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JAMIESON,
Flora (formerly
BOVILLE, née
MILNE)
Of Saint Thomas, formerly of Orillia, passed away at the Saint Thomas-Elgin
General Hospital on Tuesday, February 26, 2008, in her 88th year.
Wife of the late David
JAMIESON and the late Byron "Barney"
BOVILLE.
Dearly loved mother of Kevin
JAMIESON (Dorothy), Doug
JAMIESON
(Diana,) all of Saint Thomas, late Fred
JAMIESON
(Lynne of Newmarket,)
and the late Tom
JAMIESON
(Lydia of Orillia.) Step-mother of
Sue SMYLIE
(Doug) of Hawkstone, Joanne
BOVILLE of Barrie, and
the late Byron
BOVILLE.
Also fondly remembered by a number of
grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was
the last surviving member of her own immediate family, having
been predeceased by four sisters and five brothers. Born in Toronto,
Ontario, August 28, 1920, the daughter of the late George and
Agnes (PHILLIPS)
MILNE.
Flora enjoyed golfing, curling and bowling,
and was an avid outdoors person. Friends and relatives will be
received by the family at the Sifton Funeral Home, 118 Wellington
Street, Saint Thomas on Saturday from 3: 30 p.m. until the service
time of 4: 30 p.m. Following cremation, interment in St. Andrew's-Saint_James
Cemetery, Orillia. Memorial donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation
of Ontario gratefully acknowledged.
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SMYTH o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-20 published
MORGENROTH-
SMYTH,
Edith
After a short, courageous battle with cancer on Tuesday, February 19
in her 61st year. Edie will be sorrowfully missed by her husband
Mike, her sister Jean
KING
(Jim,) her brothers Don
MORGENROTH
(Donna) and Karl
MORGENROTH
(Marg,) her sister-in-law Elaine
CASE
(Dan) and her many nieces and nephews. After receiving her
degree from University of Western Ontario, Edith continued to
pursue post graduate studies and spent a long and rewarding career
at CCI and Wallaceburg District Secondary School. She was
proud of all of her students and of the accomplishments they
had achieved throughout her career. It gave her great joy to
share in their successes and to hear that she had been a major
influence in many of their lives. Family Friends and students
will deeply miss this dedicated, creative and vital woman who
inspired and challenged us all to attain the fullest potential.
Friends and relatives may call at the Hinnegan-Peseski Funeral
Home, 156 William St. S. Chatham from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. on
Thursday February 21, 2008. There will be a Private Family Service.
Interment will follow in St. Anthony's Cemetery. Donations to
the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated. Online condolences
welcomed at www.peseski.com
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SMYTH o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-07 published
THEANDER,
Irene
(SMYTH)
At South Huron Hospital, Exeter on Monday, May 5, 2008 Irene
(SMYTH)
THEANDER of Huron Park in her 90th year. Beloved wife
of the late Hugo
THEANDER (1989.) Dear mother of Douglas
THEANDER
and his friend Wendy of Leamington, Ingrid and Bill
LOYENS of
Ilderton and Paul
THEANDER and his friend Angie of Huron Park.
Dear grandmother of Duane and Noreen, Lynn, Lori and Julian,
Lisa and Dennis, Carrie-Lynn, Jamie and great-grandmother of
Deanna, Devon, Mark, Katie, Nick and Eric. Dear sister of Borden
and Mary SMYTH of Centralia. Friends may call at the Haskett
Funeral Home, 223 Main Street, Lucan on Wednesday evening 7-9 p.m.
where the funeral service will be held on Thursday, May 8th at
11 a.m. with Pastor Peter
GUMMOW officiating. Interment Saint_James
Cemetery, Clandeboye. Donations to the Victorian Order of Nurses-Palliative
Care Volunteer Program, South Huron would be appreciated by the
family. Condolences may be forwarded through www.haskettfh.com.
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SMYTH o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-06-28 published
SEATON,
Haylie
Rose
Born
June 19, 2008, baby daughter of Conrad and Brenda
(GILMOUR.)
