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MEANY,
Patrick
Donal
Anthony
Patrick was born on June 10, 1923 in Stoney Mountain, Manitoba.
He died at age 80 at Trillium Hospital in Mississauga on October
2, 2003, after a determined struggle with illness.
Patrick grew up in Ireland. As a youth he attended the same two-room
school that had been attended by his father, grandfather and
great-grandfather. He served as an officer (rank of Captain)
in the Irish Army Permanent Defence Force from 1944 to 1956.
He was a book editor and director of MacMillan Company of Canada
Ltd., and ran his own scholarly book publishing and distribution
business for over 30 years. He served as a trustee of the Dufferin-Peel
Catholic District School Board for 24 years, beginning in 1971,
and was chairman of the Board for five terms. He was president
of the Ontario School Trustees' Council, Ontario Catholic School
Trustees' Association and Director of the Canadian Catholic School
Trustees' Association. He also served on the boards of the Institute
of Catholic Education and the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education. In addition, he served as chair of the Peel Drinking
and Driving Committee and vice-chair of the Mississauga Traffic
Safety Council, as well as many other public service committees
and task forces.
Patrick will be greatly missed by his wife, Kathleen
MEANY (nee
QUIRKE;) his sister, Margaret; his children, Mary
PICARD
(Robert,)
John MEANY,
Anne
BERRY (Lionel,)
Daniel
MEANY (Robin,) James
MEANY,
Paul
MEANY (Diana) and William
MEANY; and his grandchildren,
Helen, David, Katharine, Cameron, Michael, Grace, Natalie and
Elizabeth.
Visitations will be at Scott Funeral Home, 420 Dundas Street
East (one block west of Cawthra), Mississauga 905-272-4040, on
Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.; and
on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and
from 7 to 9 p.m. A funeral mass will be held at Saint Dominic's
Roman Catholic Church, 625 Atwater Avenue (at Cawthra), Mississauga,
at 10 a.m. on Monday, October 6th. In lieu of flowers, donations
can be made to ShareLife, 155 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario
M4T 1W2.
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PICK,
Archibald
Roy
(Archie)
After a long courageous battle with pancreatic cancer, Archie
PICK died peacefully on August 23, 2003. His wife, Jeannie, was
at his side.
Archie was born August 18, 1938, in a log cabin in Red Lake,
Ontario. He moved to Winnipeg with his parents in 1941. He attended
public schools in Winnipeg, Rathwell and Notre Dame de Lourdes,
Manitoba.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Marcia, brother,
Leonard, sister, Barbara and father William. Archie is survived
by his loving wife, Jeannie, his mother Mary, son David (Christine
McCREADY,) daughters: Kirsten Ann
GAUCHER
(John) and Jennifer
Marie SANCHEZ
(Christopher) and grand_son Jacob
GAUCHER. Archie
was very proud of his family and loved them all dearly.
Archie attended the University of Manitoba and the University
of North Dakota. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering (1962)
and M.S. in Civil Engineering (1966). Archie started his professional
career with the Structural Division of Manitoba Hydro in 1962,
and after receiving his Master's degree in 1966, he joined the
Metropolitan Corporation in Greater Winnipeg (City of Winnipeg)
in the Waterworks and Waste Division. In 1973, Archie moved with
his family to Edmonton to join the newly formed Environment Canada
as head of Water Pollution Control for the Western Region (Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, Alberta, Northwest Territories). In 1976, he was
appointed Chief, Environmental Conservation Branch, Western Region,
Environment Canada. Subsequently, he left Public Service and
joined the consulting engineering firm of James F. MacLaren Limited
as General Manager of Western Canadian Operations (Alberta, Saskatchewan,
Northwest Territories, Yukon). One of the highlights of this
position was acting as Project Manager for the clean-up and recovery
of the Russian Cosmos satellite which crashed in the Northwest
Territory in the region of Great Slave Lake. In 1980, Archie
became the Executive Vice President of MacLaren Plansearch, division
of Lavalin. In 1982, he joined Interprovincial Pipe Line Limited
(Enbridge, Inc.) and was appointed as Manager, Design and Construction,
for the Norman Wells Pipeline Project, drawing on his experience
in the north, engineering, and environment. The successful completion
of this project was clearly the highlight of his career. His
career at Interprovincial Pipe Line involved him in the company's
endeavours in Canada, U.S.A., Mexico, Venezuela and Ecuador.
