LOVING tributes have been paid to a headteacher and mother-of-two who has died at the age of 46. The family of Sarah Pauline Welch, headteacher of Sacred Heart RC Primary School in Accrington, said she leaves a legacy of love and care that has touched the lives of the children she taught during a vibrant and passionate career. Her mother Pamela said that it was this love of others, grounded in her Catholic faith, that defined her daughter’s approach. She said: “She loved children and she received love in return.” Mrs Welch, who died suddenly but peacefully at home of a heart attack, leaves her two children Jonathan, 23, and Rachel, 21, along with her mother Pamela, wife of the late John Hans, and her brothers and sisters Joanna, Sophie, John-Paul, Jessica, Patrick and Sean.
LOVING tributes have been paid to a headteacher and mother-of-two who has died at the age of 46. The family of Sarah Pauline Welch, headteacher of Sacred Heart RC Primary School in Accrington, said she leaves a legacy of love and care that has touched the lives of the children she taught during a vibrant and passionate career. Her mother Pamela said that it was this love of others, grounded in her Catholic faith, that defined her daughter’s approach. She said: “She loved children and she received love in return.” Mrs Welch, who died suddenly but peacefully at home of a heart attack, leaves her two children Jonathan, 23, and Rachel, 21, along with her mother Pamela, wife of the late John Hans, and her brothers and sisters Joanna, Sophie, John-Paul, Jessica, Patrick and Sean.