FORMER parish council clerk Elizabeth Harding, who died of a heart attack last month, had suffered a stroke in 1999, which left her wheelchair bound.
She and husband Ron, both aged 65, and married for 41 years, had moved to Sutton Benger in 1971. She was parish clerk in the 1980s.
Mrs Harding took a job with the Wiltshire Health Authority and later became secretary to an orthopedic doctor at the old Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon.
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Mr Harding said: "Elizabeth was a wonderful woman and very determined not to let her stroke ruin her life.
"The doctors told us she was going to be brain-dead after the stroke and would never be able to walk.
"She was determined to walk down the aisle for our son Jonathon's wedding in 2000 and that is exactly what she did.
"She also taught herself how to write again so that she could carry on doing her crosswords, which she loved."
The couple, who enjoyed travelling, started going on holiday again again and eventually bought a holiday home on the remote island of Kerkennah in Tunisia.
They visited their holiday home several times every year and Mrs Harding loved to spend her days sitting in the garden, working out puzzles.
She died on February 27 following a heart attack.
Mrs Harding wanted an environmentally friendly funeral and she was buried at the Memorial Woodlands Cemetery in Alveston, Bristol, on Saturday. She was buried in a sea grass coffin that will decompose.
Mr Harding has asked for donations in his wife's memory to be made to either the British Heart Foundation or to the Stroke Association.
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