Real Life Don't miss out on the headlines from Real Life. Followed categories will be added to My News. The two girls who were orphaned after losing their mum and dad to cancer in the same week are doing “amazingly well” after being taken in by relatives.
Christchurch couple Nigel and Marjan Joyce died from brain and breast cancer respectively in June , leaving behind their two young girls, Oriana, 8, and Emily, 4. Nigel had been battling a glioblastoma brain tumour when he passed away on May 31. His wife Marjan died of breast cancer on June 6.
Tragically Marjan had finished radiation therapy and had been given the all clear but after suffering seizures three weeks before her death, medics discovered the disease had spread to her brain. Five months on and the girls are now living in Auckland with Nigel’s brother John and his wife Nikki. Two girls who orphaned after losing their mum and dad to cancer in the same week are doing ‘amazingly well’ after being taken in by relatives.
Picture: Supplied “We just never in a million years thought this would happen,” John told the New Zealand Herald . “They did everything for their girls, they were the parents that just did it all, the girls were their life. But he said the decision to care for his brother’s two girls after his own two boys had grown up and left the nest was a “no brainer”.
Nikki said that despite the fact the family were still grieving and settling into their “new normal”, the Oriana and Emily .
