A BRAVE young mum from Davyhulme created mementoes for her children, knowing that she was dying of cancer.

Thirty six year old Tracey Wadsworth, nee Ling, also saw one of her last wishes fulfilled when her three young children were baptised the day before she died last month.

Caring Tracey passed away on May 13 after a two year battle with breast cancer but her mum Chris Slater says that she remained upbeat and dignified throughout.

She told SUM: "She was such a lovely woman and never got downhearted at all, even during chemotherapy after she was first diagnosed.

"She helped organise her own funeral and wanted everything to be right. She even cared so much about the way that her family and friends felt that she was always apologising for her illness.

"That was just the way she was and being the oldest of five children, she was always there for advice and comfort."

An acclaimed make-up artist, the popular local girl moved to Leigh just after marrying childhood sweetheart Martin Wadsworth in 1989, but was still fondly thought of in her home town.

The former Kingsway and Flixton Girls school pupil met Martin while studying for her A levels.

She attended Urmston Grammar for Girls and some of her lessons were at the boys' school where it was a case of love at first sight.

The couple were married eleven years ago and had just finished building their perfect home in Atherton when Tracey became pregnant expecting their third child.

It was while pregnant in May 1998 that she discovered a lump in her right breast.

After receiving the bad news that the lump was malignant, Tracey underwent a mastectomy and after chemotherapy the couple were delighted with the problem-free birth of baby Georgina that June.

It was only a matter of months later though when a routine scan detected further problems with Tracey's liver and she spent 1999 battling against the disease.

Chris went on: "Tracey kept laughing all the way through the battle and never complained about any pain.

"Knowing Christmas would be her last, she arranged a special trip to Lapland for the three children, Ethan, seven, Harriet, five, and baby Georgina.

"She also made time capsules for them before she passed on and the feeling for her was illustrated by the number of people that showed up at the funeral.

"She will be fondly remembered because she was so beautiful inside and out."

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