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Distinguished member
- Joined
- May 15, 2010
- Messages
- 300
- Reason
- Loved one DX
- Diagnosis
- 09/2009
- Country
- US
- State
- VA
- City
- Henrico
Another angel has found her way home. Please see below written by her daughter. This was emailed to me on Facebook.
Selena "Jane" Lees Jones (Verral) was born October 30,1940 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Died June 3, 2010 in Rio Vista, California.
She worked all her life taking care of people first in Toronto at Sunnybrook Hospital then after raising 4 children for Kaiser Hospital in Walnut Creek California as a Hospice Volunteer for AIDS patients, DVAC (Diablo Valley Aids Center) packing up and delivering food and befriending those who society would so quickly push aside.
She was diagnosed first with Fahr's Syndrome (in the ALS family of diseases) in 2008 and then with ALS (formally) in 2010. She loved to travel, read (The Dalai Lama being one of her favourites) and learn as many things as she could. Most of all her grandchildren were her passion, Nana's Treasure's she called them. She left this world on her terms via her advanced directives. She reached out to as many with ALS as she could and inspires many with strength and courage including her family. She was rarely with out a smile and gleam in her eye. One of the things she put out on her computer in the weeks before she died, is how she was so sad that she won't be able to be a part of the grandchildren growing up to see them become the wonderful children she knows they will be and to make sure that they know how important a life of service is.
Oh, the pt's in Sunnybrook were the Inuit TB patients , she was also a 3rd generation member of the red cross both of those in Toronto...
Adrienne, the world will miss your mom.
Selena "Jane" Lees Jones (Verral) was born October 30,1940 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Died June 3, 2010 in Rio Vista, California.
She worked all her life taking care of people first in Toronto at Sunnybrook Hospital then after raising 4 children for Kaiser Hospital in Walnut Creek California as a Hospice Volunteer for AIDS patients, DVAC (Diablo Valley Aids Center) packing up and delivering food and befriending those who society would so quickly push aside.
She was diagnosed first with Fahr's Syndrome (in the ALS family of diseases) in 2008 and then with ALS (formally) in 2010. She loved to travel, read (The Dalai Lama being one of her favourites) and learn as many things as she could. Most of all her grandchildren were her passion, Nana's Treasure's she called them. She left this world on her terms via her advanced directives. She reached out to as many with ALS as she could and inspires many with strength and courage including her family. She was rarely with out a smile and gleam in her eye. One of the things she put out on her computer in the weeks before she died, is how she was so sad that she won't be able to be a part of the grandchildren growing up to see them become the wonderful children she knows they will be and to make sure that they know how important a life of service is.
Oh, the pt's in Sunnybrook were the Inuit TB patients , she was also a 3rd generation member of the red cross both of those in Toronto...
Adrienne, the world will miss your mom.