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In the garden of the Borneo Company House, Chiang Mai, Thailand, in
mid 1965 when she was a few months old. Ana was born in Suandok
Hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on 20 March 1965. Muriel and I had
been appointed among the very first lecturers at the newly-opened
Chiang Mai University. At that time there were only a dozen
"farang" (European) families in the city and Ana was the
first European baby born in that hospital.
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With mother and little sister, going to school in Cambridge, 1974. We
lived in Cambridge for the academic year 1974/5, in between postings
to Turkey and Thailand, and Ana and Imogen went to the Milton Road
Primary School.
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Ana as a glamorous teenager in Egypt, 1979. |
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Graduation day, Stirling 1987, with her friend Marc Twynholm. Ana's
degree was in management science, and it led to an immediate post with
Gallaher's.
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Bridesmaid at her sister's wedding, July 1992. |
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Water and travel were two recurrent themes for Ana. She loved all
forms of watersports and went all over the world to pursue them and
make friends. Here she is in Turkey in June 1993.
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Rowing with the Thames Traders rowing club |
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But there were just a few things that she didn't do well, though that
didn't stop her having a go.
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At Mar Lodge, Christmas 1993. By now Ana had been working for Gallaher
for six years. She brought a party of friends to our house in Stirling
to help us celebrate our first Christmas there.
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Autumn 1996, with her grandmother Gladys Fairbairn, mother Muriel
Higgins, sister Imogen Makower and niece Clementine Makower in Jersey.
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Sketching in the West Indies, 1996. This was a hobby she took up in
her last three years.
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On a visit to Glasgow, soon after her cancer was diagnosed and her
first operation. Ana once said that she wanted to be the most positive
cancer patient ever, and we were told that she had become a legend
around Charing Cross Hospital because of the way she came through
treatments and bounced back to health against all predictions.
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| In Stirling again, 1996 |
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Six months before she died Ana moved into a small newly-built house
with garden in Kingston-on-Thames. She had great pleasure in designing
and planting the garden.
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The water theme was fulfilled with a fountain and a mosaic fish which
she made herself.
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Since Ana was a Stirling graduate, we arranged for a new bench with a
memorial plaque to be set up overlooking the loch on campus and close
to the residences, and invited sixty of our friends and relations,
Ana's friends from her undergraduate days, and my current colleagues
to help us unveil the bench. The climax was meant to be the removal of
the cloth by young Clementine, but as the moment approached it was
obvious she was far more interested in another little girl's tricycle
than in doing what we wanted so, with the help of Johnny Fry, we tied
the end of the cloth to the tricycle. As we did so a solitary goose
flew low overhead and honked. Just a coincidence, of course, ...
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