A BRAMPTON archery champion’s legacy will live on in a memorial fund in her name.
Joyce Kiddy, from Garden Drive, was first ever woman to represent Great Britain in field archery, at 1969’s world championships.
She went on to represent her country at three more championship events. Her husband Albert has won the Scorton Silver Arrow, the oldest sporting trophy in Britain, twice.
Their daughters Lynda and Michelle have both represented their country in the sport - and granddaughter Amy Oliver was part of Team GB’s archery squad in the London 2012 Olympics.
Joyce died in April. But her legacy will live on in more than just her family’s outstanding archery success, after donations from Joyce’s funeral went to the John Hartfield Memorial Fund - now renamed the Hartfield Kiddy Memorial Fund.
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