Janey Godley will say her final goodbye to ”the city she loved” on Friday with a 100-strong female choir and best pal Shirley Doig to walk alongside the much-loved comedians hearse. Janey will head on a “final tour” of Edinburgh after the stand-up comedian sadly died on November 2.
The hearse organised by funeral directors Alexander Whitelaw & Co. will start Janey’s final farewell to Edinburgh from Lawnmarket at 2.30pm on Friday. She will travel down The Royal Mile towards St Giles Cathedral and pause for reflection, before the all-female 100-piece Sound House Choir and friends sing.
It comes as daughter Ashley Storrie revealed her mum will be given a huge send off, allowing well-wishers the chance to pay their respects. Janey, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer, will pay one last trip to her “beloved Festival Home” before being brought back home to Glasgow.
Ashley, 38, shared the plans on social media, detailing how Janey’s farewell will take place on Friday, November 29 and St Andrew’s Day, Saturday, November 30.
In a post on Ashley’s instagram, she said: “Here’s the details of Janey’s final tour, thank you for all the love and kindness in this past week. 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.”
From St Giles Cathedral whthe hearse will then carry on to Cockburn Street, Market Street before heading back to Glasgow. Janey is then set for a St Andrew’s Day send-off on Saturday with a service at St Mary’s Cathedral on Great Western Road at 10am.
The hearse and coaches will then leave for the crematorium and head along Great Western Road. A private service will be held at the crematorium.
Rather than flowers, Janey’s wishes were for donations to be sent in for the Princess of Wales Hospice, where she spent her final days. Janey also asked for bright colours to be worn by mourners on the day of her funeral.
Janey was surrounded by loved ones when she died earlier this month in a hospice. Janey was best known for her legendary voiceovers of Nicola Sturgeon during the Covid pandemic.
Her manager, Chris Davis last week said: “She will be remembered for her legendary voiceovers of Nicola Sturgeon during the pandemic, her hilarious and outspoken comedy, but most of all for just being ‘Janey’.”
The comedian who also went viral for a hilarious one-woman protest outside Donald Trump’s Turnberry Hotel in Ayrshire, shared the news she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in November 2021. Janey revealed in September this year that despite years of treatment she was receiving palliative care at a hospice.
Before her death Janey received one last Hospice call from Billy Connolly. The Big Yin put a smile on the brave mum’s face with a “disgusting” and hilarious final chat.
Janey posted on X: “A Florida phone call from an old Glasgow pal can fair cheer me up. Same old darkest, offensive, humour and plethora of disgusting swearing as always! Laughter abound! What a smile though – what a man – may comedy always be as offensively funny now and forever.”
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