Florence Nancie Colling MBE (née Whalley) also Nancie Evans (19 April 1919[1] – 1 July 2020) was an international lawn bowls competitor for England.
[3] In 1956 she won the first of her four National titles when winning the singles championship.
Remarkably she won the fourth of her National singles titles in 1970, four years after a spine injury had temporarily paralysed her.
[10] In 1973 she was selected for the England team at the 1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Wellington, New Zealand and won a silver medal's in the fours with Phyllis Derrick, Eileen Smith and Joan Sparkes, in addition to winning a bronze medal in the team event (Taylor Trophy).
[12][13] Colling was recognised on her 100th birthday in 2019 by Bowls England[14] but she died the following year in 2020 at her care home in Devon.