Obituary: Margaret Packman

Margaret Packman, the former AOP and Sight Care chairman died suddenly aged 53.

In a career spanning over 30 years, Packman divided her time between private practice and hospital eye care. She took over her father's practice and purchased a second practice in the early 1990s as well as studying to qualify as a behavioural optometrist. She served as national chairman of the AOP in 1993-1994 and became an honorary member in 2003. She was Sight Care chairman from 1994-2001 and sat on the GOC for five years between 1991-1996.

Optometrist Bob Chappell said: 'Margaret had an enormous and insatiable enthusiasm for optometry and life in general, always busy supporting the profession that was her life but never without a smile for patients and colleagues alike. I had the privilege of seeing this at first hand at the many committee meetings we shared, as chairman of the AOP when I was president of the College, at the GOC and the College and AOP Benevolent Fund.