MBE for PE woman

Nora Whitham (maiden name Wing King), a retired nurse born and bred in Port Elizabeth, is the first South African of Chinese descent to earn an MBE from the Queen of England. The citation is for nursing services and work in Bradford, where Nora has lived for nearly 29 years. Nora is now a lay canon at Bradford Cathedral. She left South Africa in 1960 and later married Englishman John Whitham. Her father used to own Wing King Grocers, in Walmer, which was demolished in the 1970s.