Stayed with us only 5 days before passing away. In our hearts
she will stay forever. We will miss you Haylie Rose. Also remembered
by brother Kyle; grandparents Sandra and Jim
GILMOUR, and Ruby
and David SEATON; Taunia and Bill, Eric and Emily
SMYTH; Karen
and Dave, Grace and Hannah
BARROWCLOUGH; and beloved Friends
and family who never got to meet our dear daughter.
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SMYTH o@ca.on.simcoe_county.nottawasaga.stayner.stayner_sun 2008-04-30 published
SMITH,
Kenneth
Harold
On Saturday, April 26, 2008 at Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie.
Beloved husband of Dianne for 40 years. Loving father of Paul
(Hilary HOMER,)
Sheri
LEWIS (Scott,) and Tanya
SMITH (Denual
HOUSTON.)
Proud grandfather of Alysia, Cameron, Mya and Jayla.
Ken will be sadly missed by his brother-in-law Paul
SMYTH
(Maria)
and sisters-in-law Carol-Anne
BANDIERA and Lynda
HORNER.
Loving
Uncle of many nieces and nephews.
Ken served with the Ontario Provincial Police for 14 years in
the late sixties and seventies and was an investigator with the
Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for 13 years. Friends will
be received at the Taylor Funeral Home "Newmarket Chapel", 524 Davis
Dr., Newmarket, (905) 898-2100, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Thursday.
A mass of Christian Burial will be held at Saint_John Chrysostom
Catholic Church (432 Ontario Street, Newmarket) on Friday May 2,
2008 at 11 o'clock. Interment, Saint_John Catholic Cemetery, Newmarket.
For those who wish, donations to the Arthritis Society would
be appreciated.
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SMYTH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-02-20 published
SANDERS,
Marie (formerly
McCULLOCH, née
WILSON)
By Barbara McCulloch
MITCHELL and Alison
SMYTH,
Page L8
Lawyer, company president, golfer, world traveller, bank director.
Born March 24, 1909, in Toronto. Died August 18, 2007, in Toronto
of old age, aged 98.
When Marie
WILSON married R.J.P.
McCULLOCH six decades ago, our
family became acquainted with a wonderful and highly educated
woman who seemed a combination of fairy princess and liberated
modern businesswoman.
Marie was an only child, born in Toronto to Albert Edward
WILSON
and Marie TROTTER.
Her father was founder of A.E. Wilson and Co.
Ltd. She was brought up graciously at her parents' home in Rosedale,
the same house where she ended her days last year.
In 1912, when she was 3, Marie's father opened her first bank
account with Bank of Nova Scotia. She would later sit on the
bank's board as a director.
Marie was educated at Bishop Strachan School and went to the
University of Toronto. She graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School
in 1935.
She practised civil law until her father became sick with Alzheimer's
disease, thrusting the governance of his successful insurance
company onto her shoulders. She became vice-president and later
president upon her father's death in 1959. She rose to the challenge,
successfully remaining at the company's helm until she sold it
upon her retirement in the early 1980s.
Marie had numerous accomplishments throughout her life, and eventually
was made a Queen's Counsel.
In her youth, she excelled in athletics. She was a keen badminton
player and an avid golfer, a love that continued throughout her
life.
Fluent in French, Marie was a regular visitor at Cap d'Antibes,
France, and in later years spent winters in Palm Beach, Florida,
at The Breakers hotel.
To our family, Marie was a refined lady who could balance the
old world of her parents with the modern world of commerce and
the demands of high society. She and Doctor
McCULLOCH were married
from 1948 until his death in 1954.
In 1977, Marie married Toronto lawyer Richard
SANDERS in Palm
Beach. Marie and Dick loved to entertain, dance and take long
walks through Rosedale holding hands. Every year, they hosted
a neighbourhood invitational golf tournament at the nine-hole
putting green they had installed on their front lawn. Any visit
to their house or an invitation to one of their many private
clubs almost always included champagne cocktails - Marie's signature
drink.
Dick died in 2001, and Marie continued to live in her childhood
home.
She had style and grace, and her loyalty, family contributions,
intellect and pioneering spirit will never be forgotten. We raise
our glass in honour of Marie and toast her with a champagne cocktail.
