A MOTHER who could be like the "sunshine" despite her turbulent life has been laid to rest -- four weeks after she was the victim of a street attack.

Christine Moore's body was found at her home in Emma Street, Accrington, by a neighbour looking through a back window of her house the day after she had been involved in a violent row.

Yesterday around 50 relatives and friends were able to pay their last respects to the 51-year-old.

As her coffin was carried into the chapel at Accrington Crematorium, Whalley Road, by six relatives to the strains of Elvis Presley's Always on my Mind, Christine's distraught mother Edith Daly was escorted in a wheelchair.

The 80-year-old has been in the Accrington Victoria Hospital being treated for nerves since her daughter's body was found with a head injury.

Leading the service, Father Jim McCartney, who had known Christine for nine years, said she was a "remarkable person."

"Christine could be compared to the weather," he said.

"There were times when she could be like a storm and there times when she could be like the sunshine.

"She carried a cross but she also carried the knowledge that she was loved by God, that she was precious to Him, and in her own way she was happy.

"I'm sure now up there in Heaven she's moving things around. They will know she's there.

"I had great affection for her, I admired her and I will miss her."

Among the floral tributes were two huge arrangements of the words 'sister' and 'mum.'

The service ended with one of Christine's favourite songs, Simply the Best by Tina Turner, before interment next to her father in the grounds of the crematorium.

After the funeral her step-brother Michael Daly said: "It was nice to see all her friends turning up; we appreciate that.

"We all have a duty of care to make sure whoever is responsible for her death is brought to justice.

"She was a fantastic person. She was a laugh a minute, a star."

Her sister Eileen Hornby said: "It's been a nightmare waiting to bury her but we have been kept busy."

Her 22-year-old son Jimmy, one of the pall bearers, said: "I didn't expect to be carrying the coffin. It was a nice service.

"My mum would have liked it and would have been happy to have her family carrying her coffin."

Christine was a regular visitor to the Thomas organisation -- which stands for Those on the Margins of Society -- which is run by Father McCartney, of St Anne's Church, Blackburn. Fthr McCartney who conducted her funeral service.

She also had family connections in the town -- her sister Eileen lives in Shadsworth Road, Blackburn.

David Osbaldeston, 29, of Prospect Street, Great Harwood, was charged with her murder earlier this month and will appear before Preston Crown Court in August.