{"id":130942,"date":"2025-09-09T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130942\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:25:08","slug":"coral-kerr-tributes-flow-for-90-year-old-grandmother-of-matildas-star-sam-kerr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130942\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral Kerr: Tributes flow for 90-year-old grandmother of Matildas star Sam Kerr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Kerr\u2019s family are mourning the loss of the Matildas star\u2019s grandmother Coral.<\/p>\n

An obituary published in The West Australian<\/a> last week said Coral Kerr had died but that \u201c her presence is felt in every shared memory and quiet reflections\u201d.<\/p>\n

A funeral for Ms Kerr was held on Tuesday morning in Palmyra.<\/p>\n

Coral migrated from India to Australia with her husband more than 50 years ago \u2014 helping pave the way for her granddaughter\u2019s successful soccer career.<\/p>\n

In 2020 she said watching Sam represent Australia\u2019s national side was \u201cabsolutely amazing\u201d.<\/p>\n

The obituary published last week said \u201cbe at peace knowing you will never be forgotten\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cMum and mum-in-law to Phillip and Dominique, grandmother to Dylan, Kasi, Logan, Jake and Britoni. Great grandmother to Saskia, Ophelia, Abel, Ivar, Jake,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The death notice did not include Sam Kerr\u2019s name, or mention her brother Daniel, father Roger and mother Roxanne.<\/p>\n

\"SamCamera IconSam Kerr’s grandmother Coral Kerr has been identified as the elderly woman who was struck by a driver at a bus stop on Friday, leaving the then 89-year-old fighting for her life in hospital. Credit: NINE NEWS\/NINE NEWS<\/p>\n

Coral Kerr was badly injured in a horror crash near her home in December. She underwent major surgery and was seen in April happily back with family for her 90th birthday, recovering from her injuries.<\/p>\n

At her 90th birthday in April she had no recollection of the moment she was hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought I\u2019d see this age and after that accident,\u201d she said, standing unassisted months after being injured.<\/p>\n

Sam Kerr\u2019s father, Roger, told The West in the wake of the December crash that she was \u201cgoing pretty well\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s had both her hips done, her pelvis done, a rod in her knee, two broken ankles . . . she\u2019s come through all of it,\u201d Mr Kerr said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a real strong lady, naturally she\u2019s a bit upset because she can\u2019t move around and it\u2019s going to take her a long time to move, but she\u2019s in good health and good spirits, that\u2019s the main thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm and will next face court in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Kerr\u2019s family are mourning the loss of the Matildas star\u2019s grandmother Coral. An obituary published in The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,44,13198,588,85,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-130942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-soccer","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}