Street, since her nieces Caroline and Nuala now live in her former house.