There are no words to describe the sadness of this day. The hole you left in our lives when you were taken so early will never be filled. Our only comfort is that you are now happy and free from pain & worry. We miss you Sammi, we will see you again one day soon. Simons tribute to his sister : Good afternoon to everyone, You will have to forgive me for reading this speech from my notes as a speech in these circumstances it’s not really something that you can rehearse. The last time that I spoke in public was when I was Darren corners best man, I had rehearsed that speech loads of times and still messed that up so that why I’m going to have to read this. Right, thats my apologies out of the way. Firstly can I thank all of you for coming, Its overwhelming to see so many of you here. I’d now like to say a few words about my beautiful sister. Being Sam’s brother I never really new how much she loved me and I loved her. I guess we were a typical brother and sister always getting on each others nerves and in our younger years often literally fighting (well should would lay into me and I would just have to curl up in a ball and let her let rip cause dad would never let me lay a finger on her, and believe me there were times when I wanted to I can tell you. To be quite honest she was a bit of a pain, it’s like when we had sorted out the music for today, and the next track to be played is labbi sifree “something in side”. Now Sam bought me this CD years ago as we both absolutely loved it, I says to Steve don’t worry that’s indoors I remember when Sam bought that for me. Could I find it? No chance, she has obviously nicked it back off of me even though she bought it for me!!!! I could honestly stand here all day and bore you all with my stories but I’m feeling kind today so I’ll let you off. Now to the hard part, I didn’t honestly realise how much love I had for my beautiful sister until now and I honestly didn’t realise how many of your hearts that she has touched. It’s become apparent that she just had this natural happiness and kindness about her that seemed to just filter into the minds and bodies of those that she met and shared friendships with. This has manifested itself through different tributes from you all and through comments from the wonderful nurses that cared for her through her illness and especially from her cancer specialist Dr Trask. A quote from Dr Trask to Steve (for any of you that don’t know Steve is Sam’s partner). “I have twenty thousand cancer patients and if there was only one that I could save it would be Sam” A quote from her nurses at Southend hospital. “Her personality rippled through the ward like a pebble being thrown into the water “ I think you will all agree she was a special person. Those of you that know us well are aware that we both aren’t angels, we’ve had our fare share of doing naughty things, but I have to say that from the above it is plain to see that it is a credit to our mum and dad in the way that they have brought us up and I speak for myself and Sammie that we are so grateful to them for that. I would also like to say thank you to Steve who has been an absolute rock. Sam could not have been in any better hands than those of Steve and the nurses on the Elizabeth Lowry ward and I know that she loved Steve more than anything and I’d just like to say that Steve you will always be a part of our family. I think the world of you mate. I think that you will all agree that life is much too short and I know that I’m am going to try my hardest to enjoy every day of my life as my sister Sam has been an inspiration to me and I hope to you all. Steve sent me a txt message shortly after Sam passed away. It said “smile Si, She is happy again now” and that is so true. I wanted to share that with you all so you can all try to be happy at this very sad time. Finally I would like to say that am gona miss you so bad Sam you will always be in my mind and my heart and I love you with all of my heart. Thank you.