Brides Losses Cancer Battle Nineteen Days After Her Wedding
TRIBUTES have been paid to a bride who died 19 days after she got married in the chapel at Winchester hospital.
Abby Gresham-Burchell, 43, wed her partner of seven years, Thomas John, at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital on July 8.
She Past away last Sunday following a four year fight with cancer.
The couple, who have a five year old daughter had planned to marry at her parish church near Alton, but the ceremony was cancelled because Abby was too ill.
When her condition deteriorated, NHS staff joined together with family and friends to organise a whirlwind wedding so the couple could fulfil their wish to wed before cancer claimed her life.
It was the first wedding ever held in the hospital chapel.
Before her death, Abby told of how her Christian faith had given her strength to cope with her illness.
She was also confirmed in the hospital chapel on her wedding day by the Bishop of Basingstoke, the Rt Rev Trevor Willmott.
Abby requested any donations be sent to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital.
Our thought and prayers are with Abby’s family.
Author - Fay
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