Prim's prize-winning cakes will be remembered

Hundreds of Brownies and Guides in Uckfield would have had the late Prim Frost as their Brown Owl or Guide Captain and even more people in the town would probably have sampled her prize-winning cakes.

Mrs Frost (pictured), who died last week aged 75 after a short illness, will be remembered by many for the influence she had on them as they were growing up and she will be remembered too for all the fund-raising she has done over the years.

Her full name was Primrose but she always hated to be called that and most people knew her as Prim. Her funeral was due to take place yesterday at Holy Cross Church and be followed by cremation at Tunbridge Wells.

Mrs Frost, a widow, leaves three children Karen Colwell, Alan Frost and Julie Taws and three grandchildren, Emma, Amy and David.

Daughter Mrs Colwell said that her mother was a Guide herself as a child but started a Brownie pack when her girls were young and as they grew up and joined the Guides she moved with them, remaining a Guider for more than 30 years.

She was one of the people who raised the funds to build the Guide headquarters in Hempstead Lane and her late husband Len, who died in 1991, helped build them.

After leaving the Guides Mrs Frost joined the Trefoil Guild for ex-Guide and Brownie leaders and helped raise money for district funds and for other charities but she carried on as badge secretary for the Guides running a shop from her home in The Mount on the Church Coombe Estate. She later moved to a flat in Regency Close.

With her sister, June Chatfield, Mrs Frost was a member of the Uckfield Day Centre and the pair helped raise the money for the day centre to buy their current premises, the former library, at the top of the Luxford car park.

She was also a member of the Allotment Holders and Cottage Gardeners Association and won a trophy for her cake-making six times.

Chairman of the day centre executive committee Mr Ken Cunningham said Mrs Frost had always been a stalwart worker for the day centre and was famous for her cakes. 'She was a great believer in helping people all the time. She was a real gem.'

Mrs Margaret Eaves who was district Guide commissioner until earlier this year said Mrs Frost was an 'absolute tower of strength, always there to help when needed.'