THE DEATH of John Matheson, of 5 Camus an Arbhair, Plockton, at the Highland Hospice, Inverness, on June 12, cast a gloom over the village and saddened his many friends. He was 79-years-old. He had been at the hospice for only three weeks after a long battle at home with cancer, which he endured with fortitude and good humour.
John was born in Plockton, the youngest son of Willie and Jessie Matheson, of 8 Harbour Street. He was a brilliant scholar at Plockton School and in 1955 he went to college in Paisley where he got his qualification in electrical engineering.
In 1960, he was appointed the first engineering assistant with the South of Scotland Electricity Board. In 1962, he went to Manchester for industrial training, before moving to Glasgow and then to Oban in 1964 as a distribution engineer. A few years later he was appointed distribution engineer in Dingwall and lived in Muir of Ord. He retired in 1992 and came back to live in Plockton.