ANYONE passing Veronica Farnell s Thornton house always got a friendly greeting, and her bright bunting was a cheery sight in the village. Now tributes have been paid to Veronica, a Thornton resident for 70 years, who has died after a short illness, aged 88. She was born in 1932 and lived at Heap Lane, Undercliffe, attending St Mary s School. Her mother died in 1943 when Veronica was 11, and her father left the Army to look after his four daughters. In an interview with Bradford photographer Mark Davis when she was 83, Veronica looked back on her wartime childhood. Dad was a soldier looking after girls. He was never an untidy man and it was the same with us girls. If we d been lads we d all have been in the Army, she said.