Daughter of Buxton woman killed in flat fire fundraising for headstone for her

Katie Jackson’s mum Tracey Jackson, 44, died last month when her Carlisle Road flat caught fire.

Firefighters found Tracey inside her home after being called at 8.44am on January 22 however she was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.

Daughter Katie - who was removed from her mother’s care along with her sister and three brothers as a young child - is desperate to see her mother’s grave marked with a decent headstone.

Her burial is being funded by the council however the cost of a headstone is not covered.

Though her mother - who is remembered as ‘lighting up a room with her smile and her laugh’ - will have no church service Katie, 23, wants to organise a celebration of Tracey’s life for all those who knew her.

She said: “I don’t know many of my family or my mum’s friends - but this is for them as well.

“So many people have messaged me and said how lovely she was.”

Photography student Katie went to live with her grandmother aged eight along with her sister Chloe.

Twenty-three-year-old Chloe - who had ‘on-and-off’ contact with Tracey from the age of 17 - told how losing her children had ‘broken’ her mother.

She said: “She was never a bad person - she just had issues but I’ll always love her.

“Lots of people tried to help her but I think a lot of her issues stemmed from her childhood - she had a rough upbringing and some people can’t ever forget.”

Katie told how two of Katie’s brothers were adopted aged three and one, while another was six-weeks-old when he went to live with his father.

She said: “I can’t imagine how she (Tracey) felt - but I think she always knew or hoped some of us would come back and find her.

“But I think she always knew when we were taken away we were better off.”

To make a donation to Tracey’s headstone and life celebration fund click HERE.