Janey Godley will head on a "final tour" of her two beloved Scots cities before she is laid to rest. The much-loved comedian died last week aged 63 after she lost her battle with ovarian cancer.
Daughter Ashley Storrie has revealed her mum will be given a huge send off, allowing well-wishers the chance to pay their respects. Janey will pay one last trip to Edinburgh - her "beloved Festival Home" - before being brought back home to Glasgow.
Ashley, 38, shared the plans on social media, detailing how Janey's farewell will take place on Friday, November 29 and St Andrew's Day, Saturday, November 30.
In a post on Ashley's instagram, she said: "Here’s the details of Janey’s final tour, thank you for all the love and kindness in this past week. For the past few years of Ma’s life, it was important to her that she shared her journey with everyone, to offer support for others on the same path and to highlight the symptoms of Ovarian Cancer – all of course in her very singular Janey style, with laughter and candour.
“So many of you who have travelled with us on this journey wish to bid her a final farewell, so here’s the details of my mum’s final tour, in the two cities she loved with all her heart.”
The post details how Janey will head to the capital on Friday, November 29, and is set to arrive at 2.30pm. The hearse will visit Lawnmarket before heading along the Royal Mile towards St Giles Cathedral where there will be a "pause for reflection". It will then carry on to Cockburn Street, Market Street before heading back to Glasgow.
Janey is then set for a St Andrew's Day send-off the following day, with a service being held at St Mary’s Cathedral on Great Western Road at 10am. The hearse and coaches will then leave for the crematorium and head along Great Western Road. A private service will be held at the crematorium.
Ashley said that, rather than flowers, her mum wished for donations to be sent in for the Princess of Wales Hospice, where she spent her final days. Janey also asked for bright colours to be worn by mourners on the day of her funeral.
Janey was surrounded by loved ones when she died on Saturday, November 2, at the hospice. Janey was best known for her legendary voiceovers of Nicola Sturgeon during the Covid pandemic.
Her manager, Chris Davis last week said: "She will be remembered for her legendary voiceovers of Nicola Sturgeon during the pandemic, her hilarious and outspoken comedy, but most of all for just being ‘Janey’.”
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The comedian who also went viral for a hilarious one-woman protest outside Donald Trump's Turnberry Hotel in Ayrshire, shared the news she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in November 2021. Janey revealed in September this year that despite years of treatment she was receiving palliative care at a hospice.
Before her death Janey received one last Hospice call from Billy Connolly. The Big Yin put a smile on the brave mum's face with a "disgusting" and hilarious final chat.
Janey posted on X: "A Florida phone call from an old Glasgow pal can fair cheer me up. Same old darkest, offensive, humour and plethora of disgusting swearing as always! Laughter abound! What a smile though - what a man - may comedy always be as offensively funny now and forever."
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