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Mavis Johns obituary
Mavis Johns was an infant school teacher who was much involved in the musical world of her local community
Mavis Johns was an infant school teacher who was much involved in the musical world of her local community
CathyJohns
Wed 10 Mar 2021 12.32 EST
Last modified on Wed 17 Mar 2021 15.21 EDT
My mother, Mavis Johns, who has died aged 95, was a teacher who brought her passion for music-making to her community in north Wales.
Mavis was born in Battersea, south London, to Dorothy (nee Chainey) and her husband, Harry Bedingfield, who worked in the building trade. Her older sister, Kathleen, died as a teenager, and she had a younger sister, June. Mavis’s Roman Catholic upbringing in Essex informed her long life and work. At St Angela’s school in Forest Gate and then the Dominican Convent school in Chingford, she was talented and adventurous, enlisting friends in escapades that got them into frequent trouble with the nuns.