Coronavirus can take anyone’s life, a heartbroken family warns as lockdown restrictions begin to ease.

Susan Rowley battled Covid-19 back in May but sadly lost her life at the age of 63 after she was rushed to Wrexham Maelor Hospital.

The family has paid tribute to the woman who was ‘loved by so many’ and is warning people that the virus is still out there and will still take lives.

Daughter Jackie said: “The morning mum was rushed to hospital, the X-Ray showed that she had pneumonia. I just knew the virus would take her.

“We haven’t been able to see mum since March, a few days after Mother’s Day as my mum had been in hospital at the start of lockdown with an infection in her leg.

“It could happen to anyone, you don’t know what is around the corner. The last time we saw my mum was through her bedroom window.”

The Leader:

Visiting Susan through her bedroom window in Wrexham

Susan was born in Wrexham on New Year’s Day and lived and worked in the town her whole life until she retired due to ill health and after having had an operation to remove her foot, she moved into Stansty care home.

On May 26, an ambulance was called after Susan had taken ill and had been in bed since the previous evening but sadly lost her life on May 30.

Jackie added: “My mum will be deeply, sadly missed by all of her loving family. We are all so upset and devastated about the loss of mum.

“Her birthday was on New Year’s Day and every year she would host a house party for family and neighbours. She loved her family and she loved to have her grandchildren staying over of a weekend.”

Susan has been described as a ‘loving and caring person’ who would do anything for anyone, including taking care of new-born puppies by handfeeding them when the mum was too sick.

Jackie told the Leader: “She retired from work many years ago due to ill health. The last job she had was looking after a disabled man.

“Mum was very independent but moved into Stansty care home in October 2019 after not being able to return home.

“She was loved by so many people including friends of her children and grandchildren and all of her family.

The Leader:

Susan Rowley

“In 2016 she was really poorly, she had double pneumonia and sepsis and was in the intensive care unit for three months. In that time, she was given just hours to live, doctors would say there is no hope for her.

“One day I was taken into a room to be told they couldn’t do anything else for her but the next week she was a different person, sitting up and was eventually moved to another ward.

“She was a fighter, it was a long and hard journey, she had to learn to walk and eat again but she did it. In June 2019, she had her foot amputated to just below the knee because of a blister that was turning into an ulcer.

“She got through that, mum was a fighter.”

Jackie said Susan doted on her family and would regularly visit and spend time with them.

She said: “Mum would welcome anyone into her house. If she was making tea and one of our friends were around, no doubt she would feed them too.

“She was so creative. She loved going to different classes like flower arranging. In the home, she loved making things, making bunting and pom poms for her room and colouring, she made masks for us all and even for residents and staff in the home.

“Even though she was diabetic, she loved everything sweet and loved going on days out with her family.

“Mum just really enjoyed spending time with her family, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.”

The family is urging people to continue taking the threat of the virus seriously as lockdown measures begin to ease across the UK.

Jackie told the Leader that with the rising cases in Wrexham, added with the shock and grief from her mum’s death, she is scared to go out.

She said: “It needs to be taken seriously. After the rising cases in Wrexham and the results from the food factory, I’m scared to go out anywhere.

“You don’t know who has it and who is passing it on.”

Susan leaves behind her children Jackie and Nigel, grandchildren Jake, Lisha and Finely, great-grandchildren Ollie and siblings Dave, Julienne, the late Jan and brother-in-law Tony and many nieces and nephews and great nephews.