WINNIPEG — It’s been 15 years since Ellen Judd lost her beloved partner Christine Egan. But, not a day goes by that she doesn’t think about her.
Sunday marks 15 years since thousands of people lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands lost friends and loved ones to the 9-11 attacks in New York in 2001.
Ellen Judd’s partner, Christine Egan, had gone to visit her brother in New York and was in the towers visiting her brother’s work when the attack happened.
Judd said Egan was there to take care of her nephew who lives with down syndrome so that her brother and his wife could go on a trip.
“I think she made the world a happier place for people around her and I’m beginning to do that,” said Judd.
Judd said on each 9-11 she tries to keep her day minimally busy and makes sure she stay in touch with family.
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In 2011 she said she went to the memorial built in New York and was happy to see Christine’s name and her brother’s names etched in to the 9-11 memorial.
“It was a sort of privilege to know her,” said Judd.
Judd said Egan was a nurse practitioner in Winnipeg for Health Canada with a keen desire to help people and support them.
“She just made people’s lives happier,” said Judd.
Her nursing friends joined together and decided to take Egan’s desire to help people and combine it with a wonderful way to remember her.
They created a scholarship to help nursing students in the north.
While Judd will always carry with her the memories of her partner, she said she’ll also try and learn from the positive outlook Egan always had.
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