Janey Godley’s funeral commences in Glasgow as fans line street to say tearful goodbyes

Scottish icon and comedian Janey Godley died earlier successful November aft surviving with ovarian crab for 3 years

Janey Godley's ceremonial is underway successful Glasgow.

The much-loved comedian died earlier this month successful a hospice aged 63. Janey, champion known for her Nicola Sturgeon parodies, announced the heartbreaking quality of her ovarian crab successful November 2021.

She was fixed the all-clear successful 2022, earlier aboriginal announcing that different scan had shown signs of the illness successful her abdomen. She past cancelled her forthcoming circuit this autumn owed to her signifier 4 ovarian cancer. Soon after, she announced she would beryllium getting palliative attraction and going into a hospice.

On Saturday astatine 10am, Janey's ceremonial commented astatine St Mary's Cathedral successful Glasgow. Among the mourners was erstwhile Scottish archetypal curate Nicola Sturgeon. The comedian created voiceover parodies of Ms Sturgeon’s coronavirus quality briefings during the pandemic, and the brace became friends.

Conditions are adust but overcast for the funeral, which volition beryllium livestreamed connected YouTube.

Janey's beloved girl Ashley confirmed earlier successful the week that fans would person the accidental to wage their past respects to her mum. Taking to X, formerly Twitter, she shared details astir her mum's ceremonial procession, which took spot connected Friday, and Saturday's funeral.

Tweeting from her precocious mum's account, she shared: "Hello friends. For the past fewer years of ma's life, it was important to her that she shared her travel with everyone, to connection enactment for others connected the aforesaid way and to item the symptoms of ovarian crab - each of people successful her precise singular Janey style, with laughter and candour.

"So galore of you who person travelled with america connected this travel privation to bid her a last farewell, truthful here's the details of my mum's last tour, the 2 cities she loved with each her heart."

Ashley went on: "Friday 29th of November: Janey volition person 1 past sojourn to Edinburgh, her beloved festival home. At 2.30pm, her hearse volition question from Lawnmarket, heading down the Royal Mile towards St Giles Cathedral, wherever we volition intermission for reflection. Then transportation connected to Cockburn street, Market Street and location to Glasgow."

Ashley past wrote: "Saturday 30th of November: Janey's ceremonial work is astatine 10am astatine St Mary's Cathedral, Great Western Road, Glasgow. Hearse and coaches volition permission the cathedral astatine 11.30am and proceed on Great Western Road towards the crematorium. The work astatine the crematorium volition beryllium private."

It was Janey's heartbroken girl who announced her mum's decease astatine the opening of November, penning connected X: "Earlier this morning, Janey passed distant successful her sleep. Her household were with her. The emotion and enactment from each her friends and fans during this crab travel brought her tremendous joy. It has besides been a immense comfortableness to us, her household and adjacent friends, convey you."

Ashley had been her mum's dependable successful the weeks and months earlier her death, regularly posting to societal media and sharing her brave mum's journey.

Shortly earlier she died, Janey was awarded an honorary grade from the University of Glasgow arsenic she shared a pic of her receiving a certificate from her bed.

The station read: “Thank you @UofGlasgow for bestowing upon my mum the honorary grade of doc of the University of Glasgow. This has brought her truthful overmuch joyousness successful the last beats of her life. Janey is truthful honoured and I americium truthful immensely arrogant of her. I americium ever arrogant of her. Thank you for each your kindness and enactment to our household successful this precise hard time."

The University of Glasgow replied: "It is an honour to bestow an honorary doctorate connected the unthinkable Dr Godley. We nonstop each our emotion and enactment to Janey and her family."

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