Daisy Barclay died in November, just a few weeks after her 100th birthday.
Born in 1916 in the east end of London, Daisy Emma Barclay (née Hickey) was the youngest of seven children. After the death of her mother, when aged two, she was fostered by a Baptist couple in Cheshire. Through them she came to faith in Christ.
British Syrian Mission
She trained as a secretary and from the late 1930s worked for the British Syrian Mission (later MECO, recently merged with SIM-UK), which ran schools for girls in Syria and Lebanon. She retained a close, life-long interest in this mission.