As the clouds cleared and the sun shone down, hundreds said their goodbyes to a "gorgeous" carer who died, aged 23.
Horses wearing green pulled a carriage carrying Katie Davenport, a daughter, sister and girlfriend who was "loved by all those around her" before she died last month. The carer was on a night out in her hometown Southport when she fell from a fire escape at Hey Amigos shortly before 3am on Sunday, September 4, before dying in hospital 13 days later on Saturday, September 17.
Almost a month after Katie's death, her friends and family gathered at West Lancashire Cemetery and Crematorium to say their final goodbyes. Those attending wore green to remember the loved young woman and stood in the auditorium as Tenerife Sea, by Ed Sheeran, played before her family carried the white coffin in.
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One tribute pinned to the family flowers, one of Katie's younger sisters, Cassie, wrote: "I will love you forever. I'm sorry your life got cut short but you'll be dancing in the sky with uncle Baz. Love from your younger sister, Cass."
In another tribute attached to the flowers, it said: "Rest in peace Kate. Words cannot describe how much we are going to miss you, look after Gaz and Baz up there. So sorry this has happened to you. If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever. Sleep tight angel, love smell."
Shortly after Katie's death, her older sister Lianne paid tribute to the straight-A* student who was about to buy her first home with her boyfriend Niall. Lianne told the ECHO at the time: "She was the most gorgeous person and everyone loved her.
"No one ever said a bad thing about her. She was so work-driven and she loved her job. She gave everything to her job and she gave everything that she had to make sure the residents at the home were okay.
"She was never bothered about drinking and clubbing. It's destroyed us. Out of the three of us, she was the only one with her head screwed on."
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