After graduating she married Ronnie Hedderwick and worked for two years as a travelling science teacher in Mid Argyll, qualifying at Jordanhill College of Education; then they moved to Coll where they lived for ten years, raising their two children Mark and Tammie.
After graduating she married Ronnie Hedderwick on 24 June 1962, and worked for two years as a travelling art teacher in Mid Argyll, qualifying at Jordanhill College of Education. 
