1938-2017
Allen Selby
1938-2017
After several years of suffering from Severe Vascular
Dementia, Allen Selby of Fredericton, passed away at Fredericton
Hospice surrounded by friends and family. He was 79.
A teacher by profession, he began his career in Saint John at
Simonds Regional High School in 1957 and then Saint John Vocational
School. In 1966 he joined the Faculty at Teachers College,
Fredericton which later became the University of New Brunswick,
Faculty of Education. His work as a professor of Speech and Drama
spanned twenty-four years until his retirement in 1990.
He encouraged the performing arts in classrooms and on stage
and was the founder of UNB’s d’Avray Hall Noontime Series,
Chairman of Fredericton’s Onstage Series at the Playhouse
and a panel member of the Canada Council Touring Office. He was a
board member of the Canadian Youth and Child Drama Association as well
as the New Brunswick Drama League.
He was a long time supporter of the Fredericton SPCA and the
Beaverbrook Art Gallery and the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum
and its community.
After completing undergraduate degrees at the University of
New Brunswick, he was awarded a Beaverbrook Teachers Overseas
Scholarship, attending the University Of London Institute Of
Education. He later completed his graduate training at the University
of Missouri in Columbia.
In his private life he was an avid theatre, opera and concert
goer, a lifetime collector and appraiser of antiques and was
frequently involved as advocate for issues of public
equality.
He is survived by his husband of 44 years, Stephen Carter of
Fredericton, a half brother Robert Selby of Saint John, his dearly
loved sister-in-law Anne Focsaneanu of Ottawa, friends too numerous to
mention and several inlaws and three loving Goddaughters. He was
pre-deceased by his sister Anne Selby (1986) and his mother Rachel
(Columbus) Selby. (1982)
The funeral service will be held at Brenans Funeral Home, 111
Paradise Row, Saint John, and N.B. on Wednesday November 1, 2017 at
2pm. Interment will follow immediately in the Shaarei Zedek section of
Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John, N.B. For those who wish, donations to
the Fredericton SPCA or the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum, Saint
John N.B. would be appreciated. Online condolences may be made at
www.brenansfh.com. Thank you to those who showed kindness and
compassion towards him and looked after him during his final journey,
especially Tracey Mann, Stacy McLeod and Eva Morton from Bayshore
Homecare.
For those who wish to pay their respect during the week,
Shiva, a period of mourning, will be observed at the family home, 202
Inglewood Drive, Fredericton beginning after burial, where friends
will be welcomed any time after 11am each day. Shiva will not be
observed from sundown Friday to Sundown Saturday.
www.brenansfh.com

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Death notice for the town of: Saint John, Province: Nouveau-Brunswick

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