Elsie Hancox

Elsie, formerly of Juxon Street, died in February this year at the age of 92. She was born in the village of Bloxham and started work in service at the house of the headmaster of the public school there where she first met her husband Ron. Eventually they married in 1937. After the war Ron got a job as a scout at St. Johns College, where he worked until he retired. They lived in Juxon Street, before later moving to Leckford Road. Elsie worked in several large houses in North Oxford. She was also a key member of the Mothers’ Union and Ron became a Church warden at St. Barnabas. In later years she had a succession of budgies to keep her company, the last of which spoke with an uncanny echo of Elsie’s voice. In 2003 Elsie moved to ‘Shrublands’ where she was happy and well cared for.