McKEE, Ann Jeanette
Born June 3, 1952 in Lismore
Died July 19, 2020 in Hobart
Those of us fortunate enough to have know Ann, cherished her as a remarkable human being: someone with a wide ranging intellectual curiosity, lucid and articulate, having a fascination with the oddities of human and political behaviour, which she often expressed in a tinder-dry wit.
She spent her career in Public Health as a Psychiatric Nurse of immense compassion, wide ranging knowledge and great depth of skill; she also lectured in Public Health at the University of Newcastle, and prior to that at Sturt College in South Australia.
An accomplished classical pianist, she often bemoaned her own woeful lack of practice.
Above all however, Ann had the capacity for true Friendship: she understood that Friendship was more about giving than getting, and for those of us lucky enough to be thus counted, we knew that there was nothing that she would fail to do, to listen, comfort and share.
The calm courage and stoicsim with which she faced the pain and disability of her final, fatal, Lupus condition would have shamed a Spartan.
Her fervent belief in the need for and value of a robust Public Health System was given fine example in the exceptional care and endless kindness given her, and her Partner, James, by the outstanding Staff at ICU, Royal Hobart Hospital in the last days of her life.
The chasm of sadness her death leaves among her Friends will not easily be filled.
As was her expressed wish she will have a Private Cremation.
Farewell to a dear Friend and Comrade.
Location: Hobart
McKEE, Ann Jeanette
Born June 3, 1952 in Lismore
Died July 19, 2020 in Hobart
Those of us fortunate enough to have know Ann, cherished her as a remarkable human being: someone with a wide ranging intellectual curiosity, lucid and articulate, having a fascination with the oddities of human and political behaviour, which she often expressed in a tinder-dry wit.
She spent her career in Public Health as a Psychiatric Nurse of immense compassion, wide ranging knowledge and great depth of skill; she also lectured in Public Health at the University of Newcastle, and prior to that at Sturt College in South Australia.
An accomplished classical pianist, she often bemoaned her own woeful lack of practice.
Above all however, Ann had the capacity for true Friendship: she understood that Friendship was more about giving than getting, and for those of us lucky enough to be thus counted, we knew that there was nothing that she would fail to do, to listen, comfort and share.
The calm courage and stoicsim with which she faced the pain and disability of her final, fatal, Lupus condition would have shamed a Spartan.
Her fervent belief in the need for and value of a robust Public Health System was given fine example in the exceptional care and endless kindness given her, and her Partner, James, by the outstanding Staff at ICU, Royal Hobart Hospital in the last days of her life.
The chasm of sadness her death leaves among her Friends will not easily be filled.
As was her expressed wish she will have a Private Cremation.
Farewell to a dear Friend and Comrade.
