A BARKERS Creek mother is pleading for the return of a memory card which holds the final photographs of her daughter.

Cathy Thompson's daughter Hannah passed away in January 2012 from cystic fibrosis.

The 14-year-old's final few months of life were chronicled in images taken on a mobile phone.

Mrs Thompson gave the memory card holding the images to a friend to download to a computer.

The memory card was left in a money bag in the console of a Mitsubishi Lancer which was stolen from Big Hill earlier this year. 

The car was later recovered at a house in Raywood but the console had been replaced and the precious memory card was gone.

Two men have been charged with the theft of the Lancer but no trace of the images has been found.

Mrs Thompson, who was only told of the memory card's disappearance on Good Friday, said she was "shattered beyond belief" by the loss.

"I'm heartbroken," she said.

"It was like losing Hannah all over again."

She said the card held 143 images of Hannah with her family, including photos of Hannah with her baby sister Abby who was only seven months old at the time of Hannah's death. 

Photos of Hannah's final Christmas with her family and private images of Hannah following a double lung transplant shortly before she passed away were lost.

The card also contained photographs of Abby's infancy and Hannah's brother Alex meeting soccer star Harry Kewell as well as Good Charlotte rockers Joel and Benji Madden.

Mrs Thompson said she and her husband Mark were hopeful of a miracle.

"I know it's probably a long shot," she said.

"I just hope someone - one of [the thieves'] parents or friends - knows where it is or looks for it and can find it in their heart to return it to us."

Mrs Thompson said the theft of the card had reopened emotional scars left by Hannah's death.

"We thought at least we will always have our memories of Hannah but now they've been taken from us too," she said.

"How much bad luck can one family have? It's a horrible, horrible thing to happen."

Hannah was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, which is a genetic condition affecting the respiratory system, when she was just three weeks old. 

An annual Castlemaine fun run, Run for Hannah, raises money in Hannah's name for research into cystic fibrosis. 

Anyone who may have the card can drop it in to the Bendigo Advertiser offices on Queen Street anonymously for it to be returned to the Thompson family.