Anita Clayton fund launched

Press, 7 March 1984, Page 3

Anita Clayton fund launched

The Anita Clayton fundraising body was launched in an effort to reunite an Ashburton woman; Mrs Mere Clayton, with her daughter, Anita, who is recovering in a London hospital after surgery for cancer.

Anita Clayton, aged 15, was on holiday with an elder sister when she became ill about 10 weeks; ago, said Mrs Maree Singh, another sister yesterday. Mrs Singh, of Belfast, said the tests showed Anita was suffering the recurrence of a malignant ovarian tumour which was operated on five years ago. It had spread again and the decision to operate was taken last week. Since then the family has been worrying how they could get Anita’s mother to her bedside to help the recovery. “It is really Asperate; she is seriously it is

just so important that mother gets there,” Mrs Singh said. Wishing to save her mother from any further ordeal of being interviewed, Mrs Singh said she was speaking to the news media because her mother had become distraught when she had spoken to her earlier yesterday. “I am younger and stronger. It was quite an ordeal for her,” Mrs Singh said of the decision to seek funds from the 1 public, but her mother had realised it was the only way she would be able to get to London.

Her mother was a single parent and did not own property, that she could sell. All she had to sell was personal possessions and a vehicle which was being paid off. If she sold everything, she would not have a home to bring Anita back to, said Mrs Singh.