Laura was born with big gangly legs. Within 12 months she has eye problems and needed to wear glasses with an eye patch.

As she grew up she used to say she was an ugly duckling who turned in to a beautiful swan.
She loved to dance and she was made for it with those long legs.

Her first performance on stage didn’t go too well. She played a Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz and she was so excited that she ran out onto the stage, fell over the ruby slippers and all the other Munchkins fell on top of her.

She was RADA ballet-trained and couldn’t get enough of it. She also did tap, jazz, modern and contemporary.

Laura was a skilled gymnast too which made her dance choreography unique. She’d put back flips into her performances.

After high school and college, she obtained a degree from De Montfort University and a further qualification from LIPA.

She took time out to work as a red coat at Butlin’s and gave air hostessing a go too and worked as an entertainer on the holiday isle of Menorca.
But dancing was her true love. 

She took a job teaching performing arts at Ramsey Grammar School in the Isle of Man and when they took that off the curriculum she decided to open her own dance school.

But it took its toll on her. She was also teaching Zumba at a church hall there and was heart broken when she had a problem with her knee and had to have surgery.

Then along came this awful disease: pancreatic cancer. After undergoing a huge operation at Christmas against the backdrop of Covid and unable to have any visitors for weeks on end, she came out of hospital ready for a fight, She spent the next six months doing all she could to battle it, even though it took all her strength to get out of bed.

Then one day, towards the end, the lights came back on in her. The beautiful swan was back. She must have been in so much pain but she fought through it and we had the best four weeks with her we could have imagined.
Sadly it was not to last. 

On July 15 Laura was taken from us more suddenly than we could ever have imagined.
Laura had a fabulous life. She entertained people, she made great friends and she got to travel – America, Egypt, Europe...

If you got to have her in your life, if only for a little while, you knew about it. You would never forget her. We are lucky to have the most wonderful memories of her.

In the words of her favourite singer, Jon Bon Jovi, she’ll be loved ALWAYS.