It is with great sorrow that I am forwarding this message. I met Moira
and Peter and the one and only national confernce I attended and was very
impressed with both of them. Moira will be missed. Barb
===========================================================================
Barbara Patterson [log in to unmask]
HSC 2J22 905-525-9140, ext. 22403
School of Nursing
===========================================================================
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 14:59:44 -0230 (NDT)
From: Anne Rutherford <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Moira MacPherson
To Barbara
I am sending this message to you first. Could you forward it to the
list for m e please as I am going on holiday and off list 2 wks
thanks Anne
To the List-
I have been asked by Moira MacPherson's husband, Peter Kidd to inform
PARKINSN Listmembers that Moira died on April 17, 1997 of cancer. Moira
and Peter were among the first to join the list but in the past year
Moira's failing health made it impossible to keep up with the mail.
Longtime members will remember Peter's contributions to the list
I first met Moira when the the Parkinson Foundation of Canada began to
hold national meetings. There are some who face Parkinsons with courage,
with inner strength, and with grace. That was Moira's way. Her
reputation was formidable but she was kindness itself.
Moira grew up in Scotland where she attended art college. Later she lived
in Jamaica for a number of years, and when Parkinsons was diagnosed, Moira
was living in Vancouver, Canada. Just turned 40 she was making a
significant contribution to art and theatre.
In 1984 Moira moved to Nova Scotia with her two young sons, Kelvin and
Cameron. Her first contact with a Parkinson support group was at an
information display at a shopping mall. She became a volunteer for
Parkinsons, contributing new ideas and plain hard work. The list of
projects she was involved with is long, conferences, exercise groups,
fundraising for research and local needs, editing a newsletter..........
Art was always a part of he life. The Foundation's Christmas card is based
on one of Moira's designs and I remember a series of sketches illustrating
" A Mother with Parkinsons".
By 1995 her Parkinsons had become such a problem that she and Peter
travelled to Dr Robert Iacono's clinic at Loma Linda, California to have
a bi-lateral Pallidotomy. For a time she was very much improved but
cancer was diagnosed in September !996.
Moira leaves her two sons, Kelvin and Cameron, her husband Peter Kidd,
her family in Scotland and Canada and her many friends and fellow workers
in the Parkinson community. We will miss her.
Anne Rutherford
<[log in to unmask]>
