Former Sussex music teacher and pianist Florence Percy has died at the age of 91.

Mrs Percy, nee Prophet, lived in Albion Street, Southwick, for more than 50 years until she fell last year and fractured her pelvis.

The great-grandmother was born in Stockport, Cheshire, in 1911 and the church became an important element of her life.

It also led to her meeting her husband, Joseph Crosswaite Percy, who was training to become an ordained minister as she studied music to become a teacher.

When her husband eventually completed his exams, they moved to Eastleigh in Hampshire.

The couple had one son, Steve, who runs an electrical repair and design company in Seven Dials in Brighton and has two children.

They lived in Hampshire until a doctor recommended a move to Sussex to improve their son's asthma and they plumped for Albion Street.

Mrs Percy and her husband were well known in the church community and she would play the organ in many of the places he served.

Mr Percy worked at the Railway Mission in Viaduct Road, Preston Circus, Brighton, and the Baptist church in Dorset Gardens in Brighton, as well as on the railways as a clerk for British Rail.

He died in 1985 but Mrs Percy continued to live at the home they shared until her fall, after which she developed cancer and it was decided she should be cared for in the Kingsland Nursing Home in Shoreham, where she died on Tuesday last week.

A year before she died, Mrs Percy took a flight in a helicopter from Shoreham airport with her son.

Steve, 65, said: "Anyone who knew her or my father is welcome to come to the funeral. It would be nice for people to come. They were very well known.

"She lived a good, healthy life. She was a vegetarian and only drank water and some tea."

Mrs Percy, who also helped with the Girls' Life Brigade, began teaching piano at the age of 24 and worked at the London College of Music.

She only stopped full-time teaching when her son was born.

Her funeral service is being held on Tuesday, January 7, at noon at Woodvale Crematorium, Brighton.

Flowers are welcome with donations to Cancer Research UK.