A woman who helped hundreds of local women overcome the trauma of hair loss has died.
Gill Morris, who has died at the age of 67, worked as a hairdresser at Hatt's city salon between 1961 and 1971.
In 1989, though, Gill contracted breast cancer.
Having gone through the hair loss side-effects of the treatment herself, she used her hairdressing skills to help others facing a similar plight.
She started fitting wigs that very year.
"She supported hundreds of ladies through the traumatic experience of hair loss during cancer treatment and alopecia," said her husband Richard.
This was something Gill, too, continued to do until 2009 when she retired, having suffered a recurrence of the breast cancer.
Gill then became a volunteer with Headstart – giving advice on hair loss at the Royal United Hospital.
She was also a member of the Bath Cancer Unit Support Group committee, helping to raise funds for a positron scanner which will transform the treatment of cancer at the RUH.
Gill leaves her husband, two daughters, Becky and Tami, son-in-law Og, and grandchildren, Tilly, Rafferty and Edie.
Her funeral takes place on Tuesday at 2.30pm at Haycombe Crematorium in Bath.
There are family flowers only for this but donations can be made to Bath Cancer Unit Support Group c/o Co-operative Funeral Care, Pulteney Road, Bath, BA2 4HP.
