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Mon 10 Dec 2007
Tributes paid to tragic young mother
Sarah Baggott, from Leiston, fell ill with a stomach pain and she died within 12 weeks of being told that she had bowel cancer.

Her husband Colin Baggott said: “She was not worried about herself, she was worried about our three children. That was the sort of person she was and she devoted her life to the kids.

“We were married seven years and we had a brilliant life together - they were the best seven years of my life.”

The funeral service of Mrs Baggott, 28, of Central Road, was held on Thursday in the town's St Margaret's Church.

She was very well known in the area - she had been a hairdresser in Aldeburgh before giving up work to look after their children - and the church was packed.

The mourners were asked to wear pink, Mrs Baggott's favourite colour, and the Aerosmith song I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing was played. This was the tune that Mrs Baggott played every morning as she got herself ready for the day.

Her parents, Stan and Liz Knights, live in Garrett Crescent, Leiston, and their daughter attended the town's middle and high schools before becoming a hairdresser.

She met Mr Baggott when he played darts with her father at the Homeguard social club in Leiston.

The couple were married at the register office in Woodbridge and they had three children, Brandon, seven, Jack, four and Millie, who celebrated her third birthday yesterday.

Mrs Baggott enjoyed being a housewife and she was a “fit and healthy” mother until she had stomach pains in August.

She attended the hospital in Aldeburgh and then went to Ipswich Hospital where doctors operated on her bowel cancer.

Mr Baggott, 46, said: “She took it really well. She was in chemotherapy and she was getting better. She was doing really well. But she picked up a stomach bug from somewhere and went downhill from then on.

“It was a Friday evening (November 23) when she was rushed from one part of the hospital to the intensive care unit and then she suffered a massive heart attack or something.

“They resuscitated her twice but she never recovered from that and she died on the Sunday, November 25, in Ipswich Hospital. It is unbelievable how quick she died.”

Mr Baggott has given up his job as a self-employed painter in Leiston to look after the children full time.

He added: “The children are coping quite well but they are too young to understand. I will cope somehow - the children will get me through everything.”

Nick Treeby, new bar manager at the Black Horse pub, Leiston, lives next door to the family and he is organising a fundraising night for them at the pub.

It will take place on December 15 from 8pm to 1.30am. Tickets cost £5 and need to be bought in advance from Mr Treeby on 078899 01112.

Mr Treeby said: “I have only been here a few weeks but I think the people in Leiston are a caring bunch and I am sure they will come out and support the event.

“Sarah was a lovely lady and we are just trying to make a lovely Christmas for a family that has had some devastating news. Colin now has to look after three young children and, as a father of two children myself, I have some idea what that is like.”

Donations at Mrs Baggott's funeral were given to Cancer Research UK. She had three brothers, Adam, Simon and Dale Knights.