Liam Payne shows support for his One Direction pal as the latter pays his final respects to his mother in a private funeral service.
- Dec 29, 2016
AceShowbiz - Liam Payne supported his former bandmate Louis Tomlinson during the private funeral service of the latter's mother Johannah Deakin. Family and close friends paid their final respects at Ye Olde Bell Hotel and Restaurant in Nottinghamshire civil parish Barnby Moor.
Jonannah died of leukemia. She is also survived by six other children, Lottie, 18, Felicite, 16, twins Daisy and Phoebe, both 12, and twin brother and sister Ernest and Doris, both aged two. The family held the funeral service on December 21, only three days before Louis' 25th birthday.
"It is with immeasurable sadness that Johannah Deakin's family said goodbye to Johannah in the early hours of Wednesday 7th December 2016," the family said when announcing her passing. "Earlier this year Johannah was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of leukemia that required immediate and continuous treatment. We respectfully request that the family are given time and space to grieve in private."
