TV presenter Catriona Rowntree has shared her heartbreak and devastation after losing her beloved sister to cancer.<\/p>\n
Rowntree revealed on Friday evening that her older sibling and \u201cworld\u2019s best mum\u201d Lucinda Wunderlich had passed away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am heartbroken to share that my beautiful, big sister Lucinda, passed away today,\u201d Rowntree shared on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cLucinda truly \u2018threw kindness around like confetti\u2019, everyone adored her. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe apple of my parents eyes, Lucinda went on to marry her first sweetheart, Johnno. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey travelled the world together, Lucinda achieved her Teachers Degree, then settled down to focus on her one true love, her family of four children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucinda was diagnosed three years ago with stage 4 cancer and had gone on a US trial which Rowntree had said a year later had succeeded in shrinking her tumours.<\/p>\n
Rowntree started a GoFundMe to help the family.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll agree \u2018worlds best Mum\u2019, Lucinda had a talent with children and even had a gift store named after her beloved daughter Daisy!\u201d Rowntree continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeaching has been her focus the last few years and equally all her students agree they\u2019ve been blessed to have her in their lives. Her health journey has seen our family experience so much kindness from others, thankyou so very much, it\u2019s been treasured. <\/p>\n
\u201cGo ahead and support @dreams2live4.aus \u201c| didn\u2019t know about them until recently, they\u2019re good people. I am just so sad to share that tonight, heaven has a new angel, our beautiful Lucinda. #rip #lucinda #heartbroken #cancersucks X #heavenhasanewangel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rowntree shared some treasure pictures of her sister and her family. She had also undergone chemotherapy.<\/p>\n
Rowntree said Lucinda had connected deeply to a charity called Dreams to Live 4, granting wishes to adults with Stage 4 cancer and the family had now helped raise money and awareness for them.<\/p>\n
It was in April 2023 Rowntree had spoken of her sister\u2019s plight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying so hard to choose my words carefully here, other than to say a lot of tears have been shed, BUT Lucinda is fighting and positive. We all are. She has started chemo (sheer hell) and immunotherapy (our bright light) at #royalnorthshorehospital Lucinda is now unable to work as she commits to the fight of her life,\u201d Rowntree wrote at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer girlfriends have created a #GoFundMe page to ease the household stress and I\u2019ve asked her permission to share this with you. Lucinda is the first to be placed on a new medical trial, that may one day help a loved one of yours. So, if you\u2019d like to donate, thankyou, trust me when I say to live your life to the absolute max, none of us know what each moment holds for us and please say a little prayer for Lucinda tonight. Thankyou.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV presenter Catriona Rowntree has shared her heartbreak and devastation after losing her beloved sister to cancer. Rowntree…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-598010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598010","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=598010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}