Mum was a truly selfless person. She was intelligent, strong and incredibly resilient, and always put other people before herself. She was kind, patient, tolerant and quietly funny, with a wonderfully self-deprecating sense of humour.
Mum was diagnosed with bowel cancer for almost 11 years, enduring multiple operations, procedures and chemotherapy with extraordinary strength and very little complaint. She was immensely grateful for the care she received and always conscious of not wanting to be a burden.
I will miss being able to pick up the phone and share stories about what we'd been doing each week.
We're raising money for cancer research in Mum's memory, in the hope that one day other families will have to face less of what ours has been through.
Kate Osborne
30/08/2026
