One of the early cancer nurses to be based at the Macmillan unit at King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, has died.
Virginia Bradley, who was 70 and a long-time resident of Petworth, died peacefully at home last Friday, surrounded by her family.
Her daughter Pippa Thorman said: "She received incredible care and support from the very people she knew best, the Ma
cmillan Cancer Support team and the Intensive Care at Home staff."
Following a career as a district nurse working in the area, Mrs Bradley joined Macmillan Cancer Relief, as the charity was then called, in the late 1970s, based at King Edward VII Hospital. She was a home care sister.
In 1982 she left the UK to live in South Africa but, missing both her work and the unit, she returned in 1985 to care for the terminally ill. Colleagues recall that she fulfilled this role in her own special way.
Mrs Bradley continued at the unit for the next 15 years during which, in 1992, she was awarded the Henry Garnet Macmillan Medal in recognition of her long and meritorious service in the care of people with cancer and their families.
Mrs Thorman said that her mother combined a wonderful sense of
compassion with humour and it was her amazing emotional intelligence that enabled her to give comfort to all those she came in contact with.
Mrs Bradley is survived also by two sons, Jonathan and James.
A service of thanksgiving for her life will be held at the the Sacred Heart Church, Petworth, tomorrow (October 10) at 3pm.
The family has requested no flowers but donations may be made to Macmillan Cancer Support Midhurst, Peachey House, 1-2 Bepton Road, Midhurst GU29 9LU.
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