He retired in 1998 as a result of health concerns.
At various times, Archie taught as a part time professor in the
faculty of Engineering at the University of Manitoba and the
University of Alberta. During his working career, he had been
registered as a Professional Engineer in Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
Alberta and the Northwest Territory. He was a Life Member of
the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists.
Archie, along with Marcia and his children, was an avid skier
and was involved with Alpine Ski Racing throughout most of his
adult life. He was a Life Member of the Edmonton Snow Valley
Ski Club; a senior official of the Alberta Alpine Division of
the Canadian Ski Association; served as North Zone Chairman for
Canadian Ski Association-Alpine Division; was a long time member
of the Edmonton Superbowl Ski team.
Archie and Jeannie were married in 1993 and lived in Edmonton
until Archie's retirement in 1998. Since then they have divided
their time between their cottage at Clear Lake and their home
on Vancouver Island, enjoying family, Friends, and time together.
A bright, shining, steady light has gone from our lives, but
will remain in our hearts forever. A memorial service was conducted
in Erickson, Manitoba and another memorial service will be held
on Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 2: 00 p.m. in the Knox United
Church, Parksville, British Columbia.
In lieu of flowers, memoriam to Canadian Diabetes Association,
Heart and Stroke Foundation or Cancer Research.
Rae's Funeral Service of Erickson, Manitoba, were in care of
the arrangements. (204) 636-7727.
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George
Eli
Amos
PICKARD
February 12, 1921 - January 30, 2003
George PICKARD, a resident of Gore Bay, died at the Mindemoya
Hospital on Thursday, January 30, 2003 at the age of 81 years. He
was born at Ice Lake,
son of the late Robert and Elizabeth
BRANDOW)
PICKARD.
George had worked for 7 years at
INCO, then returned home
and farmed for 46 years, retiring to Gore Bay in 1989. He was a
member of the United Church, and had many interests including
gardening, fishing, and doing crossword puzzles. His greatest love
was his family. He thoroughly enjoyed spending time with all his
family, especially his grandchildren and great grandchildren. he was
a kind and caring husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather,
and will be sadly missed, but many memories will be cherished.
Dearly loved husband of Margaret
(McARTHUR)
PICKARD of Gore Bay.
Loved and loving father and father-in-law of Ken and Carol
PICKARD of
Espanola, Sheila and Joe
BRANDOW of Ice Lake and Marilyn
PRIOR and
friend Hector of Ice Lake. Proud grandfather of Mike and Kendal,
Wendy and Steven, Patti and Maurice, Jason, Diane and Oliver, Connie
and Chadwick and Sherry and great grandchildren Kyle, Matthew, Carly,
Shelby and Christian. Dear brother of Alvin
PICKARD of Silver Water
and Elizabeth
ROBERTSON of Gore Bay. Also survived by many nieces
and nephews. Predeceased by sister Laura and brothers Robert,
Norman, Earl, John and Cecil.
Friends called the Culgin Funeral Home after 7: 00 pm on Friday. The
funeral service was conducted in the Wm. G. Turner Chapel on
Saturday,
February 1, 2003 at 11: 00 am with Geraldine
BOULD
officiating. Spring interment in Gordon cemetery.
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SMITH,
Margaret
Blakely (née
BURNS)
Died peacefully at the Scarborough Hospital, Grace Division,
of cancer, on February 16, 2003. Daughter of Charles
BURNS and
Sara Margaret
BLAKELY.
Sister of Katharine Steele
(BURNS,
YOUNG)
PICKEN.
Beloved wife of James Edwin (Ted)
SMITH and a wonderful
mother to Katharine Blakely
SMITH and James Charles
SMITH
(Cheryl.)
Grandmother of Althea
ALISON and Michelle Meagan
SMITH, and ''Grandma''
to Robin MILLER and Ciera and Ryan
GAUTREAU.
