My friend Janet Jackson, who has died aged 79, spent more than a decade as lead chaplain at St Oswald’s Hospice in Newcastle upon Tyne, and later set up a bereavement service for the Tynedale Hospice at Home in Hexham, Northumberland.
Her work supporting the bereaved touched thousands of people in the north-east of England and she was a pillar of support for many during the most difficult periods of their lives.
