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Pam Hatcher obituary
Pam Hatcher was a reporter on Drapers Record magazine in the 1950s before leaving to raise a family
Pam Hatcher was a reporter on Drapers Record magazine in the 1950s before leaving to raise a family
GinaHeathcote
Wed 13 Jan 2021 11.05 EST
Last modified on Fri 29 Jan 2021 14.07 EST
My mother-in-law, Pam Hatcher, who has died aged 89, worked as a reporter on a fashion industry magazine until she became a full-time mother and later a primary school teacher.
Pam was born in Catford in south-east London, the second daughter of Alice (nee Phillips) and her husband, Ronald MacDonald, a stockbroker. The family moved to Orpington in Kent when Pam was young, and lived there throughout the second world war, during which a bomb landed at the end of the street and all windows in the family home were knocked out.