Overview
- Joanne Morrison, 61, died in Suffolk on March 13 after doctors found two brain tumours in August 2025, one inoperable.
- She had earlier beaten advanced cervical cancer at 26 and a later brain tumour at 43 while serving as a physical instructor in the Women’s Royal Army Corps.
- Emergency brain surgery left her with epilepsy and severe left‑side mobility loss, and she spent two years learning to walk before winning bodybuilding titles.
- After rehab she worked as a health coach, wrote Finding the Other Me, and pursued a master’s in psychology and the neuroscience of mental health at King’s College London.
- She spent her final months in a Suffolk care home near her sister as friends, led by Janet O’Byrne, praised her drive in tributes carried by The Argus, the Express and the Daily Star.