Barbara McCulloch
MITCHELL and Alison
SMYTH are Marie's relatives.
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SAVAGE,
Dorothy
Ruth
(FROMOW)
Went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 13, 2008 in
her 87th year after a long journey with Alzheimer's. Beloved
wife of the late George
SAVAGE (1999.) Loved mother of Ruth (John
MILLER), Margaret (David
SMYTH), Stephen (Kelly
McKAY) and John
(Margaret PORTER.)
Grandmother of nine. Mom was one whose life
sought to demonstrate the love of Christ. The funeral will be
in Waterford at the Thompson-Mott Funeral Home on Thursday, March 20,
2008 at 1 p.m. with visitation one hour prior to the service.
If desired, donations can be made to Alzheimer Society of Toronto,
2323 Yonge Street, Suite 500, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9 or Key Bible
Clubs, 980 Adelaide St. South, Suite 34, London, Ontario N6E 1R3.
www.thompsonmottfuneral.com
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SMYTH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-06-28 published
Maggy REEVES, 85: Couturier
Austrian-born designer clothed Canada's rich and famous
By Iris NOWELL,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S12
Toronto -- As a child, fashion designer Maggy
REEVES became acquainted
with immense wealth and one of its conspicuous spinoffs - beautifully
dressed women. It changed her life so that years later she would
attain the pinnacle of fashion excellence in Canada.
Born into uncertain times in Austria in 1924, she was christened
Margarethe
WEISZ. As a nine-year-old growing up in Austria she
sensed only faint stirrings of the unrest around her. In 1937,
she gained an abrupt understanding when her Jewish father, Robert
WEISZ, fled the Nazis and escaped abroad, leaving behind his
Catholic wife and daughters Margarethe and Trude.
During the Second World War, the threesome moved to the countryside
where they were spared the worst of the conflict. In 1947, Margarethe
married Willibald
NAGENZAUM, a bookkeeper she had known from
her school days. The marriage lasted only two years and she,
with son Frederick, left Vienna to join her father in the Dominican
Republic. There, she discovered he had bigamously married a niece
of Rafael TRUJILLO, the country's infamous dictator. Margarethe
and her son moved in with her father and his wife and, in doing
so, rubbed shoulders with the elite of society. The women, she
discovered, were stunningly dressed.
"I was so jealous," she said years later. "I showed off by making
the wildest clothes." This achieved the desired effect: "People
looked at me."
By 1949, however, she had grown unhappy living with her father's
new wife and ran off and married James
COURTNEY, a well-to-do
Texan. This proved to be a mistake. After two tumultuous years
in Dallas, they divorced and she moved to New York where she
became an apprentice pattern maker.
In 1953, she moved to Montreal where she broadened her experience
as a junior designer. Two years later, she settled in Toronto.
There she got a foothold in couture by custom designing high-fashion
clothes. By then known as Maggy, she set up a business in her
home on Bayview Avenue in Toronto's Moore Park neighbourhood
and hired three women as seamstresses. In her window she hung
a sign: "L'elegance - Paris, Toronto, Haute Couture."
"Maggy organized little fashion shows in the living room," said
her friend Edith
BILEK, a fellow Austrian who served clients
tea and sandwiches. "That's how Maggy began."
The business developed quickly but lacked capital to expand.
A client named Reva
JOSEPH, whose husband was a prosperous car
dealer, offered the necessary backing. The new business was named
Maggy Reeves, which is derived from their first names - Maggy
and Reva. In 1957, the Maggy Reeves salon opened on Cumberland
Street in Toronto. Over time, Maggy adopted it as her own name.
The business flourished and in 1962 she married Otto
SOMLAI,
a Hungarian who had fled the 1956 revolution. At first, he worked
in a furniture factory but later quit to work alongside his wife.
By that time her salon enjoyed a staff of European-trained women
who painstakingly produced the handwork that was the Maggy Reeves
imprimatur -- beading, quilting, hand painting and embroidery.
