Tragically , this Sunday, while returning from a visit to my dad for fathers day, my mother and brother were involved in a violent head on collision, which took my mothers life instantly and left my brother severely injured. I’m not posting for the sadness of it all, but to just tell you a bit about my mom.
This will help and by taking a minute or so to read this , you’re helping me cope, and for that I thank you all to no end,
, my virtual friends.
My mother was born June 8, 1934 Mary June Frost in Edmonton , Alberta, Canada. She had a jawbone defect that gave her a speech impediment, but that never stopped her from talking up a storm J Years of surgery fixed that and she went on to lead the debate team.
Not much could stop her.
During WW2, she was a platform girl. These were school kids who passed out chocolate and cigarettes to soldiers on trains , bound for the horrors of war. She often told me, that, that was one of the tasks she was most proud of.
She paid her way into nursing college by winning art contests, she was a great artist. She kept herself in college by picking tobacco. After graduating she came to Montreal and started working at Ste.Mary’s Hospital, where she worked for 45 years.
Her achievements at that hospital are too numerous to mention here, but I’m most proud of her returning to McGill University at 45, to get a degree in hospital management. Years later McGill would award her a fellowship. She really was a story of working your way to the top. She retired a few years ago as head of 5 dept.s and assistant nursing director, quite good for a small prairie girl.
She will be dearly missed by many.
Bt this shouldn’t be all sad, I will celebrate her life, while mourning the loss. So on that note, some of her art work is below, sorry for the quality of the pics, I am a bit shaky.
In closing I want to thank you for taking the time to know my mom, you would’ve liked her, she had quite the sense of humour . You’ve helped me by reading this, thank you all so much, I mean that, .
Maybe do me one more favour, give your moms a call and say hi , will ya., thanks again.
Andrew
