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Tributes have been paid to an "amazing" mum and "lovely" dad who have tragically died within weeks of each other - leaving behind their 10-year-old son, two grown-up daughters and two adult sons. Jill Skivington, 46, and her partner of 15 years Gary Armstrong, 49, have been remembered for being dedicated to their children and each other.
Jill lost her life last Thursday (May 12) after suffering a heart attack and a catastrophic stroke four weeks after Gary passed away following a cardiac arrest, reports ChronicleLive. The couple leave behind their son Alfie, who has autism, as well as Jill's daughters Katy, 21, and Ellie, 22, who saw Gary as their father, and Gary's two twin sons from a previous relationship, Tom and Dean, 23.
Jill's brother Andrew, 42, said: "It's really bad luck, it's horrendous. We'll try to be there as much as we can but we can never be a mother. Gary was good fun and he was always there for them. If you take one parent out you can cope and help fill that hole - but when you take both out it's a really big hole you have got to fill. It's just very sad."
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Concerns had been raised about Gary, who worked as shutter engineer and was from Wallsend near Newcastle upon Tyne, after he didn't show up to work on April 13. Jill's brother Andrew and her daughter Katy went to check on him at home and sadly found he had died on the sofa while watching TV.
"He had been to Jill's, watched telly and then he went home," Andrew said. "The next day he didn't turn up at work. Me and Katy went down, we had to break in, and he was dead on the settee. Jill was inconsolable, she was devastated."
A few weeks later, on May 1, Katy and
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