An Angus community has been shocked by the sudden death of a popular nurse and mother of two.
Susan McAuley from Letham took ill on Saturday morning and, despite attempts to revive her, she passed away at the family home in the village she shared with her husband Peter, 50, and sons Matthew, 22, and 20-year old David.
Keep-fit enthusiast Mrs McAuley, 48, had been in good health and her tragic death has left family and friends stunned.
Her husband, a team manager with Angus Council, said: “Susan was a deeply committed nurse and was devoted to her family.
“She lived for her two boys and was so proud of them. We are all completely devastated at her sudden death and find it difficult to comprehend.”
Mrs McAuley was a charge nurse on the Rowan Ward at the Susan Carnegie Unit in Stracathro Hospital.
She began her 30-year career as a nurse in Tayside at the former Sunnyside Hospital outside Montrose.
Brought up in the Douglas area of Dundee, she attended St Saviour’s RC High School.
Her enthusiasm for keep-fit saw her regularly attend the leisure centre in Forfar and she was well known in Letham, where she had lived for 17 years.
Susan is also survived by her mother Tilda, brother Gerard and sister Doreen.
Arrangements for her funeral are yet to be finalised.