Manchester girl’s tribute to mother at funeral
SHE was pictured in a state of shock in the immediate aftermath of the Manchester terror attack, being comforted by a policewoman.
It emerged that Millie Kiss, 12, had lost her mother Michelle in the suicide bomb blast that killed 22.
Yesterday, the schoolgirl attended the funeral to mark her terrible loss – with her own moving tribute read out to the hundreds of mourners.
Millie said to her 45-year-old mother: ‘You were taken away too soon. I ask myself every day why do the good people get given the worst things?
‘Life is going to be so different without my mum by my side but I am going to remember you, mum, with your beautiful smile and pretty face and sparkling eyes. I love you all the way to the moon and back and a billion times more.’
Earlier on Millie had walked behind her mother’s hearse to St Alban’s church in Blackburn, Lancashire, with her brothers Dylan, 20, Elliot, 17, and their father Tony. The coffin was carried in on the shoulders of Mrs Kiss’s husband and sons as a choir sang Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
Widower Mr Kiss called for everyone affected by the outrage committed by Salman Abedi, 22, to ‘choose love’ in response. He said in his address: ‘Michelle was a devoted mother, daughter and sister, and family was at the heart of everything she did.
‘Our lives have been changed forever by these horrific events but we are asking people to please choose love, because that’s what we as a family are doing now.’
Mrs Kiss had run a scaffolding business with her husband and had recently begun a course at Salford University.