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Published: 13 November 2008

Lida Horton

Parents remembered carer Lida’s patience and kindness

LIDA Horton, who dedicated her life to the care of children and whose decades of service to Camden babies made her a much-loved figure to a generation of parents, has died, aged 58.
Until she was forced into early retirement by illness two years ago, Lida had tended to the needs of every child taken to the baby clinic at the Crowndale Centre in Mornington Crescent since it was founded in 1989.
Born in Yugoslavia in 1949, Lida came to the UK aged 19, speaking no English but with a love of children that led to her becoming an au pair.
After marrying, she trained in haematology and worked for eight years at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, a job she left, deeply distressed at the suffering of so many children, to run the baby clinics to which concerned parents took their babies for vital primary treatment and advice as well as weighing and vaccination.
After nearly 20 years as an auxiliary nurse at the Crowndale Centre, Lida became used to being approached in the street by parents with teenage children who she had cared for as infants and who remembered with gratitude her patience, kindness and affinity with the young.
Lida died of cancer on October 23 at her home in Charrington Street, Somers Town, where she had lived for 33 years.
She leaves her daughters, Amanda and Claire, and two grandchildren. Her funeral was held at Golders Green crematorium on Friday.
PAUL KEILTHY

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