Helen Green was our devoted wife, mother and friend, who was sadly taken from us on Friday 15th April 2024.

Helen, was a beautiful, talented and creative lady who loved to travel, eat spicy and exotic foods, tend her garden and watch tennis, but family was always number one.

Born in October 1974 to Janet and Phillip, she was their second child, her older sister Sarah, born 4 years earlier. Helen always spoke fondly of her childhood memories and other than her funny stories of life with an older sister, they led normal happy family lives,.

Helen was 19 she was working at Lloyds Bank in Sheffield, and just 3 months later she met John. After first laying eyes on Helen he wouldn’t take no for an answer, and luckily his persistence finally paid off. They regularly went clubbing at Isabella’s, Roxy’s and Cairo Jax and they in September 1998 they were married..

Over the years, Helen and John developed a liking for cruises and went on a total of 13, which took them from the Mediterranean to Alaska to the Caribbean and beyond. They both loved to travel; Disneyland, California, San Francisco, Grand Canyon, Vegas, Gibraltar, Spain, Italy, the Bahamas, and one of Helens favourites, St Lucia.

Helen’s other passion was her garden. The garden started off as a steep slope of clay with a few rosebushes and daffodils. But over the next 20 years Helen and John transformed it. Barry did all the heavy work creating tiers, decks, walls and patios, and Liz tended the soil and each plant and bush with dedication and love until she’d created an oasis of colour throughout the seasons with beautiful magnolias, camelias, rhododendrons, and the lovely blossoms from the apple and cherry trees.

We will remember Helen for all the things she loved but most of all in the spring, when the flowers start to bloom and we know that she'd be out in her garden doing what she loved the most.