Linda Nolan’s funeral details revealed as family pay tribute to star’s ‘remarkable life’
Linda Nolan’s funeral details revealed as family pay tribute to star’s ‘remarkable life’
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Family called the singer ‘a beacon of light, strength and unwavering love’ as they invited fans and supporters to pay their respects. The family of Linda Nolan have revealed plans for the Irish singer and actor’s funeral, which will take place this week on Saturday 1 February.
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Nolan, who rose to fame in the Eighties as the family-formed girl group The Nolans, died peacefully on 15 January “with her loving siblings by her bedside”. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and went into remission the following year. In 2017, she disclosed that doctors had found a secondary cancer in her hip, which spread to her liver in 2020.
The family confirmed that she died after contracting double pneumonia over Christmas and New Year, explaining that it was one battle too much” for her weakened immune system. In a new statement, the Nolan family has now invited fans and friends of the late star to join them in celebrating her “extraordinary life”.
“Linda was a beacon of light, strength and unwavering love who inspired everyone she met, in addition to millions around the world,” the family said. “Her absence leaves an ache in our hearts, but her legacy will live on through the joy, hope and kindness she shared so freely.”.
The funeral service will take place at St Paul’s Church in Blackpool at 10.30am, with those who knew her or whose lives she touched invited to attend and pay their respects. Nolan’s family acknowledged that she was born in Dublin but “made Blackpool her home – a town and community that she cherished with all her heart.
