OBITUARY OF JUNE CRAWFORD
June Linda Crawford passed away on April 12th. She was diagnosed in early 2016 with an unclear mixture of dementias, but especially Parkinson’s Disease. After years of care at home in Pelham, June was admitted to Royal Rose Place in Welland, a long-term care home. Shortly afterward, her ability to swallow ceased, and she passed peacefully with her husband at her side.
June was the daughter of Berry and Evelyn Lynds and was raised in and around Truro, Nova Scotia. From childhood she demonstrated an unusual gift for singing and was a frequent church soloist. She attended Mount Allison University (Class of ’62) where she studied music and English and became an outstanding coloratura soprano. It was in 1960 at Mt. A that she met her future husband Tom who later moved to Toronto to complete his studies. So June switched to NS Teacher’s college and became a teacher, then moved to Toronto to be with Tom. She married Tom in 1963 and then moved to Oakville, where her son Stephen was born.
In 1966 June and family moved to Ottawa where daughters Sandra and Heather were born. They lived in the Ottawa area for 35 years, not including a year in Kitchener and 3 years in Bermuda. After the kids were in school June became a part-time real estate agent and a part-time singer in various Ottawa musical groups, especially the “Plus 6 In Song” group of the 1980s. She was a soloist with the Glebe United Church Choir, sang at many weddings and funerals and old folks homes and once in the National Arts Center. In 2004 the couple moved from Ottawa to Fonthill to be closer to their children and grandchildren in the Toronto area.
In 2007 June and Tom became snowbirds and started wintering in Florida, where she loved to sit in the lanai of their house there and read novels and listen to the birds and breezes through the trees in the backyard. Throughout their marriage of almost 59 years June was the principal organizer and orchestrator of the couple’s social and family life. She will be long remembered for her sharp wit, her loving heart, her poetry, her singing, her perfect pitch and ability to sight-read even difficult music without accompaniment, her decorating, homemaking, sewing, and crocheting skills, her early rising, her intuitive know-how and intensity at anything she did, and of course her skills at Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble. She was a great wife, a great mother, and a great grandma.
June is survived by her sister Shirley, her husband Tom, her children Stephen, Sandra, and Heather, her grandchildren Jessica, Haley, and Ella, and her children’s partners Jo (Nielsen) and John Martino.
In keeping with June’s wishes cremation has taken place and a celebration of June’s life will be held at a later time after Covid risks are minimal. Your condolences may be shared online at www.pelhamfuneralhome.ca.
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Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of June Linda Crawford Lynds Tuesday April 12th 2022..
Death notice for the town of: FONTHILL, Province: Ontario