“September 10th 2020 should be remembered as a very sad day for St. Neots. Shockingly, in the early hours of the morning we lost one of the key pillars of our local community, Sue Jarrett, far before her time. Sue came to St. Neots at the end of the 1970s to start her career as a teacher. She met her husband Dave and they made their home in Eaton Socon.
She was involved in so many aspects of day-to-day life in St. Neots. Many of her former pupils will remember Sue from her years of teaching locally and her commitment to shaping young lives. Sue was passionate about local history and bringing the past to life. It seems such a cruel irony that she has now passed into that history at a young age. I can only hope that many years from now she will be remembered dearly for her invaluable contribution to St. Neots. Many will know Sue was the lynchpin of the Eatons Community Association and there can be hardly a resident who will not have had their life touched by her kindness and enthusiasm over the last three decades. In addition, Sue was heavily involved with the St. Neots Local History Society, the St. Neots Museum, the U3A, and the St. Neots Archive Group. Every organization that she participated in will be left with a massive hole to fill.
Sue was one of those people who get things done. Her attitude and work ethic are, sadly, increasingly rare. The immense amount of effort that she put into the town trail publications is just one example of how she achieved things, while others of us were still talking about them.
