Death from cancer of popular Perthshire shop owner prompts sisters to pound the streets

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Perth’s Cornhill Macmillan Centre on January 25.His daughters Sharon Johnston (43) and Lynne Gibson (41) wanted to do something to remember their dad so are taking part in the March the Month virtual challenge.This sees them walking 11,000 steps a day throughout March to “represent more than 11,000 dads, partners, grandads, sons, brothers, uncles and mates who die from prostate cancer every year”.“He was still young,” Sharon, from Perth, told the Perthshire Advertiser. “He had not had a retirement to enjoy.

He worked six or seven days a week.“From January to September he still worked. He was attending hospital appointments but he kept the shop open right through the first lockdown to make sure the village was well served.“He knew he had.