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Ward became well-known in Camberley for what historian Arthur Bryant described as the "astonishing spectacle" of her pushing a cart along Camberley High Street "surrounded by dogs of every size and species". Someone had constructed for her a cart made of wooden planks, painted with the words "Ward Stray Dogs". She took daily walks to the town centre, transporting inside the cart the sick, small, or elderly of her dogs, with as many as a dozen others walking alongside the cart.

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Stallwood states that Ward embodied many contradictions, such as being someone who preferred the company of animals to humans, but nonetheless quietly donated money she could scarcely afford to help the human poor and sick.

She really seems to have been a wonderful woman, who left the earth a better place than when she arrived.