A MEMORIAL service will be held to celebrate the optimism and hope of a Redditch teacher who died of cancer last month, aged 58.

Mary Stevens, of Lodge Park, who taught at St Peter's C of E Middle School, now Ipsley C of E Middle School, for 20 years, died on September 14.

The service takes place at St Peter's Church, Ipsley, at 2.30pm on Sunday, November 11.