'Much-loved' headteacher who ran village school for 26 years dies aged 97
A much-loved village school headteacher known to generations of children simply as 'Miss Carter' has died in her 98th year.
Mrs Ida Owen was head of Stottesdon Church of England Primary School for 26 years, retiring in July 1986.
The funeral is at Telford Crematorium on October 9 at 12.30pm, with a post-funeral reception at Cleobury North Village Hall.
She hailed from Cleobury North, and went to teacher training college in Tottenham soon after the war, and would tell how she would play darts in the pub with Tottenham Hotspur footballers.
She started teaching in 1947 at Highley Infants School and then in 1952 went to Burwarton School where she worked until taking over as headmistress at Stottesdon in 1960.
