Farewell to lifelong eventing enthusiast Fiona Monteith
Former British Eventing (BE) board member and event horse owner Fiona Monteith has died, aged 48, of breast cancer.
Fiona, of Granby, Notts, had a lifelong involvement in eventing.
She was part of the winning Belvoir Pony Club eventing team in 1977 and rode and owned a number of horses, including Danbury Hill, on whom her sister Helen Scholl completed Burghley in 1990.
She was a BE board member from 2002-07 and following her diagnosis in 2008, raised more than £7,000 for cancer charities.
She died on 29 September and leaves her husband, Jeremy, and son, Joshua.
A thanksgiving service will be held on Friday (15 October) at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Melton Mowbray, Lincs, from 11.30am.
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