A fit and healthy mum-of-six died last weekend after a short illness. Paula Hughes was as happy as she usually was following her 49th birthday in the last week of April.
The hospice volunteer then developed an infection in her stomach which triggered organ failure, the Liverpool Echo reported.
She died last Saturday, holding one of her sons' hands. Paula, from Moreton, Wirral was also diagnosed with Covid-19 while at Arrowe Park Hospital.
Her heartbroken daughter Steph described her mum as "an amazing person" who was "the centre of all our worlds". The grandmother-of-six dedicated herself to St John's cancer hospice after her husband lost his life to the disease in 2011.