3 March 1973 – 26 June 2025
3 March 1973 – 26 June 2025
Suddenly at Concord Hospital, Sydney on Thursday, 26 June 2025, aged 52. Cherished daughter of Audrey. Much loved sister of Sonia, Angela, Jonathan (dec), and Joanna. Adored auntie of all her nieces and nephews. Dearly missed by her cats Lola and Molly.
Messages to the Family may be left here.
A memorial service to celebrate Jody’s life will be held at Eagars Te Henui Chapel, 174 Lemon Street, New Plymouth on Wednesday 23 July 2025 at 10.30am.
In preference to flowers, please consider a donation to Heart Foundation NZ.
For those unable to attend, Jody’s funeral will be livestreamed here.

Funeral service held at Eagars Te Henui Chapel
My beautiful auntie I will miss you and love you forever and I will miss seeing your post everyday and my last ever photo I had with you was in 2018 just before my trans gender transition I will love you forever
Thinking of you all at this sad time.
We promise to care and love on your beautiful girls Molly & Lola. We can see how incredibly loved they were and we thank you for entrusting us with their care. They are so spoilt with their foster carers and have everything they need and more. Rest assured we will find them the most loving home but only when they are ready, until then they are safe We will light a candle in your honour Xx
There are no perfect words for this kind of goodbye. My sister Jody was a force, bright, stubborn, hilarious, deeply loyal, and unapologetically herself. She lived with a kind of raw honesty that was both fierce and tender, and to be loved by her was to be truly seen. Jody, I miss you every moment. I see you in the smallest things—in music, in baking, in the way the sun hits the water. Your absence is loud, but so is your legacy. You gave so much of yourself to everyone lucky enough to know you. You taught me how to be strong, how to be real, how to love hard. Jody, your absence is felt in every breath, but so is your presence. You gave so much of yourself to this world. I’ll carry your memory always. Rest easy, sis. You were one of a kind.
My beautiful sister, I cannot express my pain in losing you so suddenly. I will always love you and miss you dearly. Look after our little bro. Till we meet again, Jodes. xxx

Funeral service held at Eagars Te Henui Chapel

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