A popular former teacher who beat a rare form of cancer during lockdown has died unexpectedly. Tributes have been paid to Trish Isaac from friends and former pupils after her family revealed she had passed away earlier this month.
Trish, 69, had been a familiar face in the local community for decades and is best remembered for her many years teaching at a local primary school up until her retirement in the early Noughties. However, just before the pandemic struck in 2020 she was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and underwent gruelling courses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy before finally being given a clean bill of health last September.
But her family said Trish, from Aberdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, started feeling unwell at the start of this month and passed away in her sleep just a few days later. Her son David added that they've yet to find out the cause of her death.
