Getaway host Catriona Rowntree has shared the devastating news of her sister\u2019s death. <\/p>\n
Writing on Instagram on Friday night, the star said that \u201cheaven has a new angel\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am heartbroken to share that my beautiful, big sister Lucinda, passed away today,\u201d Catriona, 54, wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cLucinda truly \u2018threw kindness around like confetti\u2019, everyone adored her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucinda, a teacher and mother of four, had been battling stage four cancer for a number of years.<\/p>\n
Catriona thanked the people who supported her sister through her difficult health journey, saying: \u201cour family experience so much kindness from others, thankyou so very much, it\u2019s been treasured.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also gave a shoutout to the Dreams2Live4 charity which offers support to adults with terminal cancer, giving them the opportunity to do something they\u2019ve always wanted to do. In Lucinda\u2019s case, it was meet a quokka, which she was able to do a couple of years ago. <\/p>\n
The post was met with lots of love including from fellow Channel 9 star Shelley Craft who wrote: \u201cThinking of you and all your family. Such beautiful words filled with love for your sister. I\u2019m so sorry for your loss.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBeautiful words Treens. How truly sad I feel for you and the fam,\u201d wrote Jules Lund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getaway host Catriona Rowntree has shared the devastating news of her sister\u2019s death. Writing on Instagram on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-598205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598205","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=598205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}