PUJOLL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-01 published
TOOMATH,
Dwyla
Beryl (née
PARKS)
Passed away peacefully on the morning of August 27, 2005, being
the morning of her 59th birthday at Toronto Grace Hospital, after
a courageous but uncomplaining 2-year battle against cancer.
Dwyla was the second youngest child of Orville and Ermel
PARKS
of Ottawa, in which city she was awarded her Diploma to be a
Registered Nurse from the Ottawa Civic Hospital in 1966. She
subsequently moved to London, Ontario and was very active in
patient nursing care and research at the now University Hospital
of that city. She then moved to Toronto where she continued her
nursing career both as a caregiver and in research, becoming
head nurse at the Addiction Research Foundation of the Clark
Institute.
She married Ernest Hugh
TOOMATH in August of 1977
and upon the birth of their second child, Bram, she elected to
leave her nursing for a period to raise and educate Sarah Courtney
and Bram, whom she taught to ski and to whom she passed on her
great love of travel, particularly extended ski holidays, which
gave her and her children a great deal of pleasure. Whilst in
Toronto and raising her family she enrolled at the University
of Toronto and obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Woodsworth
College and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. This latter
course she completed with sufficiently high honours that she
was invited to become a member of the Sigma Theta Tau, International
Honour Society of Nursing, Lambda Pi Chapter. She was a traditional
hands-on nurse and enjoyed her caregiving role even more than
her research work; she was tireless in her efforts and always
found time for her patients and fellow workers. Dwyla was always
ready to lend an extra hand or a timely piece of advice to younger
nurses. She was loved and very much admired and respected by
both her patients and fellow workers, who will miss her energy,
kindness and cheerful smile. Dwyla brought to all she did a very
positive outlook and boundless energy, which was demonstrated
not only at the workplace but in her home. She was full of life
and kept a good sense of humour to the end, giving support and
good humour to her family, particularly to her two children,
in whom she was justly proud. At her request, Dwyla is being
cremated and at the request of her husband there will be a High
Mass said at St. Paul's Basilica of Toronto, located at 83 Power
Street (Queen Street East and Power Street) 416-364-7588 on Wednesday,
September 7, 2005 at 5: 30 p.m. Thereafter Dwyla's remains will
be taken to Ottawa to be interred with her parents and her three
brothers who have predeceased her, Weldon, Dalton and Rodney.
She is survived by her sisters, Margarit, Romelda and Lorraine
of Ottawa, by Dolores and Karen of Florida and her brother, Basil
of Saskatchewan. For further inquiries you may contact Betty
PUJOLL @ 416-869-0900.
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