( CNN ) -- A British woman beheaded in an apparently random supermarket attack in Spain 's Canary Islands has been identified as grandmother Jennifer Mills-Westley . She was retired and living between Tenerife in the Canary Islands and France , where a daughter and grandchildren live , her family said in a statement Saturday . `` She was full of life , generous of heart , would do anything for anyone , '' said her daughter , who was only identified as Sarah . The family is `` devastated by the news of her death , '' her daughter said . `` We now have to find a way of living without her love and light , '' she added . Mills-Westley was a retired county council worker in Norfolk , eastern England , council leader Derrick Murphy told CNN . Murphy said he did not know her personally , having joined the council after she retired , but that he planned to have current and former council employees put together a tribute to her . A knife-wielding man attacked a Mills-Westley in a supermarket , eventually cutting off her head and running away with it , government officials in Tenerife said Friday . The man entered a shopping center in the town of Arona , in the Cristianos area of Tenerife , and stole a knife from the supermarket before attacking the apparent stranger , a central government spokeswoman said . Shopping center security guards were alerted and chased the man , subduing him until police arrived . The man , whom national police in Tenerife identified as a Bulgarian , was apparently known in the shopping area , the government spokeswoman said . The British Foreign Office confirmed Friday that a British national had died in Tenerife . British officials there are in contact with Spanish authorities about the incident , the Foreign Office said . CNN 's Al Goodman , Per Nyberg and Bharati Naik contributed to this report .
Jennifer Mills-Westley was `` generous of heart , '' her daughter says . The family is asking for privacy at this time and ask that donations be made to the American Cancer Society or other organizations working in their community. A man stole a knife , then cut off her head with it .