THE shattered family of tragic Oswaldtwistle baby Ava-Jai McInerney said their final farewells yesterday.
The ‘constantly smiling’ 14-month-old died of a mystery illness after bravely beating leukaemia.
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Her tiny coffin was taken by horse and carriage from the family home in Apple Tree Way to Pleasington Crematorium.
It was there that mourners dressed in pink gathered to pay their respects.
Ava-Jai had a bone marrow transplant in April to stop her cancer returning, but MRI scans found her brain was losing mass.
After doctors said there was nothing more that could be done, Ava-Jai died in her parents’ arms in the early hours on Friday, October 10.
She left behind mum Janine, dad Chris, twin brother William, and elder brother Brandon, 18.
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