She was born Mavis Beaumont on 21st April 1942 in Nottingham to Mabel and Stanley. She remembered childhood trips to Goose Fair in Nottingham every year. She was an only child and as a teenager loved to socialise and go out on the town with friends always dressed in the latest fashions, wearing her best pair of heels and a new handbag. Early holidays with family were trips to Skegness or Mablethorpe and this was just the beginning of her travels. The introduction of the package holiday saw her jetting off to Spain with all her friends and this was more like it! Her first marriage was to Antony Beaumont and the couple moved to Shrewsbury where they had two children: Catherine and Steven. She loved Christmas so this was always a big occasion and she was usually awake even before her children on Christmas Day impatient to get started on the festivities. Maeve then met Dave through a part time job as a receptionist and radio controller for a fruit machine company and they married in October 1985 and soon after they started up their own business. Dave shared her love of travel and they had as many holidays as they could to America, India, Barbados, Mexico and the warmer parts of Europe. She was reknown for hosting the best and most raucous parties which always ended up in the kitchen and often lasted well into the small hours. Grandchildren arrived: Callum first who she was able to spend a lot of time with as a baby, then Molly who she could spoil with girly things and more recently Jessica who she couldn’t wait to fly back to England to meet. In 2004, totally fed up with work and with the British weather, Maeve and Dave sold up and made their dream move to Spain come true. She always wanted to live where there are “high skies and velvet nights” and she found that here. She loved the sunshine, culture, food and wine and, of course, the todo shops. Here as in England, she continued to meet and make new friends always able to see the best in anyone she met. A true friend who would always be there when needed. She has always enjoyed dancing from tap to line dancing and from belly dancing to jive and through these interests and others she has made many, many close friends. Much as she enjoyed living in Spain, Maeve loved her frequent trips back to England to visit her children and grandchildren and, of course, for the shopping and the London shows. One of her most famous sayings was “Life’s too short” and this applied as much to making your own pasta as to washing up by hand. All her friends and family will remember she hated to say goodbye, she’d rather say “Love Ya Babe!”