A golden lady transitions
Dear Editor,
Golding was not her given surname. She legally inherited it in holy matrimony to Sir John Golding, who is celebrated by the local Paralympic movement as its founder.
But whereas history will not record Lady Patricia Golding as the creator, the birth of the Sir John Golding Centre (formerly the Mona Rehab Centre) was her life, which, for many years, was also her “residence” where she influenced and inspired many lives that were born abled with a difference, or being rehabilitated, as well as those who cared and nurtured them as she did.
A mother who understood family as meaning a community. A lady who gifted herself to humanity with an admirable conviction and integrity.
The Jamaica Paralympic Association (JPA) salutes Lady Patricia and expresses regret to its former director, her son, Mark Golding, his sister and her daughter, Anna Louise Mohammed, and their families.
Christopher L Samuda
President
Jamaica Paralympic Association
