Hi everyone
It is with a sad heart that I inform you of the passing of Dr Moire Wadleigh, professor and isotope scientist at Memorial University, St-Johns, Newfoundland, Canada. You will find below the obituary from the Ottawa Citizen newspaper dated November 11th, 2004 as well as additional information from the weblinks
A memorial service will take place in Ottawa at the:
Parkwood Presbyterian Church
10 Chesterton Drive, Ottawa (Nepean sector)
November the 23rd at 3 pm
Tel: 613 225-6648
If you wish to contribute something please fell free to do so directly or through myself. I will pass on any notes, letters, e-mails (I will print them) and/or donations (to the Canadian Cancer Society) in her name. Please no web cards. All will be passed along to her husband Dr Gary Quinlan, also of Memorial U, Earth Sciences, at the memorial service for Moire on Nov 23rd. Please pass on this info to anyone that you feel may not have received this news. In our line of work friends and colleague are often moving and far apart.
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Memorial University, Departmental news announcement:
http://sparky2.esd.mun.ca/news/news_index.html <http://sparky2.esd.mun.ca/news/news_index.html> .
Dr Wadleigh was well known for her specialty in sulphur isotope research but was also a marine carbonate specialist as well having worked with Dr Jan Veizer on her M.Sc. at Ottawa U.
Personal web, research interests:
http://sparky2.esd.mun.ca/faculty/members/wadleigh_m.html <http://sparky2.esd.mun.ca/faculty/members/wadleigh_m.html> .
9th Canadian CF-IRMS Workshop /2002
Dr Wadleigh, along with her friend and technician Alison Pye, put on a great program for us in 2002 for the continuous flow workshop. You will find Dr Wadleigh signing the certificates making participants who “kissed the cod” and “glugged the screech” official Newfoundlanders (before last photo at the end). If you can’t see the miniature photo, simply click on the frame to see the full size photos of the festivities.
http://www.cf-irms.uottawa.ca/Workshop-2002/default.htm <http://www.cf-irms.uottawa.ca/Workshop-2002/default.htm> .
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The Ottawa Citizen obituaries page, November 11th, 2004
WADLEIGH, Moire Anne
Moire Wadleigh passed away peacefully in St. John's, Newfoundland on November 3, 2004, after a lengthy illness. She leaves behind her husband Garry Quinlan of Flatrock, Nfld.; her parents Jon and Mary Wadleigh of Nepean; her brother Ian Wadleigh and his wife Lisa of Edmonton. Also survived by aunts and uncles, John and Flora Livingstone, Ancaster, Ont., Ted and Jean Wadleigh, Stanstead, Quebec and special cousins Peter and Bonnie Livingstone, North Gower. She will be missed by many good friends around the world, particularly Tara, Robbie, Margaret and Helen. Moire was a professor in the Earth Sciences Department at Memorial University where she could live her life-long dream of pursuing knowledge. Moire was a graduate of Sir Robert Borden High School; she received her B.Sc. (Hons.) at Carleton University her Masters at the University of Ottawa and her Ph.D. at McMaster University, Hamilton. Thank you to all the people who made her life a joy and her passing easier. Particular thanks to the medical staff at the Health Sciences Centre who helped Moire through her last days and helped Garry deal with his loss. Thanks also to her minister whose spiritual guidance provided emotional comfort in a difficult time and to the many friends who gave emotional support and practical help. A memorial service will be held at Parkwood Presbyterian Church, 10 Chesterton Drive, Nepean, at 3 p.m. Tuesday, November 23. In lieu of flowers, donations in support of cancer research would be appreciated.
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Thank you for your time
Gilles
Gilles St-Jean
Chercheur / Research Scientist
Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Sciences de la Terre / Earth Sciences
140 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5
Tel: 01-613-562-5800 xt 6830 (Bureau / Office)
xt 6836 (Labo.)
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