Born in Ottawa,
she was a graduate of Glebe Collegiate and Queen's University
where she was a member of the Senior Ladies hockey and basketball
teams. For five years she enjoyed teaching high school in Manotick
until her marriage to Ted in 1948. The family moved from Ottawa
to Toronto in 1963. A memorial service will be held at the Trinity
Presbyterian Church, 2737 Bayview Avenue (south of Hwy. 401),
on Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m. Spring interment
of cremated remains will be held in Norway Bay, Quebec. If you
wish, in lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Trinity
Memorial Fund, 2737 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M2L 1C5.
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McDONALD,
Gordon
Alexander (a Founder and President of Guelph
Twines)
Died of cancer at the Freeport Health Centre, Kitchener, on Monday,
September 22, 2003. Gordon Alexander
McDONALD, aged 70 years,
was the beloved husband of Marilyn (née
PICKERING)
McDONALD of
Guelph. He was the loving father of Lori and her husband David
THOMAS of Calgary, Alberta, Mark
McDONALD and his wife
Susan
WAHLROTH, and Paul
McDONALD, all of Guelph. Gordon was the proud
grandfather of Robyn, Brynlee, Duncan, Chelsea, and Jack. He
was the dear brother of Pat
MILLER,
Bruce
McDONALD, and Judy
JACKETT.
Private cremation has taken place. The family will receive Friends
at Gilbert MacIntyre and son Funeral Home and Chapel, 252 Dublin
St. N., Guelph, on Friday, October 3, 2003 from 7-9 p.m. A Memorial
Service will take place in the chapel on Saturday, October 4,
2003 at 11 a.m. As expressions of sympathy, donations to a charity
of one's choice would be appreciated by the family (cards available
at the funeral home (519-822-4731) or email info@gilbertmacintyreandson.com
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GELBER,
Sylva
Malka, OC, LL.D.
93 years old, Sylva Malka
GELBER, whose years of activism in
pre-Israel Palestine eventually propelled her to be the first
director of the Canadian Department of Labour's Women's Bureau,
died on December 9th, 2003, of complications from a stroke. She
was 93 and lived in Ottawa.
During the heady years of pioneering in gains for women's rights
and Medicare in Canada during the 1960s and 70s, she travelled
the country, never shrill and always reasoned in her campaign
for equality for women in the country's labour force. She took
this pragmatic approach to the United Nations where she represented
Canada on the United Nations Commission for the Status of Women
between 1970 - 74.
A social and industrial activist at heart, she never lost her
zest for a good argument on those issues which had been part
of her adult life since she left her comfortable Toronto home
in the early 1930s for the turmoil of Jerusalem and Palestine.
There she became the first graduate of the Va'ad Leumi School
of Social Work - now the Faculty of Social Work of the Hebrew
University - and took on jobs incongruous with her upbringing
which had included schooling at Havergal College, a private girl's
school.
She worked in Palestine during the Mandate as a family counsellor,
a probation officer and medical social worker at Hadassah Hospital,
and then with the Palestine Department of Labour from 1942 -
48 when she returned to Canada. The adventuresome 15 years Sylva
GELBER lived in the turmoil of Palestine are chronicled with
affection, awe and frankness in ''No Balm in Gilead: A Personal
Retrospective of Mandate Days in Palestine'' published in 1989.
By the time she moved back to Canada, she could switch effortlessly
among Hebrew and Arabic and English which impressed no one in
bureaucratic Ottawa, but did startle the Capital's stuffy side,
she often noted mischievously.
Her deep red lipstick and nail polish when paired with her fast
sports cars belied the image of the traditional Ottawa civil
servant she could never be, despite distinguished and proud accomplishments
in promoting federal health insurance and Medicare until they
became the law of the land.
Along the way, she accepted many appointments to serve Canada
at International Labour Organization conferences, the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development and the United Nations
General Assembly. She was a member of the Order of Canada and
was awarded honorary degrees from several universities including
Queen's, Memorial, Trent, Guelph and Mount St. Vincent.
