A six-year-old girl has tragically died of cancer after her parents noticed a divergence in her confront while she was saturday down at a family meal.

Acacia Surridge-Hill had a scan which revealed she had a rare brain tumour in September 2020.

Her mum, Carly Surridge, 32, stepdad Ben Hardy, 26, and brother Landon Surridge-Colina, ix, are heartbroken after she died on Sunday, Nov 28.

She was due to be a big sister in but a matter of weeks every bit Carly and Ben are expecting a infant girl in January, reports Stoke-on-TrentLive. It was snowing as the Frozen fan passed away, her mum said, adding they "will always remember of her when it snows".

The family unit outset realised that at that place was something wrong with Acacia when they were eating together.

She was diagnosed with a rare encephalon neoplasm after Carly and Ben noticed one of her eyes was almost closed, and her mouth was slanted on ane side.

Later a trip to her GP, Acacia was diagnosed with Bell'southward Palsy, merely Carly pushed for a scan and doctors found a mass on her brain.

Subsequently more than scans and an performance, Acacia was diagnosed with a diffuse midline glioma H3K27M - an aggressive, incurable cancer - and she underwent gruelling radiotherapy to slow the neoplasm'due south growth.

Carly said: "She was diagnosed in September last twelvemonth and we were told she could take 12 months to alive, merely that it was more likely to be six to nine months.

"In the end, she lived for 15 months from when she was kickoff sick. She was very dauntless, very stiff and very adamant.

"Iii weeks ago they told us she had weeks to live, and so we knew it was coming, but nosotros didn't know when. She stayed at habitation with us and we looked after her. We didn't want to be without family and friends close by.

"She had lost all mobility and was completely paralysed. She had a special support chair called a PPod that was similar her little throne. She saturday in there during the day and slept in our room at night.

"At the finish she was very tranquility and sleepy, which felt very foreign because she was always like a little whirlwind going 100 miles an hour. She wasn't in whatever pain and she just went and then peacefully.

"She was always a star, shining vivid, and she'south still doing that now. She was adorable and so friendly. She was a wonderful girl and I am very, very proud of her. I couldn't exist more than proud."

Carly told how she was a big fan of Frozen and passed abroad with information technology snowing exterior.

She said: "Acacia loved Disney and her favourites were Anna and Elsa from Frozen. On the Sunday when she went information technology was snowy, which was merely perfect. It was meant to exist that way. She was our ice queen and we volition always call back of her when it snows.

"She was looking frontwards to being a big sister. We are having a trivial girl and we really feel she is a gift from Acacia. She will always be looking downwards on her.

"I'k admittedly devastated, but I'm happy that she'south not going through this anymore and that she can be free."

Acacia died at her habitation in Crewe supported by the team from Wirral's Clare House Children's Hospice.

In April more than 80 staff from Acacia and Landon'southward school Wistaston University in Crewe cycled a total of almost one,000 miles on exercise bikes - the distance from Crewe to Disneyland Paris and dorsum - to enhance money to ship Acacia and her family on the trip of a lifetime.

More than than £15,000 was raised on a GoFundMe page, but sadly Acacia was too unwell to travel abroad and the family instead took trips to Blackpool, Wales and to see Disney on Ice to make memories together.

Some of the coin raised is going towards giving Acacia a funeral fit for a Disney princess, and a horse and carriage volition bring her to the service, which takes identify at Crewe Crematorium on Monday, December 13, at 12.15pm.

Mourners are asked to dress colourfully as a commemoration of Acacia's life, and any donations will go to Claire House Children's Hospice in Bebington, the Wirral, whose team supported the family unit to intendance for Acacia at home.

Acacia Surridge-Hill died from a rare cancer

Acacia Surridge-Hill, a huge fan of Frozen, died from a rare cancer

Dominique Griffiths, principal of Wistaston University, paid tribute to the six-year-old's courage and said she would never exist forgotten.

She said: "Since her diagnosis in September 2020, Acacia has shown nothing but courage, incredible bravery and a zest for life, even during the toughest of times. Her infectious grin and laugh never failed to lite up the room.

"From her very kickoff day in school, Acacia'due south passion for learning shone and even in her final months, her beloved of colouring and stories never wavered. We will remember her for her creativity, vibrant personality and all things Disney; she will exist e'er be our very own princess.

"Our thoughts are with her family, who have get incredibly close to the school community during this last year. Their strength, positivity and resilience can just be described as inspirational. Acacia, Landon and her family will always hold a special identify inside our hearts and our school family.

"In due grade, in that location will be a celebration of Acacia'due south life and a permanent identify of reflection for all those that knew her. Acacia, y'all will never be forgotten."