{"id":83,"date":"2016-03-31T20:04:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harare\/?p=83"},"modified":"2016-03-31T20:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:04:58","slug":"betty-sylvia-sudgen-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harare\/2016\/03\/31\/betty-sylvia-sudgen-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Sylvia Sudgen Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Betty Sylvia Sudgen Obituary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Betty Sylvia Sudgen died on 21 January 2016.\u00a0 She was a member of SI Harare from 5 May 1958 until her death.\u00a0She was an honorary member of the club, an honour bestowed on her on completion of 40 years as a member.<\/p>\n<p>Betty qualified as a Veterinary Surgeon in July 1944 at the Royal Veterinary College in London where she met her future husband, Dick, who left veterinary college to join the RAF.\u00a0 They were married in April 1945 and their son Richard was born in February 1947. The family came to the then Rhodesia in December 1955 and Betty worked as the small animal practitioner with Pete Moll (an Onderstepoort graduate) who took care of the large animal work.\u00a0 After his return to South Africa Betty took over the practice with two other vets.\u00a0 They worked up the practice to a fully equipped surgery in a prime position in Harare with consulting rooms, dispensary, x-ray capability, two operating theatres and a large preparation room for animals on drips, etc.\u00a0 Betty also ran a small clinic at Ruwa, consulting early in the morning before going to the main surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Betty became a Soroptimist in May 1958 (not quite a founder member).\u00a0 She was club President in 1963\/64 and National President from 1973 to 1975.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998 SI Harare celebrated her 40 years of membership with Betty, giving a lunch in her honour.\u00a0 Richard has the gifts and signed cards she received on that occasion as well as her badges of membership, safely kept through all the years.<\/p>\n<p>Betty was always involved in the community.\u00a0 She received a Civil Defence Medal for work with the Women\u2019s Voluntary Service (WVS) during World War 2 \u2013 combining this work with being a student.\u00a0 In Zimbabwe, besides Soroptimism, she was an active member of the Women\u2019s Institute and received the first award of Woman in the Community for her work with the WI and Soroptimism.\u00a0 She was a Councillor in the Ruwa district where she and Dick lived in a house with a view far across the veld almost to Mrewa.\u00a0 She had, along with other Ruwa and Melfort residents, a great interest in the Melfort Glen Home for Elderly, involving her Soroptimist\u00a0club in the work for many years, although this interest passed latterly to SI Vabatsiri, Harare\u2019s second club.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999 Betty published a book entitled A Harvest of Memories, about the Ruwa and Melfort districts and people who lived there. Betty enjoyed walking around her garden accompanied by cats, dogs, peacocks, chicken and guinea fowls. Her house and garden were always available for Soroptimist functions and many an overseas visitor was entertained there to a lunch with club members.<\/p>\n<p>Dick died in July 2001 by which time Betty was semi-retired; she had kept her interest in the Ruwa clinic but no longer travelled to the main surgery.\u00a0 In July 2002, after being attacked and robbed in her home, she left Zimbabwe to live near her son in the Hook area of Hampshire.\u00a0 She lived in Jeffrey\u2019s House in Hook until December 2015 when she went into a care home for the last six weeks of her life.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to Richard Sugden for information, especially dates, concerning Betty\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betty Sylvia Sudgen Obituary Betty Sylvia Sudgen died on 21 January 2016.\u00a0 She was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Betty Sylvia Sudgen Obituary | News | Blog | Events | SI Harare<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Harare : Blog &amp; News : Betty Sylvia Sudgen Obituary : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Harare . 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