Hazel Rennie

Hazel died in the summer of 2016 after a slow illness over the previous year. She had been a member of WILPF for around 35 years and introduced many women from Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to our organisation, including myself. She spent much time living there welcoming women from many lands and stayed at Aldermaston at every opportunity.

She was a poet, writing mostly political, sometimes angry poems but often with humour, as well as poems about the natural world in its mystery and beauty, and the sorrows of exploitation of different kinds.

She remained politically active continuing to write letters to Presidents, Prime Ministers and MPs, when she was unable to go to demonstrations or to the camps.

At her funeral many of her WILPF friends, Greenham/Aldermaston friends and local action groups spoke about how she had influenced their lives. Her husband Jock has always been a great supporter of her peace work and of WILPF, and has welcomed the many women who have stayed at their home over the years.