[Originally published 20 September – church service took place Thursday 15 September.
[Image: Dame of the Most Venerable Order of St John Ambulance Lorraine Glover and Knight of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem Dr Iain Nicholson at memorial service for Queen Elizabeth II at St Paul’s Cathedral, Sale. Photo taken by Stefan Bradley.]
SALE residents Lorraine Glover and Dr Iain Nicholson joined more than 100 mourners at St Paul’s Cathedral to remember The Queen.
Knight of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem Dr Iain Nicholson said he was very sad to hear about the death of the Queen.
“When I was in the army, The Queen was my boss, from 1958 to 1974,” Dr Nicholson said.
Dr Nicholson said he admired The Queen’s “service and loyalty”.
Dame of the Most Venerable Order of St John Ambulance Lorraine Glover said she admired The Queen’s faith, and that she was a beautiful lady.
“She’s such an inspiration to everybody, and I honestly thought she was going to live to 100. I really did,” Ms Glover said.
“Well, God took her. He said she’s finished her job, and I’m sure she was happy to go to him.”
Recalling The Queen’s 1954 visit to Sale, Ms Glover said she was in school at the time.
“We had practised so much to do a display for her, but she didn’t come to where we had the display,” she said.
Luckily, Ms Glover still got the chance to see The Queen that day, like many Gippslanders did.
“We saw her come down the street and she went to the council chambers,” she recalled.
