Sheila MacLeod, who has died in her 81st year, will be remembered by the Arran community and beyond as a GP with extraordinary diagnostic skills and for her tireless and enthusiastic work as secretary of the Arran Hospital Supporters’ League. But she was also a hotel landlady, a caring wife, loving mother and very proud gran and great-grandmother.
\Sheila on the left in October 2015 across from the Argentine Hotel in Whiting Bay, with early supporters of the League, left to right, Sandra Hall, John Pennycott and Neilie McKechnie.
Sheila was born in Cambuslang in 1936, the only child of David and Catherine Donald. David was a solicitor and Catherine was herself a doctor. Both parents, and Sheila’s education at George Watson’s Ladies’ College in Edinburgh, were a major and formative influence on Sheila’s character and positive attitude to public service.