TRIBUTES have been paid to an inspirational Stourbridge woman who has died at the age of 47 - more than 20 years after being given a second chance at life.
Kate Turner, nee Winning, whose brave fight to survive leukaemia in the late 1990s inspired massive fundraising efforts for what became the Georgina Unit at Russells Hall Hospital, passed away on December 1 after a re-occurrence of the deadly disease.
The courageous and much-loved wife and auntie never took anything for granted after her three-year battle against acute myeloid leukaemia during which she endured gruelling chemotherapy, radiotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, then a second ground-breaking transplant of stem cells after a relapse.