Margaret (Peggy) Jacobs recently of Meadowbrook Seniors Residence died on Monday, December 28th, 2009. She will be remembered on Salt Spring Island for her ready smile, her lively conversation, her interest in the arts, in conservation and hiking and her strong interest in the sciences.

She leaves to remember her fondly her two children, Angela and Adrian, her three grandchildren Tom, Peter and Leslie, and seven great-grandchildren as well as many many good friends in Western Canada, especially on the island and some still in England.

Peggy was born close to the Lake District in England in 1916 and met her future husband, George, during beagling meets, but they also enjoyed field hockey, mountain climbing and kayaking, the latter especially on the great rivers of Europe.

She was persuaded not to study sciences or engineering where she really wanted to go, and instead studied Home Economics at Battersea Polytechnic in London and then became a school teacher in her native Barrow-in-Furness.

After marriage to George, by now a solicitor (lawyer) they settled outside Windsor, England where they raised their two children. In addition during the war years she worked to increase voting registration especially among women, made electrical coils for the war effort, started a kindergarten initially in a spare bedroom in their flat which then moved to it’s own building. She also gave cooking lessons for both children and adults in nearby Windsor.

The family moved to Edmonton, Alberta in the mid ‘50s. She initially became a substitute teacher in junior high schools, then moved to the Correspondence School teaching Grade XII biology. She was then asked to redesign and rewrite the course. This lead to her preparing a series of TV programs to teach distant Correspondence School student supervisors around the province about the new course. In order to increase her understanding of teaching and communication she went back to university to earn an M.Ed in Educational Psychology (with distinction). Peggy was then taken on as a faculty member by University of Alberta, Faculty of Home Economics, to teach communications, especially to the young women who would become dieticians in the community. Her final academic position was as Research Associate in the brand new Athabasca University.

Peggy was widowed in 1965 and remarried in 1974, returning to Cambridge, England where they lived in a unique National Trust protected house some 500 years old. She was able to meet and become friends with many world-renowned scientists, including Stephen and Jane Hawking, during those years. She returned to Canada, to live on Salt Spring Island, in 1981, living on Old Scott Road for almost 27 years. She joined the Hiking Club and quickly made many friends on the island. She enjoyed her garden, her painting, hiking both on and off island, the Arts and especially music and keeping up to date on current affairs. Her living room table was always covered with a mass/mess (!) of periodicals, magazines, books and newspapers. She loved conversation and the sciences, and only a month before her death was asking about the latest findings on black holes. She enjoyed her computer to keep up to date with her friends both here and in England and had it brought in to Lady Minto Hospital to try to keep going. Alas that was not to be, and she died peacefully, her friends by her side, a smile on her face.

The family wishes to thank very sincerely all her friends who visited and supported her while she was in Lady Minto, as well as the health care team from the kitchen aides and servers to the nurses and physicians who were so kind to her. Thank you. You all made her stay much more bearable.

There will be a reception at Meadowbrook Seniors Residence, 121 Atkins Road, SSI

on Wednesday, January 6 between 2 and 4 pm

passed away suddenly on December 28th at 1:28PM. He leaves behind his partner Natasha, mother Janaki, sister Christine as well as his extended family and friends. Alex is and always will be a man of integrity, with a brilliant mind and a gift of humour with astute clarity. In the last last five months Alex was brave and remained positive to his last breath, embodying love over fear.

A celebration of life will be held on December 31st at the Lions Hall at 3:00 pm

with a private New Years celebration afterward.

He will be missed

more than words can say.

Dec 3, 1929 – Dec 27, 2009 (80 yrs)

Jeanne Benoit grew up in Southern Alberta in a family of nine children. After the war, she married Richard Anderson in 1949. Together, they raised three girls and a boy, in towns in Alberta and BC: Vulcan, Dawson Creek, Sylvan Lake, and Salt Spring Island, retiring to Langley in the 80s. Jeanne passed away at Fairhaven Nursing Home in Burnaby, where she had lived for the past year. She was known by everyone as a gentle-hearted, sociable, and quietly devout woman, and will be remembered as a devoted and loving mother and grandmother by her family. Her family and relatives will cherish our memories with her. Survived by a brother, Henry (Irene) of Ontario, her children Brenda (Geoff), Shelley and Brian (Masako), son-in-law Laurier, fourteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. She was predeceased by her husband Richard (2008), eldest daughter Arlene (1999), and seven siblings.

A Funeral Service was held at 1 pm Monday, January 4, 2010 at Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel, 4276 Hastings St Burnaby, BC.

In lieu of flowers, you are encouraged to donate to the Alzheimer’s Society of BC.

A Memorial Service will be scheduled for summer at Sylvan Lake Cemetery, Sylvan Lake, Alberta. You may offer the family condolences at www.bellburnaby.com.

(nee Estabrook)

February 9, 1924 – December 19, 2009

Passed away in the company of her daughter April at Lady Minto Hospital on Salt Spring Island, BC from the complications of Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick to Joe and Myra (Bacon) Estabrook. She is survived by sisters Betty Campbell and Pat Estabrook, children April (Gary Railer) Salt Spring Island, Chris (Sandy) San Diego CA, Barry (Joni) Manzanita OR, Nancy Houck (Bill) Waterford VA, grandchildren Ginger and Billy Houck. Predeceased by her parents, first husband Bill Steel (1991) and second husband Armando Fabbri (1988).

Five years after moving to the United States in 1962 Yvonne and Bill separated causing Yvonne to seek employment to support her three children still at home. During their “dancing years”, she and best friend Juanita Gomez took many cruises and trips. On one of these cruises, Yvonne met the ship’s engineer, Armando Fabbri. They had a long distance ship board romance which continued for many cruises after their marriage. In 1984, they retired to Armando’s native Italy. Following his death four years later, Yvonne then returned to Canada after a 26 year absence. From her Ottawa headquarters she continued a peripatetic life traveling to Europe, visiting her kids and grandkids in the United States and wintering in Victoria.

Yvonne moved to Victoria in 1997. She continued to travel and was an insatiable reader and writer with no day complete without getting outside until seven months ago when living with cancer required hospitalization. Moving to the Residential Care Unit of the Lady Minto Hospital for her last few months she was well looked after by the excellent staff of the ECU. She retained her positive attitude through life’s ups and downs to the end. A family memorial will be held in the spring with remains to be scattered at sea. In lieu of flowers any donations may be made to the Lady Minto Hospital Foundation 135 Crofton Rd, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 1T1.

March 15, 1952 – December 13, 2009

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of aRA (Rosalie) Miles. aRA passed away in her home sometime on the night of December 13, 2009 in 100 Mile House, BC. aRA is survived by her three children: Tamu, Max and Ola, her mother Sarah, her sister Ruth, her brother Paul and her grandchildren Dustin and Jenna. aRA grew up in Alberta but found herself on the coast in her late teens. Salt Spring has been her home, on and off, for the last 35 years. The people and the land of Salt Spring had a deep impact on who aRA saw herself to be, as well as her visions and dreams for the world. aRA did many things in her life, everything from fishing on seine boats to following spirit in the desert. She had a deep love of life and for the earth and was able to see the core of each person she encountered. aRA believed in the potential of humanity and hoped someday to see that potential expressed. Now she will be watching from the other side. We love you aRA and will never forget your beauty, love and the fire that burned within you.