My friend Mary Smith, who has died aged 74 of cancer, was a bereavement, trauma and relationship counsellor and a tutor and mentor to others. She was deeply rooted in her community in Leeds, West Yorkshire. She was an expansive and warm person whose home was a haven to many overseas students and professionals who were her lodgers.
Mary was born in Tamworth, Staffordshire, to a medical family - her mother, Helen (nee Royal), a nurse, and father, Greville Hoyle, a general practitioner.
