Flora Wilson, a former teacher at Eastern Primary School in Broughty Ferry and member of Dundee Gaelic Choir, has died just days short of her 92nd birthday.
Mrs Wilson taught in the school’s infant department for 18 years and as an alto was a member of the choir that competed in the Mod.
One of her pupils at Eastern was Scotland rugby player Andy Nicol, and she took pride in his career in which he has moved on to commentating for the BBC.
Mrs Wilson was from Boarhills, near St Andrews, where her mother Elizabeth Maitland was the postmistress and her father Edward was gardener at Kenly Green House.
After the village school she went to Madras College, and her first job was at the post office followed by a spell as a librarian at St Andrews University.
When the Second World War broke out she joined the Wrens and served in London as a teleprinter operator.
With the ending of hostilities she returned home and decided to train as a teacher. It was at college in Dundee that she made friends with Margaret Wilson who introduced her to her brother James, whom she married at Boarhills in 1950.
Mrs Wilson, pictured, taught at schools in Fife before moving to Dundee. After a spell at Glebelands she was appointed to Eastern in 1964.
Music was her great love and she sang and played the piano. She was not a Gaelic speaker but she learned the language to sing and joined the Gaelic choir.
Mrs Wilson was encouraged to join the choir by a fellow teacher at Eastern School, Isabel Tait. When Mrs Wilson went to the Mod at Stornoway it was the first time she had flown.
Her friend Norman Robertson said she was an enthusiastic and popular member of the choir for many years.
Gardening was another hobby and she and husband James, a long-term elder at St Aidan’s Church who started its youth club, enjoyed many walking holidays in the Angus Glens, north-west Highlands and Austria.
Mrs Wilson is survived by three daughters and five grandsons.