My wife, Carol Town, who has died aged 68, was a counsellor and therapist who managed to help many people across her lifetime, despite the difficulties she faced as the result of a disabling heart condition.
Carol was born in Upminster, Essex, to Derek Burton, a British Rail manager, and his wife, Iris (nee Joss), a solicitor’s secretary. At the age of five she was diagnosed as having a hole-in-the-heart condition, Eisenmenger’s syndrome, and her parents were told that most people with it did not survive beyond 30.
