Are, Mr McGill, and performing a Victoria Wood scripted monologue in 1982's Wood and Walters, as well as appearing in Wood's TV play Nearly A Happy Ending. Personal life and death Aged 17, Summers married her first husband, John Arthur Hunt, who was 20 years her senior, in Bucklow, Cheshire, in 1928. They ran a combined hairdressers and newsagents in Sale, Cheshire. Hunt died aged 57 in November 1948, leaving Summers widowed at the age of 37. The following year, Summers met surgeon Clifford Simpson Smith, who was in a theatre box in a Black Country venue, where she told a joke about seeing many a rotten egg in a box. They met after the show, and were married shortly afterwards in Stourbridge, Worcestershire. The couple remained wed until Smith's death in June 1984. They had no children, but Summers was stepmother to Smith's son, Stuart Turner. She lived in Ossett, West Yorkshire. In January 1997, Summers died in her sleep at Oaklands Hospital, Manchester, of kidney failure. Summer's last words in hospital raised a smile. A nurse offered her a drink: "A cup of tea, milk or a glass of water...?" Very dryly, she replied: "It gets better all the time." Summers passed away seconds later. In their autobiographies, released in different years, former Coronation Street stars Jean Alexander, Bill Waddington, Lynne Perrie, Julie Goodyear and Amanda Barrie described Summers as a true professional actress who was witty, hilarious and outspokenly funny. Summers was a member of The Grand Order of Lady Ratlings, a charitable organisation for women in show business. Filmography References External links Jill Summers at corrie.net Short biography of Jill Summers 1910 births 1997 deaths People from Eccles, Greater Manchester Actresses from Salford Actors from Wakefield English television actresses Deaths from kidney failure 20th-century British actresses 20th-century British comedians 20th-century English women 20th-century English people