MUM WILL SKYDIVE IN MEMORY OF HUSBAND SHE LOST A WEEK AFTER WEDDING
AYOUNG mum who lost her husband to cancer just a week after they were married is planning a charity skydive in his memory.
Seren Williams, 21, from Cardiff, will complete the jump following the death of husband Paul last Friday from bone cancer, also known as Ewing Sarcoma.
She said Mr Williams, 23, had wanted to do the dive but never got the chance.
Mrs Williams said: “I want to do it around September or October time.”
The pair, who have a one-year-old daughter named Amelia-Mae, married following a social media fundraising drive by family members and with help from charity Wish for a Wedding.
Mrs Williams says she is “petrified of heights”, but determined to overcome her phobia to raise money for cancer research.
She said: “I’m scared, but I’m doing it for Paul.”
She said the skydive is designed to “raise more awareness and raise more funding so more things can be done to prevent another family going through what we have”.
Mr Williams asked his wife to marry him moments after being told he had only months to live.
Mrs Williams added: “I’m still upset and obviously still very emotional – the fact that he’s not here with me any more.
“I’m still a bit numb – it still doesn’t feel real.”
She has described her husband as a “lovable man”, who “cared for everybody else before himself ”.
Mrs Williams said she will tell their daughter Amelia-Mae that she can always talk to her father though he “just can’t answer any more” and that he “loved her very much and always will”.
The family has had a memory box made for Amelia-Mae decorated with the message “Daddy loves you”.
It contains a wedding DVD, handprint necklaces and a collection of birthday cards her father wrote for her that she can open until she turns 21.
Mrs Williams said her daughter has asked for her father since his death.
“It looks like she’s been looking around the house for him. It’s hard, very hard.”
Her husband was a rugby fan who was involved with confidence-building social inclusion charity the School of Hard Knocks.
The couple met in Victoria Park, in Cardiff, and Mrs Williams said they became “inseparable”.
The family had donations of outfits, a bride’s dress and rings for their wedding.
Less than three weeks after their nuptials at the Church of the Resurrection, in Cardiff, Mr Williams’ funeral is being held in the same church at 12.30pm on Wednesday.
Donations towards the cost of the funeral can be made at www.gofundme. com/2a7yhyy4