FAMILY and friends of brave Kerry Jackson - who died just hours before she was due to receive a life-saving mobile oxygen machine from generous Shuttle/Times & News readers - turned out in droves to pay their last respects.

The courageous 40-year-old's mother Maureen said she could not believe the number of people who attended her daughter's funeral at Stourbridge Crematorium.

"I've never seen so many people in my life," the 67-year-old, of Beauchamp Avenue, said.

"There were so many that they could not get into the chapel at the crematorium and it was so full people could not move, even outside."

The grieving mum, whose daughter desperately needed a second lung transplant when she died on Thursday, December 18, added: "The doors of the chapel remained open so everyone standing outside could see.

"It was a beautiful turnout, which would have made Kerry really proud."

A wake was also held for the former Stourport High School pupil, of Crundalls Lane, Bewdley, at Wribbenhall Social Club.