Dilys Ling - obituary

Dilys Ling (nee Hibbert) passed away on January 2, just six days after her 69th birthday, at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after a bravely fought 12-year battle against cancer.

Born at Mill Hill, London, Dilys won a scholarship to Westonbirt Girls School. After returning to Haywards Heath Grammar School for A levels, she studied ophthalmic optics at the Northampton College of Science and Advanced Technology, London. There she met her husband Mike and qualified as a Fellow of the British Optical Association and a Fellow of the Spectacle Maker's Company.

She married Mike at the St Nicholas Church, North Walsham and after some years working for Cecil Amey Opticians in Norwich, she joined Mike at their North Walsham practice, RM Ling Optometrists, where she worked until illness forced her retirement in 1999.