Marilyn Shapiro, 76, was born in St Annes, the daughter of Dr Stanley Steele and his wife Hannah.

During her first marriage Marilyn lived in Hale before moving to Prestwich in 1977.

Her daughter Ilanah Fischer told the Jewish Telegraph: “When I was a kid, my mother did a cookery course at the Abraham Moss Centre.

“The centre specially bought a new oven so we could eat the food which she had cooked and brought home. At first she was making the food and giving it to other people at the centre. She told them that she was Jewish and couldn’t eat it.”

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