2.
OBITUARY
MRS DOREEN BOARDMAN
Early this year, Doreen Boardman died,
having borne a long illness with the courage
and quiet determination that so many of us
remember her for. Her energies and efforts
on our behalf in such battles as the Friends
of Epping Forest are well known, but this
was but a small part of the many activities
in which she engaged to help the community
through her Church, the Girl Guides or the
Essex Field Club.
In the Field Club she will be long rememb-
ered for her tremendous enthusiasm for all
its many activities, but it is for her work
with the fungi that she was best known and
upon which I personally can best comment.
I first met Mrs Boardman in 1969 as a
young, budding mycologist and her encourag-
ement and knowledge was of tremendous help
to me as it was to many others. She had,
as the Recorder of Fungi for the Club, dilig-
ently and patently, recorded, listed and
published the ever expanding number of species
of fungi in the County, as well as leading
the popular Fungus Farays each year. As one
who now has this task, I can vouch for the
work this must have entailed during the
years she served as Recorder. Her card index
of species is a wonderfully complete and
lasting record not only of Fungi but of
Doreen Boardman herself.
I am thankful to have been her friend
and co-worker and along with so many others
will sadly miss that friendship.
Geoffrey Kibby.