Sylva Malka
GELBER was born in 1910 in Toronto to Sara
(MORRIS)
and Louis GELBER.
Her father, a survivor of pogroms in Eastern
Europe, was determined that her four brothers, all of whom attended
Upper Canada College, and she, all receive worldly educations
beyond their specific Jewish community. She always admired her
father for this farsightedness in encouraging his children to
become part of a broader society.
At the University of Toronto, she produced plays. She sang spirituals
on a Toronto radio station, but her parents would have none of
a show business career. She was packed off to Columbia University
in New York; but even that did not satisfy her rambunctious spirit
and soon she was on her way to distant Palestine.
Never domesticated as women of her day usually were, she paid
little attention to her kitchen pantry when she finally settled
in Ottawa; but always gregarious, she loved to entertain around
the piano which she played by ear and with great gusto. Her library
of records and Compact Disks, was always in use as music filled
her life; and she has endowed an important annual prize through
The Sylva Gelber Music Foundation, which is granted to an outstanding
young Canadian musician at the early stage of his or her career.
In retirement, she energetically participated in the Canadian
Institute of International Affairs and the Wednesday Luncheon
Club of former cabinet ministers and civil servants, such as
her neighbour, Jack
PICKERSGILL, who thrashed over current political
issues.
Sylva GELBER was predeceased by her four brothers, Lionel, Marvin,
Arthur and Shalome Michael. She is survived by her four nieces
and their husbands, Nance
GELBER and Dan
BJARNASON,
Patty and
David RUBIN,
Judith
GELBER and Dan
PRESLEY, and Sara and Richard
CHARNEY, all of Toronto; her sister-in-law, Marianne
GELBER of
New York; four great nephews and a great niece, Gerald and Noah
RUBIN, and Adam, Andrew and Laura
CHARNEY; as well as cousins
Ruth JEWEL and David
EISEN; David
ALEXANDOR, and Ruth
GELBER
all of Toronto; and Ivan
CHORNEY and Betsy
RIGAL, both of Ottawa.
At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West
(1 light west of Dufferin) for service on Thursday, December
11, 2003 at 12: 00 noon. Interment Beth Tzedec Memorial Park.
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The day the music didn't die
Beloved Toronto trumpeter credited with helping preserve a unique
form of New Orleans jazz
By Sarah LAMBERT
Thursday,
March 6, 2003 - Page R9
Toronto -- The tightly knit world of New Orleans traditional
jazz has lost one of its greats with the death, last month, of
Cliff (Kid)
BASTIEN, leader of Toronto's treasured Happy Pals.
The trumpeter is credited as having nothing less than single-handedly
kept alive the unique, raw, New Orleans style of jazz, through
his leadership and mentorship of hundreds of musicians.
Saddened fans and musicians filed into the city's Grossman's
Tavern all week last month to pay tribute to Mr.
BASTIEN at the
long-time home of the Happy Pals, where the walls are lined with
photos of his fans and musicians. It was a send-off worthy of
New
Orleans, birthplace of the kind of jazz Mr.
BASTIEN played
with his seven-piece bands, the Camelia Jazz Band and later the
Happy Pals, during the 30 or so years he played at the Toronto
landmark.
"He was never late. Never, never ever, said Christine
LOUIE,
whose family inherited Mr.
BASTIEN's
Saturday-afternoon gig when
Al GROSSMAN sold the bar in 1975.
So it was with sinking hearts on February 8 that his loyal audience
and band members watched the minute hand tick past 4 o'clock,
waiting for him to arrive, brass trumpet in hand.
When he was found later that afternoon still sitting in his armchair,
apparently looking up a new song in his hymn book, the Happy
Pals played on and raised a glass in tribute to their leader
who died as he lived, surrounded by music. He was 65 years old.
Noonie SHEARS, a long-time friend and leader of the traditional
impromptu parade that would inevitably snake through Grossman's
as Saturday afternoon wound down, said she thought Mr.
BASTIEN
was looking up I'll Fly Away, the old gospel song recently dusted
off in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The band played it for the first time at Mr.
BASTIEN's official
memorial at Grossman's the Saturday following his death.
