Vanessa Bluebell is seen in a photo posted to a memorial group on Facebook.

A funeral was held Monday at the Yellow Quill First Nation for a 25-year-old woman who died of the H1N1 swine flu.

Vanessa Bluebell lived in Calgary but was originally from Yellow Quill, about 250 kilometres east of Saskatoon.

It is believed she caught the flu while attending a funeral in Saskatoon in June.

Her friend, Stella Peeace, said it didn't take long for the otherwise healthy mother to become very ill.

She said Bluebell had returned to Calgary only a day or so before her husband phoned an ambulance. Peeace spoke with Bluebell's family to ask about her friend's condition.

"He said she's really sick, she can't stomach anything. He had to help her take a shower. That was before she went into the hospital."

Peeace said Bluebell was checked over at hospital and sent home.

Two days later, she started having seizures and was taken to hospital again.

She died days later.

"It's shocking" said Peeace. "The last time I saw her a few days, a week before that, she was healthy. Next time I saw her she was in a coma."

Another friend, Shantal Quewezance, said it was astonishing how quickly Bluebell succumbed.

"I guess that day the husband phoned the ambulance and they took her in and by then she was really sick, she had seizures by then, she hadn't had anything to eat in two days and whether she ever regained consciousness after that I don't know, I don't think so."

Bluebell did not appear to have any underlying medical conditions that would have contributed to her death.

She leaves behind her husband and four children between the ages of one and seven.