More backstory on the passing of my cousin's wife: on Saturday evening last week she hadn't been feeling well so went for a lie down on the sofa. An hour later Colin tried to wake her but couldn't. This is when he realised that his beautiful partner for the last 45 years had gone.
As their eldest son observed during the euolgy, "As far as Mum was concerned, there were only two groups of people in the world: those whom she loved and those she hadn't met."