Beryl Lichtenstein obituary

My mother, Beryl Lichtenstein, who has died aged 94, was a co-founder of the Bracken Trust, set up in 1995 to offer cancer support, counselling and complementary therapies to people in mid-Wales.Beryl believed in service to others and the importance of community. These values led her to start a weekly cancer support lunch group in Llandrindod Wells, the small mid-Wales town where she spent most of her adult life. Beryl’s meals combined ideas about food from Bristol Cancer Care with her own loving presence. The springboard was Beryl’s cancer experience – treatment, surgery and consultant specialists were fragmented between Cardiff, Hereford and Cheltenham. Radiotherapy was especially gruelling. Continue reading...