Working with fine silk chiffon, for example, a design might comprise
six or eight hem lengths, each hand-rolled and stitched so fine
the stitches were scarcely visible. Such filmy chiffon and tiny
stitches allowed a dress to "float" as the wearer walked. It
was a distinct mark of couture.
Ms. REEVES's workers spent hundreds of hours on handwork she
could never afford to charge. Prices of her ball gowns averaged
$2,000 to $3,000, which in Paris or New York would be 10 times
higher. Her costliest design was $10,000.
Interestingly, the customer was not always right. If Ms.
REEVES
felt an outfit would not be flattering, she refused to make it
and instead devised a glamorous alternative. She steered women
away from tight-fitting clothes they thought were sexy. "If you
wear something too tight that shows your bumps," she once told
a reporter, "you will look like a snake that has swallowed eggs."
In October of 1964, an afternoon tea and fashion show at the
Park Plaza Hotel put her salon on the map. Organized by her friend
and public-relations whiz, the late Catherine
SMYTH, the event
was intended to expose Toronto women to haute couture suits,
coats and ball gowns that were the equal of Paris, Rome and New
York.
"Everybody went ga-ga," recalls Anne
CASEY, a client who modelled
in the show. "People wanted to buy the clothes right off your
back."
Clientele grew quickly and Ms.
REEVES often had difficulty obtaining
high-quality fabrics in Canada. Twice a year, she travelled to
textile mills in France, Italy and Austria in search of the best
materials. Frequently, she went to New York for the luxurious
ribbons, piping, vintage beads and Swarovski crystal buttons
that gave her designs their characteristic touch.
In 1977, a star-studded charity fashion show in Los Angeles earned
recognition in the U.S. The show, in support of the Loretta Young
Auxiliary of Saint Anne's Maternity Hospital and Home for Unwed
Mothers, was organized by Toronto broadcast journalist Edie
FRANKEL.
The clothes were modelled by the wives of actors and the event
attracted celebrities and young starlets.
However, it also produced a big problem.
"Maggy took one look at the models and said, 'I told you, no
breasts!' Ms.
FRANKEL recalled. All along, Ms.
REEVES had been
concerned that naturally busty women and breast-implanted women
would not fit her fashions. Fortunately, she had brought along
a sewing machine, and her assistant Franca
RANIERE immediately
made alterations.
Ms. REEVES continued as a leader in Canadian haut couture for
some years after that but demand diminished in the 1990s as fashion
changed to ultra casual wear. Nonetheless, with one part-time
worker she continued to make couture in her Toronto apartment
for a few loyal clients.
Maggy REEVES was born Margarethe Katharina
WEISZ in Vienna, Austria,
on October 11, 1924. She died April 9, 2008, in Toronto of heart
failure. She was 85. She is survived by her sister, Trude, and
her son Fred Courtney. She was predeceased by her husband, Otto,
in 1991.
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DAVENPORT,
Anita
Louise
Passed away suddenly on Wednesday, July 9th after valiantly fighting
a long and difficult illness. Anita is survived by her devoted
husband Barry and beloved son Paul. Loving sister to David
JONES
(Moira,) Diana
SMYTH
(Brian,)
Michael
JONES (Inta) and Jennifer
LOUNDS
(Kevin.)
Predeceased by her father Harry and mother, Dorothy
(née JOLLEY.)
Born in 1948 in Birmingham, England, Anita has
lived in Toronto since 1974. She will be greatly missed by her
family and many Friends. Our thanks go to the doctors, nurses
and care professionals who provided support during her courageous
battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Visitation will be
at the Murray Newbigging Funeral Home, 733 Mount Pleasant Road,
Toronto from 7-9 p.m. on Saturday July 12th and Sunday July 13th.
The funeral service will be held at St. Clements Anglican Church,
59 Briar Hill Road, Toronto at 11.00 a.m. on Monday, July 14th,
followed by cremation. In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy
for Anita may be made by donation to the ALS Society of Ontario.
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SMYTHE o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-06-03 published
SCHULZ,
Elsie
M. (née
SMYTHE)
Of Union, passed away at the Saint Thomas-Elgin General Hospital
on Monday, June 2, 2008, in her 89th year. Beloved wife of the
late Jack J.
