Tributes have been paid to a former district nurse who would go above and beyond to help the community.

When Glenys Price, 76, died suddenly at her home in Flint on Saturday, dozens of friends, family and community members paid tribute to the kind and generous great-grandmother who had served the community as a nurse and carer for decades.

Born in Treuddyn in 1941, Mrs Price had “her fondest memories” growing up there, where her grandmother lived. She attended Ysgol Croes Atti, before being part of the first set of students to enrol in Ysgol Gwynedd, Flint, in the late ‘40s.

At age 16, Mrs Price turned her compassion and kindness into a lifelong vocation, and began her nurse training at Bootle General in 1958. As soon as her training was finished, Mrs Price became a district nurse in Flint, taking periods off at various times to care for her three children, Mark, Shawn, and Rebecca. The family said she never stopped caring for others, even when she was off work herself. Her daughter remembers Mrs Price going out after-hours, and in her own time, to ensure her elderly patients had everything they needed.

Mrs Price fulfilled a number of nursing and carer roles, including district and community nursing, mental health nursing at the Deva Hospital in Chester, before becoming a carer at many Flintshire residential homes.

Rebecca said: “Mum used to put the elderly patients to bed at night, then go back to make sure they were ok - she wouldn’t get paid for it, but she just cared for everybody.”

She married Ken Price in 1961, and enjoyed almost 60 years of happy marriage at their family home in Flint. She will be greatly missed by her seven grandchildren, and her ten grandchildren.

Shawn Price, her son, said: “She was always proactive, and patient with her embroidery and knitting. But she was impatient when she wanted something doing. She loved a challenge.

“Most of all, she was a confidante, a very good friend, and a lot of people told us after she passed away that she helped them in their darkest hour.

“When she was a warden at Castle Heights, the sheltered housing, she fought very hard over residents to ensure the gates were installed for safety. She actually got told off two weeks after working there - they could hear her raucous laughter outside and they said it was too loud.”

Rebecca said: “You couldn’t go out around Flint with her because everyone knew her and she would stop to talk to everyone.

“She spent so much time arranging days out, trips, and bingo nights for the residents at the care homes. She was the life and soul of the party and one night even had the Flint councillors up dancing.”

The family laughed at many recollections of Mrs’s Price’s strong and entertaining character.

The first was at her habit of moving objects around in the house, and when Mr Price was called to work in the small hours of the morning, he ended up stumbling into all the furniture having forgotten it had been rearranged.

They also recall Mrs Price’s spontaneity as she and her husband were walking around Flint one evening. The pair were house-hunting, and when they came across a “lovely house,” Mrs Price instructed her husband to knock on the door and request a house viewing - which they did, while the then occupier’s wife was fast asleep.

Mrs Price “had a thing for primroses and snowdrops,” and enjoyed trips out in the car with her son Shawn.

The family described Mrs Price as a “strong character with a wicked sense of humour” and “if anyone needed anyone doing, she would do it in a heartbeat.”

Rebecca and Shawn added that their mother’s final months were filled with comfort and support from their father, Ken Price, and Rebecca said: “He was her rock. He has been amazing with her.”

The funeral will be held on Friday, April 6, at St Mary’s Catholic Church in Flint and then on to St Asaph Crematorium. The family has kindly requested no flowers, and donations will go to St Kentigern’s hospice.