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Remembering Betty
Betty Boyle, beloved wife of the late Willard Sterling Boyle, died on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, a week after her 99th birthday, at the Colchester East Hants Health Centre in Truro, Nova Scotia.
Betty was the daughter of Aileen LeBlanc Joyce and Alfred Leslie Joyce of Westmount, Quebec. She attended the Sacred Heart Convent and McGill University in Montreal. Betty spent the last thirteen years of her life at Parkland in Truro, Nova Scotia. Before that, she and Bill had made their home on Lazy Bay in Wallace, Nova Scotia, where their son David now lives.
Her family of origin, the Joyces, including her sister Isabel, spent every summer on Ile Leblanc at Lac Tremblant Nord in Quebec. The island remains in the family where they’ve been gathering every summer for over 120 years.
When Betty met Bill, they were 20 and 21 and WWII had just ended – a city girl and a boy from the bush. The trip to meet his parents who lived in a rustic cabin at a logging camp in Sanmaur, QC, required a train trip and a day long drive through thick mud on unclassified logging roads. Betty was not deterred. As a result, the “Bs” her parents-in-law, moved next door to Bill and Betty in Montreal while Bill finished his academic studies. During their 64 years of marriage, Bill and Betty learned from each other, took care of each other and their growing family. Betty brought her elegance and a love of the arts, a nurturing nature, and Bill, a physicist, brought a sense of adventure, curiosity about the world and a playful sense of humour. Together, after raising four children, they settled in Wallace, Nova Scotia, Bill’s birthplace. Their time there was punctuated with trips all over the world, including a trip to Stockholm in 2009 where they dined with the king and queen of Sweden to celebrate Bill’s Nobel Prize. By then they were 84 and 85.
Bill’s career took them to the US – New Jersey and Washington, DC – where Betty always maintained and developed her interest in art. Her work evolved from childhood cartoon strips to bold expressionist landscapes. In New Jersey, she worked with the Summit Art Association as an artist and as a writer, and while in Wallace she and Bill were instrumental in starting the Fraser Art Gallery in Tatamagouche.
Betty and Bill raised four children: The late Robert Boyle and his late wife Barbara, of London, England; Cynthia Russell (Phillip Paull) of Montreal and Montpelier, VT; David Boyle (the late Margaret) of Wallace, Nova Scotia; Pamela Boyle (Malcolm Hamilton) of Ottawa, Ontario.
She had ten grandchildren: Alex Boyle (Felicity) of Bristol, England; Ariadne Ward (Chris) of London, England; Meredith Schmidt (Colin) of Lumsden, Saskatchewan; Kate Boyle (Matt Gionet) of Toronto; David Russell (Ariel) of Portland, Oregon; Laura Boyle (Matt Maaskant) of Goderich, Ontario; Max Boyle (Laura Rivère) of Vancouver, BC; Dawson Hamilton (Laura Langford) of Ottawa, Ont; Sophie Hamilton (Cameron Schallenberg) of Ottawa, Ont; Will Hamilton of Ottawa, Ontario.
There are fifteen great grandchildren: Benjamin B., Penelope, Phoebe, Delphi, Ryker, Griffin, Maeve, Gavin, Charlie, Benjamin R., Isla, Noah, Wesley, Georgia and Delilah.
A cluster of birches in her memory will be planted in Nova Scotia. Many of Betty’s paintings feature a similar group. Every summer at the family island, for most of her life, she would look at four birches as she washed (and a child or grandchild dried) the dishes while they chatted and sang together.
She will be remembered with great love and gratitude for showing us how to “always do your very best” and if you’re feeling down, “look around and see what you can do to put some sunshine into someone else’s day.” It works! Try it.
A celebration of life will be held for the family and close friends at a later date. Arrangements are under the care and direction of Coulter’s Funeral Home, Tatamagouche.

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