A TYPIST from East Lancashire was awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Stunned Jean Whiteley, who had worked for the Department of Social Security in Blackburn for 40 years, almost cried when she received notice of the award.
Jean, a Sunday school teacher and elder at Revidge Fold United Reformed Church for many years, had also paid regular visits to the elderly in hospital.
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