CUSIMANO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-04 published
PRICE,
Olinda
Ribau
(Member Of Saint Dominic Catholic Church, Oakville)
After a valiant battle with cancer Olinda Ribau
PRICE passed
away peacefully at Ian Anderson House on Wednesday, October 3,
2007. Beloved wife of the late Paul
PRICE. Cherished mother of
Vivelinda RIBAU. Dear stepmother of Judy (Hugo)
VIGNALI,
Jackie
PRICE and Paul (Sandra)
PRICE.
Loving grandmother of John Paul,
Andrew, David, Jonathan, David and Victoria. Visitation will
be held at the Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral Home, 64 Lakeshore
Road West, Oakville (one block east of Kerr, 905 844-2600) from
7-9 p.m. Friday October 5, 2007. Funeral Mass 10: 30 a.m. Saturday
at Saint Dominic Catholic Church, 2415 Rebecca Street, Oakville.
Cremation. In lieu of flowers donations to the Ian Anderson House
would be appreciated by the family. Many thanks to the Friends
who helped out. Special thanks to Doctor
CUSIMANO for his compassion
and humanity. Most deep sincere gratitude to Doctor
McCANN for the
outstanding care he provided to Olinda. This remarkable man is
an honour to his profession. May God reward him. Condolences
and tributes at www.koprivataylor.com
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CUSSEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-07 published
COSTELLO-
BATKE,
Sheila
Runner, conversationalist, financial compliance analyst, wife,
mother, sister, friend. Born September 17, 1946, in Dublin. Died
July 1 in Toronto of cancer, aged 60.
By Michael
CUSSEN,
Page L6
'I'm just a girl who can't say no," was usually the way Sheila
liked to announce herself. That could explain why when she was
diagnosed with cancer she left for Siena, Italy, the next day
to take a six-week course in art history.
Sheila was born into a small, cold house in Dublin that held
a big, warm family: five girls head-to-toe in one bedroom and
four boys in the other. She left school at 15 and later fled
to Paris where she worked as an au pair and learned to cook an
omelette - but not much else.
She went back to Ireland for a while but then took off again
to Toronto's Bloor West Village. In the early seventies, Bloor
West Village was a place of brown clothes, corduroy couches and
bad hair. But Sheila loved it and immersed herself in the community.
Whenever she could, she found herself a stage and sang Gilbert
and Sullivan.
For many years, she put her head down and worked hard in the
financial sector. With her husband, Dwight, she created a warm,
welcoming and loving home. She was incredibly proud of her two
children, Emmett and Adrienne, but at times they drove her mad
- and she them. As Emmett put it at her funeral: "For some reason,
it was always my mom who got the undercooked meals at restaurants,
who would flash her chest at the end of a race, who chose to
dress up in absurd costumes, or who was the only white woman
dancing in the Caribana parade."
Sheila held musical soirees and kitsch auctions to raise money
for charity. She also took part in more than 10 marathons. Three
years in a row, she persuaded her running Friends to take part
in the Cabot Trail 24-hour relay. None of them will ever forget
her running up Cape Smokey with a broad smile the week before
she was diagnosed with cancer.
Sheila had few vices beyond the odd martini, a tendency to fuss
and a need to break into song at inappropriate times. She had
a pathological hatred of cats and little time for dogs.
A month before she died, Sheila phoned to ask me to her funeral.
For me, it was an awkward conversation, but Sheila never minded
awkward situations; she thrived on them. She organized her funeral
herself, convinced of the power and importance of the ritual
in allowing people to grieve. At one stage in the ceremony, she
had arranged for gifts to be brought to the altar. One was a
copy of James Joyce's Ulysses. She loved the fact that the last
word in the book was the most positive in the English language.
It could also have been a summation of Sheila's life: Yes.
Michael CUSSEN is Sheila's brother-in-law and friend.
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