SCHULZ
(July 1, 2001.) Dearly loved mother of Regina
RYCROFT and her husband David of R.R.#3, Shedden, and Florian
SCHULZ and his wife
Florence of R.R.#1, Southwold. Sister of
the late T. Elkin
SMYTHE.
Also survived by several nieces and
nephews. Born in White's Cove, New Brunswick, September 6, 1919,
she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Musetta
(ELKIN)
SMYTHE.
Elsie moved to Union from Ancaster, Ontario in 1973. In keeping
with her wishes, there will be no public visitation and a private
family funeral service will be held at the Sifton Funeral Home,
118 Wellington Street Thomas. Interment in Union Cemetery. Memorial
donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario gratefully
acknowledged.
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SMYTHE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-02-01 published
She entertained Toronto and the troops, carting her organ from
stage to stage
Born to a talented family, she became a musical fixture in a
growing city and beyond
By Noreen SHANAHAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S9
Toronto -- As a classical organist, Dorothy
BROMBY's performances
were like a soundtrack for a maturing city in the 20th century.
From her early days in cinemas, performing during intermission,
to troop shows during the Second World War and rounding up prize-winning
animals at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, her music bellowed
in the eclectic corners of Toronto's entertainment industry for
more than five decades.
Ms. BROMBY was the first female conductor at the Royal Alexandra
Theatre, and at age 20, probably the youngest. She performed,
produced and directed shows at the Winter Fair, the Royal Horse
Show, the National Home Show, Ontario Place and Yorkdale Mall.
With great dedication and care, she carted her Lowery Organ from
stage to stage.
She also inspired others to succeed. David Rogers, one of Canada's
leading musical theatre talents and former star of the Toronto
production of The Phantom of the Opera, said Ms.
BROMBY taught
him how to be a professional.
"[She said] that it was a business that had to be taken seriously.
She always commanded respect."
Dorothy BROMBY was born into a musical and entertaining family.
When her father, Harold, was still in his teens, he was personal
trumpeter to the Duke of Atholl in Aberdeen, Scotland. Later,
in Canada, he served as bandmaster for the 116th Battalion during
the First World War. When Dorothy was a child, it was not unusual
for her to find veterans camped out on the living room floor,
especially during the annual Warriors' Day Parade. She also had
an uncle who played the xylophone, drums and zither at the Canadian
National Exhibition grandstand for afternoon circus performances.
Dorothy's first public performance was as an elementary student
in Toronto's west end. In those days, children were expected
to quietly line up in front of the "girl" or "boy" entrance.
Once her piano skills became known, she was expected to be at
the keys twice a day to herd them through the proper doors. Her
uncle, Walter, even wrote a special piece of music for her called
the Western Avenue School March. By the time she was in high
school, the organ was her favourite instrument. In 1941, she
took a job playing at cinemas across Toronto, including the Odeon
Carlton, the Humber and the Danforth Music Hall.
Around the same time, she started performing for the troops at
Ontario military installations, including Camp Borden, Barryfield
and Muskoka's "Little Norway" base.
"She was the youngest member of the musicians' union," said sister
Bernice BOYD, "and our parents had to make sure the colonel in
charge at each camp would look after her."
She often teamed up with Scottish comedian Billy Meek, who went
on to a regular role on Pig and Whistle, the iconic Canadian television
variety show. In addition to troop shows, Ms.
BROMBY volunteered
to play for wounded servicemen who were convalescing in Toronto.
In her teens, Ms.
BROMBY summered in the Toronto Islands. (Her
mother, Lily, had lived there when she first came to Canada from
Belfast in the early 1920s.) The cottage lacked a piano until
one day when her parents were bicycling at the Eastern Gap harbour
entrance and spied a table grand in the sand. They borrowed a
Toronto Transit Commission freight wagon and, with Friends, pulled
it home.
"Our parents restored it as best they could," her sister said.
"And this was where Dot did all her rehearsing. When we had parties,
the piano was closed and used as a buffet table."
During the war, Ms.
