TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular great-grandmother who helped set-up an award-winning ice-cream business and died last week, just six months after her husband.

Brenda Moore started Brymor Ice Cream , with her husband Brian, in the Eighties.

She passed away last Tuesday, aged 74. Mr Moore died in April, at the age of 76.

The couple’s son, Robert, who runs the ice-cream parlour, at High Jervaulx Farm, near Masham, North Yorkshire, with his wife, Diane, paid tribute to his parents’ passion for their business.

He said: “They lived and worked together for 50 years and they did everything together, from going to see customers, to working on new flavours to actually making the ice-cream.

“They were both very passionate about what they did, they went to Italy and the US looking for new flavours of ice-cream.”

Mr and Mrs Moore started their business in the village of Weeton, near Wetherby, and it quickly outgrew that location.

Following a two-year search, the couple moved their family and cows to the picturesque Yorkshire Dales, where the business has flourished ever since.

It now attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.

The couple are survived by Robert, their other two children, Julie and Peter, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

:: A private family funeral service for Mrs Moore will be held shortly.