Many remember print career

FLORRIE Thomas died on Tuesday, 9 August 2005 aged 98, almost the same age as the newspaper she came to love.
The Gazette will celebrate its centenary in three years and for most of its time had the benefit of the pedantic proof reading skills that Mrs Thomas displayed.
She was a person who worked quietly in the background but more than one journalist can recall those words: “What do you mean by this?”
She was among the first to be at hand to help at community functions in all manner of tasks at meetings and would help with suppers, working bees, help with historical society open days, and work on cataloguing.