A WOMAN who founded a school to educate her daughter has died.

Doreen Logie, a committed Methodist and teacher who lived in Abberley Avenue, Stourport, passed away at the age of 88.

She was featured in the Shuttle/Times and News last July when more than 100 ex-pupils and staff from the Methodist English High School in Rangoon, Burma - which Mrs Logie started in 1946 - travelled to Stourport for a reunion with their former headteacher.

Mrs Logie was born in Madras, India, in the days of the British Raj and moved to Burma with her family as a teenager. She felt no schools in the country could offer her daughter Gillian, who was born in Burma, a satisfactory education so she founded a new one.

By the time Mrs Logie was expelled from Burma in 1964 by the incoming Communist regime, the school had more than 4,000 pupils.

When she came to Britain she settled in Stourport due to her husband's work commitments and Mrs Logie spent 20 years teaching at Areley Common First School, where she taught her two grandchildren until her retirement in 1987.

She was also the organist at Stourport Methodist Church for many years, and gave piano lessons until a serious car accident forced her to stop.

Her daughter Gillian McMillan, 61, said: "She was well-known in the Areley Common and Astley area and will be sadly missed by many."

Mrs Logie's funeral takes place on Tuesday at Worcester Crematorium at 12.30pm.