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Our Grandfather developed Parkinson's later in life. We didn't understand the impact until our own father (there are 8 of us) also developed Parkinson's. Harry Foster Smith III, eldest living son and a nurse has been researching Parkinson's Disease and advising the rest of us (Harry Smith Jr. had 8 children) on medical and emotional status of our father as he aged, and Parkinson's continued to advance, starting with issues with imbalance, to reduced mobility until his final days in Wilmington, NC. Each of us visited when we could. While his mind was sharp as a tack with his primary area of expertise in Data Structures (where he authored an 800 page graduate level text on the subject), computer graphics, parallel computing, and fractels and chaos theory. He was also a Fulbright senior lecturer in Computer Science At the University of Madrid for the academic year 1966, 1967. He was an avid outdoorsman taking us backpacking in Yosemite every summer, a world traveler, and semi professional ballroom dancer. Although his balance issues continued with age, he continued to dance more and more often, nearly unaffected by any balance issues while dancing, until he was eventually in a wheel chair as his mobility weakened. Harry F. Smith Jr. died October 1, 2015. His children are committed to continue learning more about Parkinson's, so that we may educate our children on the subject matter in order to raise awareness and funds to support research.