Elsie Tanner leave Weatherfield. Her final appearance was screened at the beginning of 1984. Pat Phoenix died of lung cancer in September 1986 at the age of 62. Elsie, her character, died in a car crash, at the age of 81 in 2004 after leaving Weatherfield 20 years earlier, although it was not mentioned in the show until 2011. Elsie Tanner Elsie Tanner (also Grimshaw, Howard and Gregory) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, "Coronation Street", played by Pat Phoenix from the series inception in 1960 to 1973 and from 1976 until 1984. Elsie Tanner was one of
Jennifer Moss (actress) Jennifer Moss (actress) Jennifer Victoria Moss (10 January 1945 – 5 October 2006) was an English actress and singer born in Wigan, Lancashire. She was best known for her role as Lucille Hewitt on the long-running soap opera, "Coronation Street", which she played from 1960–74. Moss first achieved fame as a twelve-year-old as one of the child actors on the BBC's light entertainment programme "Children's Hour". It was there that she first came to the attention of actor Tony Warren, who would later become the originator of "Coronation Street". Moss moved into television in the early 1960s, and appeared in