My Daughter: Geologist Alice Louise Wain (1975-2000) in Scottish Highlands

This lovely, natural young woman is my daughter, Dr. Alice Wain - she sadly died aged 27, only 3 weeks after this was taken: a terrible loss to this family and her many friends. She was a double Oxford graduate (she did both degrees there: she was a "scholar" graduate of Hertford College - gaining a top first-class batchelor degree, then a well-regarded D. Phil., both in Earth Science; she also published academic papers). Here Alice was on holiday at Easter in April 2000, with friends from Edinburgh - they were walking in the beautiful, wild Coulin Mountains on the Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands. Less than 3 weeks later she died instantly in a road crash (in a Land Rover which left the road and fell into a small ravine: she died with another British Geological Survey colleague, though 3 survived, one unhurt). This was in the Cairngorms area of the Highlands near Grantown-on-Spey, where the team of 5 was doing geological research. She phoned us on a "mobile" from a mountain top in Skye (as here) on Easter Sunday - her last ever call to us - in April, 2000. I have just had these pictures of Alice (plus others of her graduation) put on disc, so that I can show them to others. She died 5 years ago on May 3rd, 2000; her funeral was 2 weeks later on May 18th, in the Chapel of Hertford College Oxford, where she was well known. We (her close family) remember her with love, still feeling her loss. She is buried under a silver birch tree in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford, England - not far from her favourite author, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Reverend Michael Chantry, the Chaplain of Hertford while she was there. A simple wooden seat is engraved "in memory", with her name and dates.... Alice - you are always in our hearts.