Christine Gladys Le – she’d be mad we wrote her name in full – Chris or Chrissie to some, passed away on Tuesday 5th April 2022. She’d had a tough battle with Motor Neurone Disease the past year and a bit, and was recently admitted to hospital with pneumonia caused by the disease. Her future prognosis was not good and she made the decision that it was her time, on her terms, with the strength and courage with which she lived her life. We, her daughters, were all with her in the last moments and she was happy to finally find peace.

Mum was born on 23rd August 1951 to Adam and Peggy Szaper. A sister to Stan, Jo and Henry.

She grew up in Tooting but quickly caught the travel bug throughout her younger years, living on a Kibbutz in Israel for a spell, an experience she talked about often and counted amongst her best. Travel is something she continued for most of her life, loving trips with friends over the years and long weekends in various European destinations with family.

Mum to three daughters, Amanda, Jenny and Karen, as well as their partners David, Phil and Dan, Nanny to five grandchildren, Melia, Alba, Larna, Oscar and just a month ago Maeva, she was and remains the centre of the family to which she gave everything.

The first on the dance floor, passionate about music, a lover of food, wine and of course vodka – her tipple of choice, always cracking terrible jokes, loving deeply and leaving everyone she met with so much, she will be missed more than imaginable.

It was always going to be too soon to say goodbye but a life, lived well, is long enough and she lived hers to the fullest.