Former Thornhill teacher dies

A FORMER teacher and headmistress who taught who generations of children in Rotherham has died aged 98.

Miss Alice Capper, who taught in Thornhill and Masbrough, had been living in Walkey, where she was born in 1912, for 27 years before her death.

After completing a teacher training course in London, Miss Capper, the eldest of eight children, took up a teaching post at Thornhill Infants' School in about 1930. 

She remained at the school throughout the Great Depression and the Second World War.

Miss Capper was eventually promoted to the post of headmistress and remained at Thornhill until the opening of the new Rockingham Infants'  School  in  1966,  when she became the first head teacher there.

Following her retirement, she lived in Skegness for several years before moving back to Walkley.

Family mourners and friends were joined at her funeral by former pupils from Thornhill Infants' School and former colleagues from Rockingham Infants' School.