Family and friends have been left devastated by the sudden death of a popular, football-mad teenager who collapsed at work.
Chef Ellis Martin, 19, from Whitstable suffered a brain haemorrhage while working at the Le Petit Poisson in Herne Bay.
The former Whitstable Community College pupil was rushed to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital but never regained consciousness and died the following day.
The tragedy happened last Tuesday leaving his mum Stacey and brothers and sister Alex, 23, Taylor, 22, Conor, 11, Owen, 10 and Madison, 8, distraught and grief-stricken.
They live with single mum Stacey, 42, a carer, in St Francis Close, who said they were all struggling to come to terms with losing him.
“It has devastated us all and can just can’t sleep for thinking about him. I don’t think it has really sunk in with his younger brothers and sisters" - Mum Stacey
She said: “It happened out of the blue and we just couldn’t believe it because he was a fit, health boy who had never had an problems.
Ellis' Mum has issued this message:
To all friends and people who knew my son Ellis Martin his funeral is going to be on the 15th December at the st alphage church at 1:15 then on to millstrood road cemetery at 2:15 the amount of support me and my family have been shown really is amazing at this terrible time for all of us so if you want to say goodbye and pay respects everyone is welcomes soon as I know the details I will pass it on.
Tankerton FC would like to offer deepest condolences to Ellis' family and friends at this sad time. Such a tragedy at losing a well respected, avid footballer from within our the local community.
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