Born in 1937 in London's East End, Mr.
BASTIEN emigrated to Canada
in 1962 after a stint in New Orleans. It was there that he heard
trumpeter (Kid) Thomas
VALENTINE play and, experiencing a kind
of epiphany, Mr.
BASTIEN followed him from club to club and studied
his style. It ultimately inspired a lifelong ambition to keep
alive New Orleans-style traditional jazz.
A purist who drew a distinction between his chosen genre of music
and the more popularized Dixieland Jazz, Mr.
BASTIEN once said:
"Had I never heard that music, I wouldn't have become a musician.
I wouldn't play anything else."
I Like Bananas, Caledonia, All of Me and Louisiana Vie en Rose
were just a few of his standards. But, as Happy Pals' trombonist
Roberta TEVLIN explained, Mr.
BASTIEN wasn't content to simply
recycle the old chestnuts.
"Cliff kept adding songs. I've probably played 1,000 different
tunes with him. He was particularly notorious for finding songs
outside the standard jazz list, said Ms.
TEVLIN, who joined
the band 20 years ago, along with her saxophonist husband, Patrick.
Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Western Swing numbers,
Nigerian folk songs and Dean Martin could all tumble out during
a set, said drummer Chuck
CLARKE.
Mr. BASTIEN's
Friends and peers point out that he was known for
three primary qualities: His love of music, his scorn for fame
or publicity and his mentoring of local musicians.
During the memorial at Grossman's, Downchild Blues Band headman
Donny WALSH arrived from Florida to sit in with his harmonica,
as he had done regularly with Mr.
BASTIEN in the 1970s. Juno-nominated
bluesman Michael
PICKETT was there, as well as jazz singer Laura
HUBERT, formerly of the Leslie Spit Treeo, pianist Peter
HILL,
The Nationals and many more.
From the worldwide New Orleans jazz community, among those who
came to pay their respects were saxophonist Jean-Pierre
ALESSI
of France, trumpeter Roger (Kid Dutch)
UITHOVEN of Orlando, Florida,
clarinetist Kjeld
BRANDT from Denmark and Toronto's Brian
TOWERS,
Jan SHAW and Joe
VAN
ROSSEM.
"I cannot imagine the Toronto traditional jazz scene without
Cliff BASTIEN and his raw, emotional New Orleans-style jazz,
Mr. TOWERS wrote in a notice posted on the Internet shortly
after he learned of the death of his friend.
"He was probably the most popular and influential figure on the
Toronto traditional jazz scene. He taught many others to play
their instruments in the style and introduced thousands to the
joys of New Orleans traditional jazz.
"We went to Grossman's after our own gig and Jan and I played
some hymns with the Happy Pals. A sadder and more emotional scene
I have rarely seen."
Toronto musician Joanne
MacKELL, leader of the Paradise Rangers,
wonders how things might have been if she had not met Mr.
BASTIEN
when she was just starting out.
"Though I was young and inexperienced, Kid would always invite
me up to sing, Ms.
MacKELL said, recalling how the band took
her under its wing when she discovered them in the early 1970s.
"Kid didn't care about money or popular opinion. He filled Grossman's
Tavern every Saturday for some 30 years because he played great
music with honesty and integrity and he inspired me to try and
do the same."
Until just last year, Mr.
BASTIEN, who feared flying, avoided
the lure of the road, taking only an annual sojourn to New Orleans
for the French Quarter Festival. Finally, in the fall of 2002,
he accepted an invitation to tour Scandinavia with the Danish/Swedish
band New Orleans Delight, playing with George
BERRY on tenor
sax. A new Compact Disk is due to be released this spring.
His official recordings are few, numbering about a dozen, as
Mr. BASTIEN preferred to play to an audience. Though, as Ms.
TEVLIN pointed out: "There are bootleg tapes all over the place."
His legacy, the band says, is keeping the New Orleans style of
jazz alive.
"Kid Thomas
VALENTINE was one of the greats, and when he was
gone, Kid BASTIEN carried on. Kid
BASTIEN was one of the greats,
and now Kid's gone. So who's going to carry the music on now?
