Jenny was born in Sheffield in 1946. She met her husband-to-be when she was 16 years old and they married in 1966. She took a job with Spears Handbags and later moved to employment with a surgical equipment manufacturer, which she particularly enjoyed.
Jenny had a difficult labour with her first child and this had an effect on herself and her son. Her second birth was trouble free, although the baby was born with a heart problem. Jenny was also the main carer for her mother who had suffered a stroke.
Since then Jenny has had to come to terms with life without her husband.
"And then he kept going and having his chemotherapy. He weren’t really getting any better when he’d come home and they’d got him on these tablets, on them tablets. And I couldn’t help him. And I remember a fortnight before he went into St Luke’s, they wanted him to go in to assess his tablets and what-have-you, and we were laid in bed, and I says to him, 'Let’s take the tablets together Rick'."
"And then we’ll both be together …….. and that’s what I wanted to do."
"Because that’s the only way I could have coped at the time and Rick said, 'No Jenny, no' he says, 'I want to live. I want to live and I want you to live, because you’ve got 't lads to think about' and we'd got a granddaughter by then."
Your husband was always thinking of you, never himself.
"Never."
