Former Doncaster resident Elizabeth Garcia, who handed away on the age of 70, fulfilled her ultimate want of travelling to house after her loss of life.
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Before her passing, Elizabeth organized to have her ashes scattered within the stratosphere, marking a rare tribute to her life. She was joined on the flight by her cat Chloe, who had handed away a while earlier than Elizabeth herself.
Born in St. Albans, Elizabeth’s early years have been marked by her pleasant character and confidence that blossomed throughout her upbringing in Doncaster along with her younger siblings Jean and John. She gained the Miss Yorkshire magnificence competitors throughout her teenage years.
In the early Eighties, she, her husband John, and their son Mark relocated to Barnsley and established a profitable business putting in suspended ceilings and acoustic insulation. Elizabeth’s sister Jean stated: “They loved travelling and socialising. She was a really beneficiant person serving to household and mates with out query.”
After being identified with a coronary heart situation that gave her roughly two years to reside, Elizabeth took the initiative to rearrange her personal funeral. Her ultimate want, to journey to house alongside her cat Chloe, led her to Aura Flights, a Sheffield-based house memorial supplier.
Jean remarked: “Her want was for her ashes to be despatched into house. She contacted Aura Flights who have been very attentive to her requests.”
Elle Lilley, the Client Care and Liaison at Aura Flights, spoke to Elizabeth recurrently via the reserving course of, and typically only for a chat. Elle stated: “It’s additional particular doing the launch for somebody you’ve got spoken with a lot — understanding how a lot she wished to be scattered in house and having the ability to fulfil that for her actually was a rewarding and heart-warming feeling.”
Elizabeth’s ashes travelled over 100,000 toes above the Earth in Aura Flights’ scatter vessel, which was lifted by a specialist stratospheric balloon crammed with lighter-than-air hydrogen gasoline. {A photograph} of Elizabeth adorned the clever scatter vessel, which launched her ashes in a delicate cascade at peak altitude, permitting them to journey the world via stratospheric winds.
The memorial flight and house scattering have been filmed by cameras aboard the spacecraft, and the ensuing footage was used to create the memorial video which included choose clips from the flight, interspersed with photographs of Elizabeth and messages from family members.
Less than two months after celebrating her seventieth birthday, family members have been watching Elizabeth and Chloe’s ultimate journey into house. Emotions ran excessive as they launched into their celestial voyage, fulfilling Elizabeth’s dream. Jean stated: “It was emotional, however particular, understanding this was precisely what Elizabeth wished, she would have been elated with the end result, as have been all of us.”
*Aura Flights is a division of Sent Into Space, the world’s main operator of business Near Space launches. Sent Into Space was based in 2011 and has carried out over 1,000 flights from websites world wide, for purchasers within the scientific, engineering, cinematography and advertising industries.
The ashes scattering service was launched in 2017 and appeared on BBC Dragons’ Den.
