'Beloved gran’ dies after choking on trip to Spain

“BELOVED mother and grandmother” has died after choking on a piece of steak while on holiday in Spain with her husband.

- HOLLY MORGAN

Sisters Helen and Lisa Lisseman with their mother Ceri Ball (right)

Ceri Ball, 74, from Newport, died last Friday, October 17. She and her husband, Glyn, 77, were visiting Peniscola, a Spanish coastal town where they have a holiday home, when she choked to death at a restaurant.

Ceri was treated by paramedics at the scene after waiters and waitresses performed the Heimlich manoeuvre. After around 20 minutes they got the food out of Ceri’s throat and then transferred her to the Comarcal de Vinaros Hospital, where she was put on life-support.

As Ceri’s two daughters were on the plane heading to be with her their mother’s heart gave out and she was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Doctors and nurses worked tirelessly to try to save her but the damage to her body was “too severe,” said daughter Lisa Lisseman.