Elaine Lillian Wood (27 Mar 1960 - 14 Aug 2015)

In loving memory of Elaine Lillian Wood who sadly passed away on 14th August 2015

Elaine Lillian Riches was born on the 27th of March, 1960 to Alice and Roland. She was one of three sisters and three brothers. Work wise, Elaine had many jobs, some of which include bar tender, working in the kitchen of primary schools to her last two jobs, a cleaner at a primary school and a lunchtime supervisor at a secondary school. Elaine then got married to Robert Wood and had two children together, Andrew and Justine. Unfortunately the marriage didn't work out and in 2008, the two separated. One thing Elaine wanted in life was for her kids to be happy and that is one thing that she made her mission because if her kids were happy, she was happy. Elaine battled a lot soon after turning 50, being diagnosed with breast cancer (which luckily the doctors caught in time and got rid of), having hip replacement due to chronic arthritis to then the biggest battle which ultimately she could not win for the last two weeks of her life. A 4cm blood clot in the brain which was found early hours of the morning on the 3rd of August which lead to major brain surgery which was the first battle Elaine fought. The second battle came a week later when the doctors found that a vicious cancer had developed in the bowels and had spread to the liver. They also believed there to be a construction in the bowels and that left Elaine with two options; to under go the major operation and remove the construction or to just take her of the ventilator seeing as she hadn't recovered from the brain operation and a major operation on the bowels just wasn't going to be in her interest. Elaine was then removed of the ventilator at around half past eight Thursday evening. Her children stayed with her until around quarter past eleven where her condition had remained stable. Elaine then passed away at around 5 o'clock in the early hours of Friday morning.

Elaine will be lived on by her two children; Andrew and Justine and will be fondly remembered as a lovely sister, a wonderful grandma and an amazing mother.