Bethany Wooldridge: Heartbreak as wife dies days before Christmas

“Everything she did, she did for everyone else,” Mr Wooldridge said.

“The two jobs she most recently had were helping other people [with the] ambulance and police.

“She would always try to do something for somebody else. She was just selfless.”

Mr Wooldridge had met his wife through friends and the pair had been married for 10 years.

His young family is currently staying with relatives in Dudley as his children “can’t bear to go home”.

The widower spoke of his devastation at his wife’s sudden passing and having to navigate a “new normal”.

He told how he “froze” upon hearing the unexpected news and was later violently sick.

“I lay on my mom’s bathroom floor for about an hour,” he said.