My daughter Lorna Paterson, who has died aged 14 from respiratory failure due to cystic fibrosis, was an inspirational teenager who touched the hearts of everyone who met her. She never let her CF get in the way of living life to the full.
Her love of music was her main motivation. As first flute in the wind band at Woking high school, Surrey, she played concerts locally and on tour in Spain and Italy. A few weeks before her death, she passed her grade six flute and picccolo examination with merit; she had also taken up the saxophone. In March, she achieved her ambition to play a flute arrangement of Mozart's Queen of the Night aria in her final public performance at the village hall in Horsell, the Woking suburb where she was born.
An intelligent and popular student, she had a wonderful sense of humour, great determination to succeed, and was a caring and loyal friend. She also loved drama and history, and had achieved A-star grades in the coursework for a humanities GCSE, which she took two years early. Earlier this year, she volunteered to be interviewed for a BBC schools programme about inherited disease to be used as part of the GCSE science curriculum. She described how she felt about the constraints CF put on her daily activities; the disease affects more than 8,000 people across the UK. Although filming was tough, she enjoyed the experience.
Lorna loved to perform and had been a professional voice-over artist, recording radio adverts and DVDs with the likes of Nick Frost and Emma Forbes. Until her health deteriorated, she belonged to the Horsell-based Karen Clarke theatre school, where she took dance exams and performed the role of Molly in the musical Annie at the Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Woking.
Her friends in the wind band played an emotional farewell at her funeral, supported by music director and form tutor Steve Goodwin. They had just started learning Time to Say Goodbye, and dedicated the piece to her.
Lorna was a tremendous role model and even when she was really unwell, she never lost her vivacity or the sparkle in her eyes. She was beautiful inside and out. She is survived by her parents, Alison and Neil, and her brother Alex.
Her love of music was her main motivation. As first flute in the wind band at Woking high school, Surrey, she played concerts locally and on tour in Spain and Italy. A few weeks before her death, she passed her grade six flute and picccolo examination with merit; she had also taken up the saxophone. In March, she achieved her ambition to play a flute arrangement of Mozart's Queen of the Night aria in her final public performance at the village hall in Horsell, the Woking suburb where she was born.
An intelligent and popular student, she had a wonderful sense of humour, great determination to succeed, and was a caring and loyal friend. She also loved drama and history, and had achieved A-star grades in the coursework for a humanities GCSE, which she took two years early. Earlier this year, she volunteered to be interviewed for a BBC schools programme about inherited disease to be used as part of the GCSE science curriculum. She described how she felt about the constraints CF put on her daily activities; the disease affects more than 8,000 people across the UK. Although filming was tough, she enjoyed the experience.
Lorna loved to perform and had been a professional voice-over artist, recording radio adverts and DVDs with the likes of Nick Frost and Emma Forbes. Until her health deteriorated, she belonged to the Horsell-based Karen Clarke theatre school, where she took dance exams and performed the role of Molly in the musical Annie at the Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Woking.
Her friends in the wind band played an emotional farewell at her funeral, supported by music director and form tutor Steve Goodwin. They had just started learning Time to Say Goodbye, and dedicated the piece to her.
Lorna was a tremendous role model and even when she was really unwell, she never lost her vivacity or the sparkle in her eyes. She was beautiful inside and out. She is survived by her parents, Alison and Neil, and her brother Alex.
My daughter Lorna Paterson, who has died aged 14 from respiratory failure due to cystic fibrosis, was an inspirational teenager who touched the hearts of everyone who met her. She never let her CF get in the way of living life to the full.
Her love of music was her main motivation. As first flute in the wind band at Woking high school, Surrey, she played concerts locally and on tour in Spain and Italy. A few weeks before her death, she passed her grade six flute and picccolo examination with merit; she had also taken up the saxophone. In March, she achieved her ambition to play a flute arrangement of Mozart's Queen of the Night aria in her final public performance at the village hall in Horsell, the Woking suburb where she was born.
An intelligent and popular student, she had a wonderful sense of humour, great determination to succeed, and was a caring and loyal friend. She also loved drama and history, and had achieved A-star grades in the coursework for a humanities GCSE, which she took two years early. Earlier this year, she volunteered to be interviewed for a BBC schools programme about inherited disease to be used as part of the GCSE science curriculum. She described how she felt about the constraints CF put on her daily activities; the disease affects more than 8,000 people across the UK. Although filming was tough, she enjoyed the experience.
Lorna loved to perform and had been a professional voice-over artist, recording radio adverts and DVDs with the likes of Nick Frost and Emma Forbes. Until her health deteriorated, she belonged to the Horsell-based Karen Clarke theatre school, where she took dance exams and performed the role of Molly in the musical Annie at the Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Woking.
Her friends in the wind band played an emotional farewell at her funeral, supported by music director and form tutor Steve Goodwin. They had just started learning Time to Say Goodbye, and dedicated the piece to her.
Lorna was a tremendous role model and even when she was really unwell, she never lost her vivacity or the sparkle in her eyes. She was beautiful inside and out. She is survived by her parents, Alison and Neil, and her brother Alex.
Her love of music was her main motivation. As first flute in the wind band at Woking high school, Surrey, she played concerts locally and on tour in Spain and Italy. A few weeks before her death, she passed her grade six flute and picccolo examination with merit; she had also taken up the saxophone. In March, she achieved her ambition to play a flute arrangement of Mozart's Queen of the Night aria in her final public performance at the village hall in Horsell, the Woking suburb where she was born.
An intelligent and popular student, she had a wonderful sense of humour, great determination to succeed, and was a caring and loyal friend. She also loved drama and history, and had achieved A-star grades in the coursework for a humanities GCSE, which she took two years early. Earlier this year, she volunteered to be interviewed for a BBC schools programme about inherited disease to be used as part of the GCSE science curriculum. She described how she felt about the constraints CF put on her daily activities; the disease affects more than 8,000 people across the UK. Although filming was tough, she enjoyed the experience.
Lorna loved to perform and had been a professional voice-over artist, recording radio adverts and DVDs with the likes of Nick Frost and Emma Forbes. Until her health deteriorated, she belonged to the Horsell-based Karen Clarke theatre school, where she took dance exams and performed the role of Molly in the musical Annie at the Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Woking.
Her friends in the wind band played an emotional farewell at her funeral, supported by music director and form tutor Steve Goodwin. They had just started learning Time to Say Goodbye, and dedicated the piece to her.
Lorna was a tremendous role model and even when she was really unwell, she never lost her vivacity or the sparkle in her eyes. She was beautiful inside and out. She is survived by her parents, Alison and Neil, and her brother Alex.
