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Tributes paid to 'radiant' mum who collapsed and died after holiday

Tributes have been paid to a mum-of-four who tragically died just days after returning home from a holiday. Jennifer Moseley, 45, collapsed at her farm in Caverswall, Staffordshire, shortly after milking the cows.

Her devastated partner David explained that she had complained of pains in her chest two weeks earlier with medics believing that she had strained a muscle. The couple had even managed to go on a mini-break to Llandudno when her health improved.

David, 48, has now been left questioning whether the doctors missed something that led to Jennifer's death on the evening of June 23. The family are awaiting postmortem results to find out the cause of death, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.

He said: "She was across the yard, looking after her horses, she loved horses. Somebody came on to the farm and she went up to them as she does with anyone. She said she felt unwell, turned around to go in and just collapsed on the yard.

"A fortnight before she died she had been unwell. She had pains in her chest but the doctor said she’d hurt a muscle in her chest. The doctors gave her a blood test but they should have given her a scan. I don’t know what they missed, she had so much pain she could hardly stand up. She was delirious.

The family recently opened up a milkshake shop with fresh milk from their farm in May. David said it was running successfully (Stoke-on-Trent Live)

“They gave her some painkillers and when she came home she got better and better. We had just been to Llandudno for two days. She didn’t feel unwell on the holiday. She looked radiant to be honest. She always did do no matter what she was doing."

Jennifer grew up at Ash Bank and attended Moorside High School before studying environmental sciences at Staffordshire University. She met David in a pub in Hanley in 1998 and they went on to have four boys together - James, Edward, Harry and Jack who were born between 2002 and 2008.

David added: “When we met in the pub she was talking to somebody I knew, it was her cousin. I just went up to talk to her. It was just her smile, she stood out to me. I didn’t see her for a few weeks after that then eventually I went to the same pub again and there she was.

“We went out for about six months, we bought a house in Weston Coyney, we were there for a short while and then we got a Staffordshire County Council farm in Stafford. We were there for three years and we had our first child, James, there in 2002.”

Jennifer and three of her four boys (Stoke-on-Trent Live)

More recently the couple had launched their milkshake parlour, Caverswall Creamery, at their Roughcoat Lane farm where they keep 150 cows.

David described Jennifer as 'the backbone' of their dairy farm which they had taken on following the retirement of his parents Derek and Joyce Moseley. He added: “She would do everything, she wouldn’t turn her nose away from anything. She was milking the night she died. Feeding, calving, anything you asked her to do she’d do it.

“She was so busy here, whatever happened, if anything went wrong she’d always smile, there was never ever any problem.”

David continued: “It’s strange, recently, she’s seen quite a few people that she hasn’t seen for a long time. It was almost as though she was meant to see them. She got on with everybody, she had the biggest smile you could ever imagine. Nobody ever had a bad word to say about her and people in the village loved her.”

Their eldest son James added: “Her glass was always half full."

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