Tributes have been pouring in after a Yorkshire mother-of-five suddenly collapsed and died on the school run last week.
Donna Taylor, 38, was suffering from pain in her head when she collapsed at the side of the road in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, on June 27.
n ambulance was called and paramedics worked for an hour to try to save her life before taking her to the hospital where she was declared clinically brain dead.
On June 28 her life support machine was switched off and Ms Taylor passed away.
Her four surviving children, Oliver, 14, Dakota, 12, Ella, five, and Nevaeh, one, are now being looked after by their dad.
She also had another son, Josh, who tragically died when he was just three.
Ms Taylor’s cousin, Kealy Smith, said she was beloved in the area, always chatting to people, adding that her death came as a shock to everyone.
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Kealy said: ‘She was literally just walking her daughter to school and said she got a pain in her head and she ending up collapsing.
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‘An ambulance was rung and they were working on her for about an hour at the side of the road.
‘It was very unexpected, she was just taking her daughter to school. She was talking to my uncle the night before.
‘I think everyone was just in shock. How can you go from taking your daughter to school to being gone?’
The local community has seen flower tributes left at the site of Donna’s collapse on Quarry Hill in Sowerby Bridge.
One included a message which read: ‘Thank you for always speaking to us when we first moved to the area.
‘You were the first on the school run, twice a day, to say hello and chat.
‘Sending love and strength to all your family. You will never be forgotten.’
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