Jean Bostock was one of life's great characters. She had a sharp sense of humour and was always quick with a one-liner, a trait that served her well as a school supervisor in north Manchester for many years.
Despite her family's protestations, she would chain smoke cigarettes one after another, a habit that only got worse as she developed dementia and began to forget when she'd just had one.
But having made it to 87-years-old, she wasn't about to give up. "She would say 'what do you think is going to get me?' and I would say 'those bloody cigs!'" said daughter Wendy Donegan.
In the end, it wasn't smoking that killed Jean - at least directly - it was coronavirus. At the time, she was still living in a flat at Dunstan Court in Moston, an
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