Career
She served as continuity announcer from the launch of the original Midlands regional independent television station, ATV. She was one of four original announcers, the others being Arthur Adair, Peter Cockburn and Shaw Taylor. She was particularly associated with Tingha and Tucker, the ATV programme for children, which ran from 1962 to 1970. She hosted the show as Auntie Jean.
The show"s fan club was so successful that ATV couldn"t cope with the volume of mail and it had to be closed down.
The Sunday edition of the programme was notable for its religious content, with Auntie Jean reading bible stories to the two koalas. From the early 1970s she lived in Ibiza.
She died aged 91 in Lichfield,Staffordshire,United Kingdom on the 26 May 2012.
