Family’s grief at adventure-loving daughter’s death
A grieving mother has spoken about her adventurous but sensible daughter who died while on holiday.
Rosalind Fuller, who lived in Barming, was described as the sort of person who would always do the right thing.
The 24-year-old, known as Roz, was on an adventure holiday in the Turkish coastal town of Kas when she took a wrong turn on a bike ride and cycled into a fiveway junction where she was hit by a taxi, an inquest opening heard last week.
It was the fifth holiday she had been on this year, having gone away with her family twice and on another two adventure holidays by herself.
Her mother, Margaret, said the close-knit family, including Rosalind’s father, Les, and older brother, Alex, had been left heartbroken.
Mrs Fuller said: “We are all devastated. She was our whole life.
“It would have broken my parents and parents-in-law if they were still alive.”
After leaving school, Rosalind did an apprenticeship at Network Rail, and after qualifying a couple of years ago she started working in the company’s telecommunications team, which meant she was regularly climbing towers to carry out maintenance work.
Her depot was based in Ashford but she worked all around the county. She was also doing an Open University degree in business management.
Mrs Fuller said her daughter moved into her own place in Fennel Close, Barming, a year ago.
Rosalind had a lot of friends, and Mrs Fuller said she was “everybody’s agony aunt because she listened and was sensible”.
But she was also generous, feisty and had a dry sense of humour. Rosalind was a keen swimmer and competed at Medway, Kent and regional level.
Rosalind died on Friday, October 23.
A provisional date of Tuesday February 2 has been given for a full inquest.
Rosalind’s funeral will be held on Wednesday December 2 at 11am at Medway Crematorium.
Everyone is welcome. Family flowers only, but donations can be made to the Gravesend lifeboat station (RNLI).