Elsie Maliphant [##46766] 1913-1999, widow of Richard [##46066] who was a wireless operator in the RAF during WWII, lived in Brixham during the last few years of her life.

She wrote a poem :

Nursed and encircled by Gowers strong arm,
With stonewalled cottages cast in her lap,
Protected by meadowland and farm
Lives sleepy PEMBERY taking her nap

Beyond the dunes and sunkissed beaches
As far as eye can scan,
The white and winding road impeaches
Intrusion works of man.

Whilst standing aloof the old Church Tower
Bestows on all a look paternal,
And guards the sleeping honoured dead
And seems to chime “I am Eternal”