WE WERE all saddened to learn of the death on June 21 of Bowmore resident Cath Crawford who was well known in Gaelic singing circles and where Highland choral voices were raised in unison. She was 86 years of age and died at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley following major surgery from which she appeared to be making a good recovery.
Cath Crawford was the moving force behind the local Mòd.
Cath was born in August 1929 and brought up in Clydebank to Islay parents whose roots were firmly embedded in the Conespie district of the Rhinns. As a teenager, she joined the Clydebank Gaelic Choir which was then under the direction of conductor Tom Crawford, a young schoolteacher who also had a strong Argyll background through his family connections with Dunoon.