Tricia’s amazing paradise isle life

TRICIA MORGAN

Ministers join hundreds of mourners to pay homage to Oldham woman
HUNDREDS of people have attended a memorial service in the British Virgin Islands for a former Chadderton woman who founded a primary school there.

Inspirational Tricia Morgan was principal of Century House Montessori School which she opened in Tortola 1998. Government ministers were among those who attended the service following her death, aged 50, from cancer.

Tricia attended St Alban’s School and left Oldham when she was 20 to become a secretarial assistant in Bermuda.

Her sister Julie Laverty said: “When she left she had never been abroad, she had never been on a plane. It was quite a big step at 20. From that point on she never did anything but make the whole family proud.”

Tricia landed her job as a personal assistant at the Bermuda Biological Station. She met her husband, Ken, an investment banker, on the sub-tropical island and their daughter Brittany is now 18.

“She started to train as a Montessori teacher as she had always had an interest in children’s development,” said Julie.

The family moved to the British Virgin Islands in 1997 and Tricia started a small school at the back of her local church, later commissioning her own school building.

“The school will carry on,” said Julie.

“There were hundreds of people at her memorial service - including two government ministers - because she did make a difference to the community.”

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