Lauren Allyson Tye lost her fight against metastatic breast cancer on April 21, 2024, she was 40 years old. Lauren was a beloved Wife, Mother, Daughter, Auntie and friend. She is survived by her husband Trevor, Son Own, Daughter Alyssa, Sister Erin, Mother Carol and a number of loving family members.
Lauren’s journey started on June 3rd, 1983 born to Carol Adams and George Maxwell in Calgary. After a few short years Carol moved to Nova Scotia with Lauren and her sister Erin. There she met several really good friends especially Sarah who was like a sister to her.
At the age of 12 Carol moved the family back to Calgary where Lauren met Alice and several more friends where they quickly bonded over their love of the backstreet boys and getting into mischief as teenage girls do.
Carol then moved the family to St. Albert. Lauren attended Paul Kane High School and got a job at the movie theatre in St. Albert where she met Aly and they became fast friends. While Lauren was at Grant Macewan she was getting tutoring on statistics; and met Trevor at a bus stop, and after a few phone calls they had their first date in November going to Boston Pizza, stopping for coffee/hot chocolate and watching a movie.
Shortly after a year they moved in together into their first apartment in downtown Edmonton with her close friend Alice from Calgary. They then moved to North east Edmonton, where they got engaged, married and eventually bought a townhouse in Grandin. Lauren, the ever adventurer, planned a trip to Hawaii; which was one of our most cherished and memorable trips. After four short years Owen our first was born in 2012 and Alyssa then in 2014.
Lauren’s dad and step-dad were diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017 and died in 2018. In 2017 Lauren was diagnosed with breast cancer and fought with it for 7 long years while being the best mother she could be to Owen and Alyssa. In 2019 Trevor and Lauren bought their home on Lambert Cres and Lauren wanted to make memories and give the kids the best childhood she could. She was always planning trips to the mountains, little vacations, as much as she could pack into the year as she could.
At the end of September 2023 Lauren started feeling more ill, was sleeping more and more and eating less. It was difficult for her to do many of the things she enjoyed like outings, visits from her family, friends and events like family dinners for birthdays and holidays. After Easter in 2024, Lauren took a turn for the worse, we both could tell the Chemo was not working at all. At her last appointment at the cross on April 16 the doctors told Lauren and Trevor that she had very little time left, that it would be a matter of weeks. Those weeks turned to days, days turned to hours, hours turned to minutes, minutes became precious few seconds.
On Saturday April 20, 2024 in the afternoon Lauren became unresponsive.
The EMS were dispatched to their house, they did what they could for her, but she was unresponsive. They told Trevor and his sisters, Jaylene and Heather, that she would likely be gone in the next 24 hours. About 30 minutes after the EMS left Lauren came back for a short time. She told her children she loved them, they had yorkshire pudding and ice cream for dinner then the kids and the dog left for their grandparents, Carol and Tyler’s place. Trevor stayed with her till the end playing and singing songs and being at her side holding her hand and talking to her. She died fighting for every second, eventually passing early Sunday morning.
Lauren was a wife, daughter, auntie, sister and mother. She had a smile that could light up a room, and pretty much anyone would just talk to her and tell her their whole life story. She had a calming energy to her, a bit of a silly streak (ok a lot of a silly streak) and a lot of passion for life. Lauren loved all her family and friends very much and she was very loved in return; She was taken much too soon, and she did not want to go. She is resting peacefully now, and so long as we remember her, she will always be loved, and she will always love us in return.