BROMBY did shows at the Royal York and King
Edward hotels, performing with four other women in a group they
called The Dorothy Bromby Singers. She wrote the music and played
accompaniment on the organ, pressing the 40 stops to emit different
sounds, including trumpets, strings and drums.
In 1946, she was hired as the musical conductor for Stop and
Go, a variety revue at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre that
featured artists from wartime entertainment troupes: the Accordionettes,
the Modernettes, Lay Kenny's Teenagers, the Rhythmteens and the
Leslie Bell Singers.
John KARASTAMATIS, the theatre's current director of communications,
noted how rare it was for women of this era to be allowed to
conduct.
"Working in the home and 'slave labour' were pretty well the
only jobs for women at that time," he said.
Ms. BROMBY married fellow Ward's Islander Jim
SMYTHE in 1948.
While overseas during the war, Mr.
SMYTHE had fallen in love
with a picture of her snapped by a mutual friend. He insisted
on meeting her as soon as he was back in Toronto. Her reputation
as a musician had also charmed him while he was away.
"I fell in love with Dorothy the moment I saw her," he said.
"I married her in '48 and had 59 years of bliss. It was an island
romance."
After the war, the Singers hit the road, this time taking four
male performers along with them. They were hired by Chrysler
and General Motors to do cross-Canada tours, putting on grand
spectacles each time a new car was introduced. In 1955, Ms.
BROMBY
did a two-week run for GM, performing as many as five shows a
day. It was an exhausting but manageable schedule, even though
she had two children at home under the age of 5. The group also
performed on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television during
its early years in the 1960s, and Ms.
BROMBY later played the
organ on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation variety shows and
dramas hosted by Monty Hall and Rick Campbell.
She performed as a solo instrumentalist at the Canadian pavilion
in Montreal during Expo 67, mingling with other performers, including
Maurice Chevalier, Marlene Dietrich and a fresh-faced Luciano
Pavarotti. (Ms.
BROMBY's son, Ron, also played the clarinet in
his high school band at Expo).
Ms. BROMBY began working at the Winter Fair and Flower Show at
the Canadian National Exhibition in the late 1960s, and remained
there until she retired in 1995. It seemed as though she had
found her niche and refused to abandon it. From this point on,
she was surrounded by bouquets of flowers. Her dedication to
the job was such that she once performed with a broken wrist.
"They built a stand for her arm at keyboard height," said her
son, "and the furriers covered her cast with a mink muff that
matched the mink stole she wore."
After a few years at the flower show, Ms.
BROMBY went on to work
with the ring committee in the horse arena. Her talent as both
performer and director were particularly noted, especially on
the closing ceremonies.
Mr.
Rogers recalls the early days of his career, following Ms.
BROMBY
in circles around the ring. "I remember her with her music in
a binder, leading the troops with her singers and dancers behind.
We'd follow her through the horses and cows [stalls], she in
her fancy gown with her hair higher than anyone else's."
The ceremony consisted of a parade in the centre ring, showcasing
Ms. BROMBY on the organ. (She also wrote the script.) There were
award-winning horses festooned with flowers, colourful bushels
of fruits and vegetables, sheep, cows, geese, chickens - for
26 years, she left nothing out.
"She brought the show business pizzazz," daughter Sandy
RUTHERFORD
said. "They asked her to come back, even up to two or three years
ago… because it now lacks that extra flavour."
When the ring was full, the lights would go down - gradually,
so as not to spook the animals - and the president of the fair
would enter the gate. He'd circle the ring once or twice, sitting
with his wife in a three-horse buggy, officially close the event,
and exit to great applause.
During her retirement, Ms.
BROMBY enjoyed spending time at the
family's cottage in Haliburton, Ontario, and turning her musician's
hands over to gourmet cooking.
Dorothy Bromby
SMYTHE was born December 4, 1925, in Toronto.
She died in Toronto on December 24, 2007, from cancer. She was
82. She is survived by husband, Jim, daughters Sandy
RUTHERFORD
and Pat BUIE and son, Rob
BROMBY.
She is also survived by her
sister, Bernice
BOYD, and eight grandchildren.
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