The Booth family in Woodstock has made a very generous donation to VON Oxford's Sakura House.
WOODSTOCK - A family from Woodstock is giving back to the VON Oxford Sakura House.
The Booth family provide VON with a gift that will support the capital improvements in the main foyer and vestibule and support highest needs at Sakura House. Catherine Booth and her brother Kevin Booth, in partnership with Catherine’s husband Michael
Kirk and Kevin’s wife Rhona Booth, made this gift to Sakura House in honour of their parents, Walter and Marilyn Booth, who are no longer with us.
The Booth family has always been active in the community and Kevin and Catherine made this donation, in part because they knew that is what their parents would have wanted. Catherine Booth says that giving to Sakura House in particular became important for a very personal reason.
" Our mother, Marilyn, was diagnosed with cancer in 2011, and passed away within six months of her diagnosis. Unfortunately, there were no conversations with her about palliative care options. When, a few years later, we saw what Sakura House offers, we so wished that Marilyn could have spent her final days in its kind of environment - comfortable, caring, respectful, and peaceful. We can't change what she experienced, but hopefully we can make it better for other individuals and families who are facing the same thing. We are encouraged by the fact that Sakura House enjoys enormous support from the community and its importance is recognized. We feel it is so critical to bring palliative care into the light, to talk about it openly, and actively support it.”
The new vestibule is tentatively scheduled for construction in the spring of 2019.
The family’s gift was recognized with the naming of the “Booth Family Atrium” at a special ceremony earlier this month.
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