Thank you for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page in memory of my sister Sally...

Sally died from Covid-19 in the John Radcliffe Hospital on April 18th, six days after being diagnosed, she was just 63.

Sally belonged in Oxford. She attended the Dragon School and Wychwood School.  Sally was a great hockey player, and her ambition lay in PE but a sports injury cut short that dream so she went into Orthopaedic Nursing, which she found rather too challenging.  She attended a Cookery course in London and a Horticultural course in Pershore but a serious mental breakdown in 1976 at the age of 19 put increasing demands on her and a good deal of her life was spent in and out of hospital.

Oxford supported Sally for most of her life, not least of all at its tragic end.  For a while she lived on a houseboat; she had a keen interest in photography and gardening which no doubt attracted her to the Restore Project.  She always spoke fondly of her involvement with the Elder Stubbs Recovery Group site, near to her home, and it is appropriate that we should support this in her memory.

Her mental health issues provided major challenges and she did her best to face these and to find solutions that were within her capabilities.  She had many friends and her generosity towards others less fortunate was well known. She greatly enjoyed her two nephews who gave her a renewed feeling of re-connection to family, something that that she tragically lost with the all too early death of her parents.

In recent months, the onset of Parkinson's Disease was compromising her mobility and a series of falls saw her repeatedly in the John Radcliffe Hospital. Tragically, at some point, she contracted Covid-19 and despite her determination to fight this off, lost her life to it.

Sally Pearce 10th March 1957 - 18th April 2020