Cathleen, or Cathy, Pedley was born on 6 June 1942 in Coventry, and married Frederick Jack Pedley in mid-1966. The couple had two daughters, Sarah and Helen. Cathleen died on 24 July 1988, aged just 46.
Her headstone contains the beautiful quotation, adapted from Shakespeare:
She was our own
And we as rich in having such a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.