AN EIGHT-year-old boy has been left orphaned after his mum died of terminal cancer years after the tragic death of his dad. Vicky Myers, 35, lost her fight with cancer on January 11, leaving her son William in the care of her retired mother Janet. Vicky, from Thornaby, North Yorkshire, did everything possible in her final months to make memories with her son William, whose dad, John, died in 2015. Over the last year, Vicky brought her son on a number of family holidays including a trip away in a caravan. Speaking to The Mirror, Vicky’s best friend Lorraine Mulgrew told of how leaving William without a parent was Vicky’s “biggest fear” and that she “hung on as much as she could”. Last February, Vicky was given the news that her breast cancer had spread throughout her body and that she only had three months to live.”She hung on as much as she could to do as much as she could for William,” Lorraine said. “She’s the most courageous person I have ever met. Everything that she went through, it was all for William.” The boy’s father, a musician, died in 2015 when he was only 32. Two years after… Read full this story
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