TerryGoodwin

1955 - September 30, 2005

Terry died after a valiant battle with brain cancer in Fishermen's Memorial Hospital, Lunenburg. Terry was the much beloved son of Walter and Truleen Goodwin, Amherst. He was educated at Amherst Schools, King's Collegiate School, Windsor, Albert College, Belleville, Ont., where he became head prefect. Following high school he performed across North and South America with the youth group "Up With People".

He studied Sociology at Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B. and the University of Arizona. He later moved to British Columbia where he was employed in the hospitality industry and for a time operated an art gallery in Calgary. In 1983 he contracted AIDS and in the years that followed devoted his entire efforts to the well being of persons with AIDS. He was responsible for the opening of the first AIDS service organization where he worked for pension benefits for partner survivors, and developed in Halifax a program aimed at prolonging the lives and improving the life quality of P.W.A.'s.

He did not only work in the AIDS Community, but in 1995 moved to Lunenburg where he was chairperson of the Lunenburg Family Resource Centre. Perhaps the most satisfying community work he did in Lunenburg was the establishment of the Farm Project of the Youth Support Programs which worked with youth with addiction problems and those afflicted by family members with addiction problems. By bringing youth back to the soil, their self-esteem and life skills were improved. In 2000 the farm participants presented him with an award of merit. A talented artist, he produced many abstract works. For three years Terry was the charter secretary of the Lunenburg Rotary Club.

Terry is survived by parents, Walter and Truleen Goodwin; sister, Patti Kim Goodwin and her husband John Weir, and his best friend, GeorgeMunroe. He will be missed by his small black dog, Ariel. He is interred in Amherst Cemetery.

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