Wendy Witter (28 February 1936 – 12 March 2024) was a public servant and charity worker from Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire, England.

Biography

Witter was born in

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. She attended Scunthorpe High School before starting an apprenticeship with

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in London. She returned to Scunthorpe to work in the family window-cleaning business. Wendy moved with husband David moved to Barton-upon-Humber in 1968. In the following decades Wendy worked as a school governess for St Hugh's Special School in Scunthorpe and

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. She was a member of various public and consumer boards including the Gas Consumers' Council. She was an awarded an MBE in the

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whilst serving as Chairman of the Humberside Committee for the Employment of Disabled People. She served as the Mayor of Barton-upon-Humber in 1976, 1996, and 2006. In 2005 Witter was appointed Director of Age UK in North Lincolnshire. She was the Director of the charity Voluntary Action North Lincolnshire from October 2008 until her retirement in October 2014. In July 2019 she was given one of the two annual awards by the Barton-upon-Humber Civic Society for her decades of public service in the town.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Witter, Wendy 1936 births 2024 deaths People from Barton-upon-Humber Councillors in Lincolnshire Members of the Order of the British Empire Women councillors in England People from Scunthorpe