One of Llangollen’s best-known personalities, former local vet and charity organiser Sandra Woodhall, has died at the age of 80.
One of her most memorable achievements was as a founder of the Llangollen Round Challenge, an often gruelling test of endurance in which hundreds of people from across the UK and abroad run or walk their way around a 35-mile circuit of the hills surrounding the town.
The amount raised for Cancer
Research UK (CRUK) by the challenge has climbed steadily from £33,000 to last
year's total of almost £120,000 which was boosted by government returns on
charity donations.
Sandra was born in the USA of an American father and brought up in the Home Counties.
She qualified as a vet in London and came to practice and live in Llangollen in the late 1970s.
The practice was based at Siamber Wen and Sandra retired in the late 2000s.
She and her husband Richard have two children and three grandchildren.
Sandra was chairman of CRUK in Llangollen for 20 years during which time she set up the Llangollen Round Challenge, which is held every three years, with her friend Judy Smith.
Paying tribute to her, Judy said: “Perhaps her greatest legacy was the Challenge and she was just fantastic to work with on that one.
“I have truly never known anybody more reliable in that if we decided to do something, she never ever forgot or delayed - she'd have it done before you had time to turn round. Sandra was a really remarkable person.
“She knew and was friends with so many people in the town. She was what I would call a people's person, she had empathy with people, and from her early days as a vet in town to her later commitments in so many different fields, she always inspired people's respect and loyalty. Sandra was remarkable and a great loss to Llangollen.”
Sandra was a member of Llangollen Inner Wheel and also on the Floral Committee of the Llangollen Eisteddfod.
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