When she retired in 1980, Black Country nurse Maud Carr was made an MBE for her 35 years as a community nurse and midwife in Bilston and ettingshall. Mrs Carr was born in Sheffield and trained in Birmingham, qualifying as a state registered nurse in 1933 and a midwife in 1937. During the second world war she nursed at Archway Hospital in London. After her pharmacist husband died, she often had to take her then ten-year-old son Richard with her on her rounds. he now plans to hold a memorial service in her honour on April 14, the day she would have been 90. Anyone wishing to go should call Richard Carr on 01902716055. Mrs Carr died in Stourport-on-Severn on January 25.