Who Was Gertrude Longhurst?

In the centre of Ewell, next to Party Affairs and opposite Eastons the estate agents, is a little garden with couple of benches and a few flower beds, currently planted with some rather fetching blue pansies. A plaque in the centre of the main bed proclaims it to be the Gertrude Longhurst Memorial Garden, dating from 1954.

But who was Gertrude Longhurst? Well, a little digging has revealed that she was married to Stanley Longhurst at the time of her death in February 1954 -- and Bemused is wondering whether they were perhaps part of, or involved with, Longhurst's funeral directors, also local. Bemused will keep digging... (and will post a photo at some point)