Jessie May Roach

A Civilian, Jessie died on 10th of August 1941 at the age of 48. 

Jessie was born at Lowestoft on 13 March 1893, a daughter of George and Susan Ann Smith. She was baptised at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 7 May 1893 and her family lived at 35 Edinburgh Road. 

Jessie married Sydney Road at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 18 December 1917. At that time he was a soldier on active service, and Jessie lived at 16 Queens Road. 

In 1921 Jessie and Sydney were living with Jessie's mother, and siblings, at 16 Queens Road, and Sydney worked as a general labourer for Lowestoft Corporation. 

By 1939 Jessie and Sydney were living at 71 Wollaston Road.

On the night of 9-10 August 1941 an air raid took place at Lowestoft. Jessie, Sydney, their nineteen year old son Frank, William and Georgina Powell, and their son William, took shelter in a double Anderson shelter at the end of the garden of 71 Wollaston Road. A high explosive bomb scored a direct hit on the shelter killing everyone inside.