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23.01.2024 - 07:11 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
In life and in death, Margo Vaughan was different. When she is taken to her final resting place today (Tuesday) it will not be in a black hearse but a Salford Van Hire vehicle.
And she left family another instruction to be followed after she died - "no undertakers, no fridges". So she has been kept in a casket at her home in Bury since her death last week.
Today, the van and mourners will travel to Cumbria where she will be laid to rest on a private estate to the sound of thirteen pieces of music including The Dambusters overture from the famous 1955 British war film, composed by Eric Coates, and Number One Song in Heaven by Sparks.
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Her daughter, Persis, 30, said: "Mum was super animated, adventurous and a massive laugh. [She had a] wicked, often dark sense of humour - hence buying the Victorian style white nightie for her to wear in her casket so she can ‘come back’ as a ghost.
"She spent some of her youth as a hippie then discovered punk. Massively into the Manchester music scene, she used to kick about with the likes of The Fall and Joy Division, on the new wave post punk scene in Manchester. She used to be married to the singer guitarist in Gods Gift.
"She grew up in poverty, her family always struggled but she did extremely well at school and she was the first of the family to go to university. She studied art at Liverpool. She was extremely creative and well read and well travelled. She used to go to Venice for the Carnival, she went a few years in a row. She travelled Europe teaching English.
"Mum and I did the Camino De Santiago in 2015, the pilgrimage route across the north of Spain, staying in albergues and hostels along the way. She loved
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