Quaker produces CD to raise money for Alzheimer’s Society
CD including music and poetry made to give comfort to carers
A Totnes Friend has produced a CD in memory of his wife’s death to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. Bob Crowley told the Friend that he lost his wife Julie Ann Alexis McCreadie on Valentine’s Day in 2019 after she had suffered with the disease for around seven years. ‘The [CD’s] content is specifically for carers of any person suffering from any illness,’ he said.
On the website for the CD, both called ‘Care, Comfort and Compassion’, Bob Crowley says he hopes ‘it will offer similar comfort to others’. It includes music and poetry that have brought comfort to him in his loss.
Julie Ann Alexis McCreadie had a distinguished career in national journalism and was ‘the first woman to work on the floor of the London Stock Exchange’ according to her husband.
She began showing signs of illness in 2011 when, the website states, ‘unbeknown to her family, she was starting to show the early signs of Alzheimer’s Disease. Husband, Bob, unfamiliar with the disease, failed to recognise the symptoms, something that he now deeply regrets’.
