Two popular retired Carlisle teachers who died earlier this month will be remembered at services in the coming days.

Both Maureen Smith and Jean Wirth, who had each worked at the city's former Harraby secondary school in their careers, died on November 16.

A funeral service for Jean Wirth, who was 77, will take place at Carlisle Crematorium tomorrow at 11.40am.

The family have requested no flowers but donations to Oxfam and Hospice at Home.

Mrs Wirth led the campaign to save the historic front of the city's St Aidan's School.

She started teaching English at the school in 1975 and, after a number of years as deputy head, was head for a year before retiring in 1999.

Alongside fellow St Aidan's teacher David Kemp, in 2008 she campaigned to save the Old Hall at the school but, despite a 1,500-name petition, the building was demolished and the Richard Rose Central Academy built on the site.

Mrs Wirth began her teaching career in the 1960s at Harraby before moving to Morton and then on to St Aidan's.

She died at home after a long battle against myeloma.

Mrs Wirth, from Carlton Gardens, Carlisle, was heavily involved with Oxfam in Carlisle and played a big part in the opening of the organisation's first store in the city.

She is survived by husband Raymond, the former county treasure for Cumbria County Council, their children Sarah, Joel and James, and six grandchildren.

Meanwhile a celebration service will be held at St Kentigern's Church, Irthington on Thursday.

Family and friends will gather there to remember 86-year-old Maureen Smith.

Mrs Smith, of Heads Nook, near Brampton, died following a collision on the A689 on the outskirts of Carlisle, near its Irthington junction.

A short committal service is to take place at Carlisle Crematorium at 12.20pm before the celebration at St Kentigern's Church, Irthington, begins at 1.30pm.

In a similar move, relatives of Mrs Smith, who was known as Mo, request family flowers only.

Donations are go to Hospice at Home and the Brampton Hospital League of Friends, two of the community groups and charities she was involved in.

Moving online tributes have been paid to both women by former pupils.