Keturah Sorrell

Keturah Sadler (10 September 1912 – 30 March 2012), better known by her stage name Keturah Sorrell, was a British opera singer and later a background actress.

Early life Sorrell was born in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England to John W. Sorrell and Jenny Kennedy. She attended Middlesbrough High School.

Career as a singer She sang in Gilbert and Sullivan productions for the Redcar Operatic Society and studied after her marriage in 1939 at the Royal College of Music where she was encouraged by George Dyson. as well as in Victoria Wood's television film Pat and Margaret in 1994 as a resident in an old people's home.

Personal life and death Sorrell's husband, Eric Sadler, whom she married in 1939, was a journalist. The couple had a son together, Paul K Sadler (born 1947). Eric Sadler died in 1999.

Sorrell died of natural causes in 2012, aged 99.