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Article: Marie Curie gave me the strength to let mum die with dignity; RECORD WOMAN: Designer Betty Davies' debt to the cancer nurses.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- November 10, 1997
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Betty Davies looked on in dismay as her father died of cancer in hospital on a public ward.
The theme music from Coronation Street could be heard blaring from a TV set at one end of the ward.
And, for Betty, the memory of his death left a permanent scar.
When - in 1990 - Betty's mother, Alice, was diagnosed as having cancer too, Betty vowed the same thing would not happen again.
She decided to look after her mother at home.
"I was blessed with great vitality," Betty said, "and I didn't have children."
By day, she worked ...