A woman never forgot the lifeboat crew who saved her life as a teenager nearly 60 years ago - and left them more than £14,000 in her will. Kind-hearted Joan Scambler, from Dunbar in East Lothian, made the remarkable gesture before she sadly passed away in January 2021, aged 69.
She was rescued by the town's lifeboat volunteers after a canoe she was in capsized in April 1965, when she was 14. She was kept afloat by her friend Arnold 'Noll' Togneri, whose canoe it was, but she was fearing for her life when the lifeboat reached her.
Joan's brother Alan Scambler said: "Joan was always most grateful to the RNLI for saving her and they gave her an additional 56 years of life. Joan was generous to a fault and in part of her will she bequeathed £14,360 each to five different charities."