We will, said saxophonist Mr.
TEVLIN on behalf of the Happy
Pals, who intend to continue the Saturday-afternoon tradition
at Grossman's.
In another side to his life, Mr.
BASTIEN was an accomplished
commercial artist whose hand-crafted signs, woodwork and acid-etched
glass can be seen in many local pubs, including Toronto's Wheat
Sheaf Tavern. His work can be found across Ontario, Quebec, British
Columbia and California, as well as in Europe.
Mr. BASTIEN's wish was to be buried in New Orleans.
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Laura Barbara
DICKSON/DIXON
By Ruth TAILOR/TAYLOR
Wednesday,
August 6, 2003 - Page A16
Mother, grandmother, poet. Born May 7, 1907, in Nelson Township,
Ontario Died July 6, in Eden Mills, Ontario, of natural causes,
aged 96.
Born
Laura
Barbara
PRUDHAM on the family farm, my mother was
the daughter of Charles and Anna
(PICKETT)
PRUDHAM.
She was a
fifth-generation Canadian, a grand-niece of Laura
SECORD.
She
was the middle child of a family of five, with two older brothers
and two younger sisters. Proud of her heritage, Laura was destined
to become the family historian.
Laura had many wonderful memories of her childhood: of Christmas
trees lit with real candles, of rides over the crisp snow to
church, sleigh bells jingling all the way. She had vivid memories
of the first automobile, the first airplane. She lived through
two world wars and the Great Depression, saw man walk on the
moon.
The farm was a busy place, with everyone contributing: Laura
raised chickens, milked cows, made butter, sold produce at the
Hamilton Market. They left the farm at 2: 30 a.m. to travel through
the snowy roads in winter. Bricks were heated in the wood stove,
put in the bottom of the horse-drawn sleigh box for warmth. Buffalo
robes helped keep them warm on that long dark trip. In summer,
they worked the farm fields from dawn until dusk; the only day
of rest, Sunday.
It was Laura's dream to go on to high school after passing the
entrance exam, but it was not to be; she was required at home.
A determined young lady, she took courses, and studied independently.
She won two scholarships for short courses at the Macdonald Institute,
now the University of Guelph.
Laura taught Sunday School, she played the church organ after
teaching herself to play the piano, she sang in the choir. Along
with her sister, Anna, they became a popular singing duo in the
area. Tea Meetings, and young people's groups were a part of
her life within the church. Laura and Friends produced plays
to entertain and compete in the area.
Laura met her husband, Lorne
DICKSON/DIXON, at a community dance. They
dated, and were married February 14, 1940. They resided on the
DICKSON/DIXON family farm, Limestone Hall, near Milton, Ontario, where
they farmed until 1961. Lorne and Laura's children, Ruth and
Robert, grew up on that farm, a wonderful place for children.
Laura's many hobbies included watercolour and oil painting, photography,
gardening, baking, and most of all, writing. Walks in the spring
wildflowers inspired her first lines of poetry. Later she wrote:
"I took a walk in the woods today / Down winding paths where
I used to play." She had three books of poetry published, including
Changing Seasons in 1997. She won the Milton Heritage Writing
Award in 1998 for her collective works. Her poetry was chosen
in 2001 to be part of a diary of new and established Canadian
poets.
Laura was a life member of the Women's Institute, and lived by
their motto "For Home and Country." She was a life member of
the Women's Missionary Society, a member of the Milton Horticulture
Society, and the Milton Historical Society.
In later years, after Lorne passed away, her greatest love became
her grandchildren; they gave her many years of joy. She loved
to play, and led them on adventures to the mall, travelling all
over on the bus, supplying treats as only grandmothers can. She
listened to their dreams, gave encouragement. All the while,
she continued to record her life in poetry.
She loved her family, her community, her country -- she was one
of that special group of women, born around the turn of the 20th
century, who had to create their own opportunities, find their
way in a world that was not quite ready to give equality to women.
Laura accomplished a great many things, and through it all, she
remained a lady, loved and respected by all who had the pleasure
of knowing her.
Ruth TAILOR/TAYLOR is Laura's daughter.
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