Article: Joanna was the life and soul of the party.(Obituary)

Family devastated at suicide of fashion designer

By Jo Rostron

A HEARTBROKEN Leeds family have today paid tribute to a 'bubbly and beautiful' fashion designer who has died.

The funeral of Joanna McCabe will take place tomorrow after the 31-year-old took her own life last week.

Today her devastated family, from Wetherby Grove, Burley, described Joanna as the 'life and soul of the party'.

Parents Teresa, aged 54, and Sean McCabe, 57, both originally from Ireland, said: "She loved going out and about in Leeds - anywhere there was a party! She always had a book on the go and she loved playing pranks to wind people up.

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