Comic laid to rest after hundreds pay tribute
Janey Godley’s funeral is just about to start at St Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow.
The service is being steamed and can be viewed below:
The service is led by the Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow, the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, who began by praising the ‘love and joy’ the comedian brought into the world.
Hymns led by the cathedral choir include Make Me a Channel of Your Peace and Hail, Queen of Heav’n, the Ocean Star, while Billy Holiday’s God Bless the Child was offered as music for reflection.
The ceremony comes after hundreds of people lined the streets of Edinburgh yesterday to pay their final respects.
Her hearse drove through the centre of the city that her daughter Ashley Storrie described as her ‘beloved festival home’ ahead of her funeral in Glasgow today.
Written on the side of the vehicle was ‘Frank, get the door’ – her catchphrase from the viral videos she made during the pandemic, revoicing Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid briefings.
Several mourners had signs and T-shirts bearing the phrase, while one woman recreated Godley’s most memorial viral moment: holding the same ‘Trump is a cunt’ message that the comedian took the US President’s Scottish golf course in Turnberry.
Crowds applaud the coffin throughout its slow journey across the city, as the strains of Amazing Grace rang out.
Comforted by friends, a distraught Storriewalked with the cortege as it travelled along the Royal Mile and Lawnmarket with a ‘pause for reflection’ at St Giles’ Cathedral where a minute’s silence was observed, before a choir sang a moving a cappella version of Elbow’s One Day Like This
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Here is footage of the procession:
When her mum’s ‘last tour’ of Edinburgh and Glasgow was announced, Storrie said: ‘For the past few years of Ma’s life, it was important to her that she shared her journey with everyone, to offer support for others on the same path and to highlight the symptoms of ovarian cancer – all of course in her very singular Janey style, with laughter and candour.
‘So many of you who have travelled with us on this journey wish to bid her a final farewell, so here’s the details of my mum’s final tour, in the two cities she loved with all her heart.’
Godley died on November 2 at the age of 63 in the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow, where she was receiving palliative care for terminal cancer.
Published: 30 Nov 2024
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