Mrs Bearman was born on March 27, 1899, and for most of her life wrote poems and short stories and threw them away. In 1968, a hospital sister found one of her poems in the bin and showed it to a doctor who told her she should have it published.
She starred on Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks a few years later and, despite coming second, was invited to appear on the All Winners' show.
Mrs Bearman, who owned a bakery in Bolton, Lancashire, England, where she produced meat and potato pies for a local mill, also regularly contributed to Lancashire Life, broadcast her poems on Radio Blackburn and had one of her verses set to music by BBC2 for a programme on dialect. She had an entry in the Who's Who of Poetry.
She died in 1985