Wilfred & Lisa Tagg

About 1969 Squadron Leader Wilfred & Lisa-Beate Tagg moved into Chippins from Bradenham Beeches.

Wilfred became the treasurer of the Parochial Church Council (P.C.C.)

Hallmark 1986 Tribute to Wilf Tagg by Tim Timpest -

Hallmark April 1986. A Tribute to Squadron Leader Wilfred S. Tagg by Tim Tempest

Squadron Leader S. Tagg, in common with several others, settled in Lacey Green after a life of service in the Royal Air Force. Sadly he left us on 15 March.

Wilf’s quiet, unassuming manner, which concealed a quick wit and shrewdness of judgement will be greatly missed by those who were privileged to count themselves amongst his friends and colleagues. His contribution to Church affairs particularly during the time he held office as the Treasurer on the Parochial Church Council, is inestimable.

There are many amongst us who will be the poorer without Wilf's wise counsel and generous help, our sympathy and support is extended to Lise his widow, and to his family.

They had 2 children, Tom and Daphne. Daphne filled in a questionnaire on Lacey Green School at a School reunion in 2000.

A Tribute to Lise-Beate Tagg

Lise, who died in July, came to ‘England from Norway some 50 years ago, the bride of Wilf, an RAF officer who met her when serving at the NATO HQ in Oslo. They came to a tiny cottage in the Suffolk village of Ixworth and this is where we first met.

As so often happens with service families, our paths diverged and we did not meet again until we came to live here in 1973 and found Lise and Wilf had bought ‘Chippins' a year or two earlier. By then they had two children, Tom (named after Lise's brother who disappeared during the war trying to cross to England to join the Norwegian forces) and Daphne. Lise's life revolved around her family and was devoted entirely to them and to her house and garden, but after Wilf died suddenly in 1986 and with Tom and Daphne pursuing their careers elsewhere, she did eventually take up outside interests. These included a small sewing group (she was an accomplished needlewoman and made most of her own clothes to highly professional standards) the Horticultural Society and the Walking Club, although her home and family, especially her grandchildren, continued to be her focus. Having been a keen cross country skier throughout her life in Norway, she loved the outdoors and the English countryside and delighted in the monthly outings with the walking group; always in the lead, her enthusiasm and energy belied her age.

A very private person, Lise did not find it easy to make friends, but behind the reserve with which she cloaked herself was a warm and humorous personality. Cancer dogged her for the past ten years or so, but she never let it reduce her activities for long or to increase her dependence on others. Her visits to hospital at Stoke Mandeville and Oxford were, for the most part, made alone on the bus, in spite of the offers of help she received, and similarly with her shopping until her last few weeks. Independent to a degree, this is how she preferred it because she did not want to be a nuisance or a burden, and this applied to her family as much as anyone else.

A passionate lover of most things English, Lise thought the NHS wonderful and found it ‘amazing’ that so much care was lavished on one of her advanced years. Quiet and reserved she may have been, but Lise will be greatly missed by those privileged to know her.