Terry was born in Hammersmith Hospital and lived in Shepherds Bush until the start of the war, when she was evacuated to Maidenhead while her Mum, Flo, stayed in London to do her bit for the war effort.  
 
She lived with Mr and Mrs Butler and their daughter Marge, and became quite a country girl, remembering fondly the times her glamorous Mum managed to visit from London and take her to tea.
 
After the war she returned to London and met Margaret and Betty, who quickly helped her become a city girl again.    The three became lifelong friends.
 
Terry went to school at the Sacred Heart Convent.   She would often talk about how beautiful the school was and loved her time there.  
 
As she grew older, Terry loved to go dancing and with Margaret and Betty would spend Saturday nights at the Hammersmith Palais Dancing to Big Band Music or Rock & Roll.    On one of those nights, when she was sixteen, Terry met Ron who was to become her husband. 
 
When they got married they lived with Ron’s parents in a large flat in Acton, where they had their first daughter Kim.   When they were expecting their second child Terry was set on moving into their own home and they moved to Hillingdon for the arrival of their second daughter, Gaynor.
 
Three and a half years later, they moved to Langley for the arrival of their third daughter Melanie.
 
The family stayed in Langley while the girls grew up.   Terry and Ron were very sociable and there were lots of party nights, during which Kim, Gaynor and Mel remember sitting at the top of the stairs with a plate of crisps and a glass of lemonade!
 
Terry loved to travel, and the family went on holidays to Spain when the girls were still quite young, driving down through France and across the Pyrenees to Salou in the Costa Dorada.
 
Cornwall was another favourite holiday destination, and many holidays there were spent with Margaret, who now had two daughters, Mandy and Julia.   The two families have always been very close, with Kim Gaynor and Mel calling Margaret Auntie Marg (which she really doesn’t like!) and regarding Mandy and Julia as cousins.
 
Once the girls were all settled at school, at about 30 years old, Terry started building her career.   She was good with figures and had previously had various roles in company financial departments. She worked her way up to Finance Director of a publishing company, spending several years in a job  she really loved.
 
Another love of hers was tennis, and she has always avidly watched Wimbledon and the other major tournaments.   She and Gaynor both played well, joining a local club through which they played regular matches.   On a more casual basis, they sometimes played doubles with Ron and Kim, which was entertaining mostly because Ron was highly competitive but not as good a player, and Kim could hardly hit the ball!
 
Christmas was always a big celebration in the Scott household, and a very important time for the family to be together.    So much so that Terry could not bear to think of anyone being alone on Christmas Day.   Kim, Gaynor and Mel would quite often sit down to Christmas dinner with one or two strangers at the table, their dad looking very confused over who these people were and where they had come from!
 
Terry was an only child and always wanted a big family, initially hoping for at least six children although she soon decided her three girls were plenty to be going on with!   She was so happy to have three grandchildren, Ellie, Lucy and Tass;  three step-grandchildren, Ashley, Woody and Jojo; then more recently five great grandchildren, Lola, Charlie, Betsy, Henry and Ronnie;  and two step great-grandchildren, Albert and Wilfred!   She got her big family after all.
 
When Ellie and Lucy were small she enjoyed spending as much time with them as she could, taking them on holidays every year, usually to Bournemouth.   Then when Tass was born in Cyprus she visited several times a year as he was growing up.    In recent years she loved having her great grandchildren visit her.
 
Included in her family still were Margaret and Betty.   Betty had emigrated to Canada after she got married but had stayed in touch and in recent years had travelled to England a few times to see Terry and Margaret.   A few years ago, Terry and Margaret decided plan a visit to Betty so they flew off to Canada for a great adventure including a trip to Niagara Falls.   It was a fantastic holiday for all of them.
 
Terry will be remembered by work colleagues, all her friends and her family as interesting, quirky and fun to be with.   She had a great sense of humour, which she still retained even through her illness and the dementia she lived with over the last 18 months.  
 
She was much loved and will be forever in all our hearts.