The Rev Marion Dodd,
formerly minister at Kelso Old and Sprouston, died after a short illness, on July 30.
A daughter of the manse, she was ‘just the wee lassie that sang in a family full of musicians’, growing up first in Glasgow with her brothers Ian, Edwin and Neil and then Selkirk. Her father, the Rev Harry Dodd served as a minister and her mother, Ida, was the organist.
Ministry was her third ‘career’ after five years serving as a linguist in the Foreign Office, where she translated Russian and then 17 years as a member of the BBC Singers in London before she explored a call to ministry (encouraged by the Very Rev Fraser McLuskey at London: St Columba’s) which led to her studies at New College in Edinburgh. She was licensed by the presbytery of England in 1987 and served as assistant at Edinburgh: Colinton before her ordination in Edinburgh in 1988.