{"id":380103,"date":"2025-12-31T20:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380103\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:39:16","slug":"tributes-to-kind-and-brilliant-mum-and-kids-killed-in-boxing-day-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380103\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes to ‘kind and brilliant’ mum and kids killed in Boxing Day fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe SkirkowskiWest of England<\/p>\n

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Fionnghuala Shearman and her daughter Eve and son Ohner died in the fire on Boxing Day<\/p>\n

Tributes have been pouring in for a “warm and caring” mother and her two young children who were killed in a house fire on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n

Seven-year-old Eve, four-year-old Ohner, and their mother, Fionnghuala Shearman died after a fire engulfed their home on Brimscombe Hill<\/a> in Stroud. Tom Shearman escaped the burning house and tried multiple times to re-enter to save his family.<\/p>\n

Since the tragedy<\/a>, a sanctuary has been opened to allow people to mourn together, and a bonfire event has been cancelled out of respect. <\/p>\n

Resident Sarah Jones said: “She was absolutely delightful. She was warm, caring and a loving person.”<\/p>\n

Members of a community restaurant have cut their Christmas break short to open as a sanctuary for people to meet and for the emergency services to be given homemade refreshments.<\/p>\n

Tom Herbert, founder of The Long Table at Brimscombe Mill, said: “We want them to know that they’re in our hearts and in our prayers and we’re just open for people who don’t know what to do with those feelings.”<\/p>\n

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Floral tributes have been placed near to the home<\/p>\n

Ms Shearman, also known as Nu, was a fashion designer and tributes have been pouring in from the knitting community.<\/p>\n

Glasgow-based arts and crafts shop For the Love of Yarn described Nu as “a bubbly special creative whose product we all know and love”.<\/p>\n

“Nu was the brilliant mind and creative force behind Hide & Hammer, and a truly thoughtful and generous woman,” said Montreal based shop Les Garcons Boutique.<\/p>\n

“Working with her was a privilege, but being her friends was the real gift. Her kindness, her humour, her crazy ideas. How many projects have we pitched all together?” they added.<\/p>\n

Knitters are also being asked to contribute to a knitted crochet flower that will be placed on Brimscombe’s war memorial, with drop off locations available at local businesses.<\/p>\n

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Ms Jones lives near the Shearman’s home and knew the family<\/p>\n

Ms Jones has joined local volunteers to prepare soup for the emergency workers.<\/p>\n

“It’s absolutely devastating, the word shocked gets bandied about but we don’t know what to think, what to say,” she said.<\/p>\n

“There’s a real need from everyone I’ve spoken to be together, to want to be together and to support each other,” she added.<\/p>\n

“There really aren’t any words to describe how impossible it is, how deep the shock is and how hard it is to process, I think it’s going to take a lot of time and a lot of support and talking to each other.”<\/p>\n

Holy Trinity Church in Brimscombe will also remain open to allow people to “grieve together” in the wake of the “terrible tragedy,” Rev Peter Francis told the BBC.<\/p>\n

A fundraiser set up to financially support Mr Shearman and help him rebuild has so far reached more than \u00a3300,000.<\/p>\n

Out of respect, nearby Burleigh Court has cancelled its New Year’s Eve fireworks display and will instead make a donation in support of the family.<\/p>\n

Work will now take place to make the building safe to enable Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service to investigate the cause of the fire. <\/p>\n

However, police have confirmed that there are no suspicious circumstances around the blaze’s cause. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe SkirkowskiWest of England Facebook Fionnghuala Shearman and her daughter Eve and son Ohner died in the fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-380103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}