A ‘DEDICATED’ teacher whose teaching career spanned four decades has died aged 86.
Blackburn-raised Joan Robson (nèe Forshaw) passed away peacefully with her family at her side on Sunday, January 17.
Her son Dominic said: “We are just really proud of who she was. Not just as a really wonderful mum but also as really inspirational and brilliant teacher.
“Joan inspired her students to have high academic standards, a love of language learning and broadened horizons.”
Born on July 25, 1934 in Failsworth, Joan went to school at former Notre Dame Grammar School, Blackburn, on Whalley Old Road from 1945 to 1950.
She completed her final year of education at a school in Liverpool before becoming the first in her family to go to university, studying French language and literature at Liverpool University and the Sorbonne in Paris, graduating with a first class honours degree in French.