JEAN MARGARET CROWE

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JEAN MARGARET CROWE Died peacefully on October 30, 2006, at the nursing home, Kensington Gardens in Toronto, ON, surrounded by those who loved her. Born April 11, 1918 in Kamsack, SK to Nell (Coppin) and Franklin Stratton Partridge. Predeceased by her first husband, William Paterson (1917 - 1944); by her second husband, Harry Sherman Crowe (1921 - 1981) and by her only brother, Henry (Harry) Albert Partridge (1920 - 1943). Survived by daughter, Moira Bendahan, husband Mark and their two sons, Joshua and Zachary of Richmond Hill, ON; by daughter Tanis Crowe of Picton, ON; by son Michael Crowe, his wife Susan and their three children, Silas, Finn and Faron on Hornby Island, BC; and by her partner of 23 years, Albert Tucker of Toronto, ON. She was a loving mother, grandmother, partner and friend. By vocation a public-health nurse who retired from Doctors' Hospital in Toronto, ON in 1983, Jean's interests lay most vitally in writing and publishing essays about the First and Second World Wars; in her lifelong commitment first to the CCF and then to the New Democratic Party; and in sustaining her many friendships in politics, journalism and academe. Those who wish to remember her in an informal gathering are invited to a remembrance service that will be held in the Senior Common Room at Glendon College, 2275 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON on Sunday afternoon, November 12 from 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Donations in her name may be sent to the nursing home, Kensington Gardens at 25 Brunswick Ave. in Toronto, ON.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Nov 04, 2006