A WOMAN who worked tirelessly for the Guide movement has died suddenly at her home aged 88.

Edna Adams, who lived at Bewdley Hill, Kidderminster, was captain of the 13th Kidderminster Guide company for many years and was also a district commissioner.

She regularly took Guides from her company and also Kidderminster High School to camp, and took children on educational trips abroad.

Kidderminster-born Miss Adams, the sister of Fred Adams, the co-founder of solicitors Thursfield and Adams, worked for Britannic Insurance before training to become a teacher.

She worked at Kidderminster's Sladen School and also taught children with learning difficulties.

Her niece Elizabeth Pearcy said: " Without the Girl Guide camps she organised so many girls would never have had a holiday and without her many children would never have learnt to read so well or be engaged in other subjects.

"She used to give up her holiday time to take older children on educational trips abroad and she was also involved in voluntary work in the hospital and with the St John Ambulance Brigade during the war."

Muriel Wanklin, who was her lieutenant when she was a Guide captain, said: "I knew her for many years and she worked tirelessly on behalf of others. When she finished as captain I took over her role."

Miss Adams was a regular at Trinity Methodist Church's luncheon club, although she had been blind for the past two years.