Dame Stephanie Shirley, 91, who died on 9 August, is remembered by thousands for her pioneering work in the field of technology and for women's rights in the 1950s and 1960s.
She founded the software company Freelance Programmers, which shook up the tech industry by almost exclusively hiring women.
As a child, she was separated from her parents to flee the Nazis in World War Two, settling with a foster family in the Sutton Coldfield in 1939, before later moving to Oswestry.
It was at school in the Shropshire town it was discovered she had an aptitude for mathematics, which ultimately let her to becoming a tech pioneer.
She was born Vera Buchthal in the German city of Dortmund in 1933, and came to Britain as part of the Kindertransport - a British rescue effort in the months preceding World War Two that brought 10,000 children to the UK.
