Musician Lorna Spode has died astatine the property of 98.
The award-winning prima and laminitis of the Lorna Spode Consult died pursuing an ongoing conflict with dementia. Over 40 years, the Lorna Spode Consult was crowned BBC Radio Stoke’s Champion Choir and winners of the Blackpool Music Festival. Due to her dementia diagnosis, Lorna was excessively anemic to stave disconnected a thorax infection.
She died connected January 10 and is survived by her hubby Ken, who she joined successful 1953. The mates person 2 children, 3 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. Lorna was a self-taught instrumentalist and held lessons earlier recruiting pupils to her choir. Her ceremonial volition beryllium held aboriginal this month.
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Stoke Sentinel)Lorna's girl paid tribute to the prima arsenic she opened up connected the devastating loss. Angela said: “She got dementia conscionable erstwhile everything had settled down with Covid. She realised she was forgetting things. After the diagnosis she started to diminution rather rapidly really.
“It’s been hard, but successful a mode we were acceptable for it. We’ve been seeing mum each time and we’ve seen her accelerated decline. For a mates of weeks before, she didn’t cognize anyone." Angela explained her mum came from a "humble" background. Lorna began playing the soft from the property of 5 and rapidly discovered her hidden talent.
She added to StokeonTrentLive: “She was a beardown lady. She ruled the roost on with my dad, and she could beryllium precise opinionated. She was rather strict, but ever just with us. She knew however to get what she wanted retired of you!"
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