A grandmother died after being hit on the head by a rugby ball while watching her grandson play.
Jennifer Selwood, 69, had been watching Ellis Rossiter on January 12 when she was hit by a stray ball from the adjoining pitch.
The grandmother fell to the ground and was rushed to hospital - where she fell into a coma for two weeks, and tragically died on January 25.
An inquest hearing was told the cause of death was traumatic brain injury with secondary aplastic anaemia, which makes it difficult to clot a bleed.
Her husband Colin, children Clare and Daniel, and four grandchildren, have been left "completely devastated" by the shocking death of their "family compass".
Her daughter, Claire Rossiter, said: "We're completely devastated, just broken.
"She's really missed. Mum was the family compass, she was a huge part of our everyday life.
"We've got a huge hole where she was. We feel robbed of a mum, a grandmother, a wife."
Mrs Selwood had been watching Daniel's son Ellis playing for Taunton Under 11s at the Towergate Stadium in Bathpool, Somerset, when she was hit on the head.
She was treated beside the pitch before being rushed to nearby Musgrove Park Hospital.
Claire said: "She told Ellis, 'I'll stay for another five minutes', and the next thing she's hit by a ball and falls to the ground.
"People rushed over to help. The paramedics said she had concussion.
"I was waiting for her when she came out of the ambulance at Musgrove. I said, 'I thought you were watching rugby, not playing'.
"Within an hour they told us it was serious and she was taken to Southmead.
"We spent two weeks driving up to Bristol praying she was going to wake up.
"Then on Friday (January 24) they called into her room and said, 'We're very sorry, this is the end of her life. There's nothing we can do'.
"She died the following afternoon. It was a complete shock."
As a girl, Mrs Selwood, who lived in Taunton all her life, attended Castle School, where at 16 she met husband Colin.
She worked at the former Brettons restaurant in East Reach, as a dinner lady at Thurlbear Primary School and in Debenhams offices.
Claire added: "Mum was the family compass. She was everything to my dad. Life revolved around the family.
"She was very happy, always laughing at something, full of fun.
"She had lots of friends and was always up and about in town with me. She was very busy."
Taunton RFC chairman John Wrelton said: "We're desperately sorry and our sympathies are with the family.
"One of our young players' grandmother was watching her grandson play like thousands of other grandparents all over the country.
"It was a horrible and horrendous accident."
