‘There was never a dull moment with Shirley – she lit up every room’
While the nation remembers those lost to Covid as the UK passes 100,000 deaths, Sean Blowers pays tribute to his late wife
Sean met Shirley in 1981 and they married three years later
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In spite of it all I consider myself one of the lucky ones. When my wife Shirley died in West Middlesex Hospital on March 30 at the age of 62, I could be beside her until the end as she was registered blind.
In the final few hours together in the room I played our favourite songs on my iPhone. The last before she died in my arms was Billy Joel