Thursday, February 8, 2001
By RACHEL EVANS
Edmonton Sun EDMONTON -- The Moffatts said goodbye with a song to
an Edmonton fan who had become a friend at her funeral this week.
The pop band paid their respects to Lindsey McLachlan, 16,
with an appearance at her funeral Tuesday at Memories Funeral
Chapel where they sang a song in honour of the girl who had been
fighting a lifelong battle with liver cancer.
"It was just amazing what they came and did,"
said McLachlan's close friend Krystal McDowell.
"They're such nice people. I know she would have loved
it."
McDowell said her friend first met the Moffatts after the
performers' manager read a story about McLachlan in a newspaper
in which the teenager said she'd like a dream date with band
member Scott Moffatt.
That dream came true a year ago when they flew McLachlan in
for dinner in Calgary.
Another time the group sang to McLachlan at an Edmonton
show.
The Moffatts dedicated Tuesday's concert to McLachlan.
McDowell said the band members talked to McLachlan on the
phone and even visited her in hospital, where she spent the last
five months.
"Scott was definitely her favourite," she said.
"They just loved her. They were really good friends
with her.
"They'd given her backstage passes to their (Edmonton)
concert (Tuesday) but she didn't make it.
"We wanted to thank them because it was so amazing
what they had done."
McLachlan had battled liver cancer several times since she
was a toddler, and succumbed last week following a liver
transplant using part of her mother's organ, a bout with chicken
pox and an infection.
The funeral chapel at 13403 St. Albert Tr. was overflowing
with mourners, McDowell said, adding it is a testament to the
wonderful person her friend was.
(Original text: http://www.canoe.ca/AllPop-Moffatts/010207_funeral-sun.html )