Deborah Louise Bone (10 January 1963 – 30 December 2014) was a British

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nurse who created the Brainbox, co-created Step2 and who became the subject of the

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song " Disco 2000", written by her close friend

Jarvis Cocker Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician and radio presenter. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Following ...

Early years

Bone was born in

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, England, later moved to

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where her mother was friends with the mother of

, later a founder member of Pulp. When Bone was 10, her family moved to

Letchworth Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is noted for being the first garden city. The population at the time of the 2011 census was 33,249. Letchwort ...

, but she and Cocker remained friends. At the age of 16, she began volunteering at Fairfield Hospital in

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. She was the subject of Cocker's song "Disco 2000", released in 1995, in which he sang: Cocker performed the song at her 50th birthday party.

Career

Bone qualified as a mental health nurse, eventually working for

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, commonly referred to as HCT, is an NHS organisation providing adult and children's community health services, such as district nursing and health visiting, across Hertfordshire. It also provides some services ...

as a service manager for early intervention and adolescent mental health service. While there, she set up their 'Step2 health' service as well as the Brainbox, which was created as a way to assist young people dealing with stress. It was announced in the 2015 New Year's honours list that she had been made a

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(MBE) for "her services to children’s mental health".

Death

Bone was affected by the bone marrow cancer

multiple myeloma Multiple myeloma (MM), also known as plasma cell myeloma and simply myeloma, is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that normally produces antibodies. Often, no symptoms are noticed initially. As it progresses, bone pain, ane ...

. She died at home on 30 December 2014, 11 days before her 52nd birthday and the day her MBE was announced, and was survived by her husband Colin and two daughters.

References

External links

Bone's blog
1963 births 2014 deaths Members of the Order of the British Empire People from Sheffield Mental health in England English nurses People from Letchworth Deaths from multiple myeloma Deaths from cancer in England {{England-med-bio-stub