Her mother was Frances Ellen (born Jones) and her father was a joiner named John Henwood.
She travelled a lot to visit the diaspora of centres and she kept and enjoyed a detailed correspondence with each of the nurses.
[1] Whicker's contribution was to give them support and this was recognised in 1960 when she became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
[3] She had kept a high profile, for example when she was given a few months vacation in 1959 she used it to attend conferences and nursing facilities in the UK, Scandinavia and Canada.
She had been at the International Nursing Congress in Melbourne in 1955 and the Pan-Pacific Rehabilitation Conference in Sydney in 1958 on behalf of the association.