In fairy wings and a polka-dot skirt, Kerri-Anne Trainor took part in Relay for Life with her three sisters and several of her mother’s former workmates.
"She was meant to do it this year, but didn’t make it," Ms Trainor (28) said.
Heather Trainor, of Dunedin, died in September, aged 59. She had soft tissue sarcoma.
The Priceless Princesses team was one of 71 teams and more than 1000 participants in the 24-hour fundraising event held at Forsyth Barr Stadium. It finished at noon yesterday.
Ms Trainor and her sisters, Toni Cadogan, Deanna Tielkes and Natasha Trainor, and their four children, joined their mother’s former workmates in the relay. The event was Ms Trainor’s first relay. Her mother had taken part in recent years.
Cancer Society chief executive Rachael Hart, who took over the role in September, said the provisional tally stood at $105,000, and some proceeds were still to be added.
Proceeds would be down on previous years because the event’s timing had changed, she said.
Usually held in February or March every two years, the relay was brought forward because of the new University of Otago Relay for Life.
When the event was last held, in March 2015, its provisional fundraising total was $215,000 from 150 teams. Dr Hart said some teams did not take part because they entered the new university event, and some were probably not ready for the new date.
She said November was a good month for the relay, and she believed team numbers would increase at the next relay in two years’ time.
