Edith Jean (Beatty) O'Brian (1919 - 2008)

Born 5 Oct 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Peter Geoffrey St George O'Brian — married Dec 1941 in Westminster, Middlesex, England

Died 1 Jul 2008 at age 88 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Edie grew up in Toronto on Cottingham Street and Ava Crescent, the third daughter of lawyer Percy Beatty (Fraser & Beatty) and Marjorie Schreiber. She attended Bishop Strachan School and Hatfield Hall and spent summers at Nares Inlet, Georgian Bay, where she first met her husband Peter in 1936. During World War II, she sailed to England to join 'Pete', who was flying in the R.A.F., Fighter Command, and they were married in London at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in December, 1941, returning to Toronto in 1959. During the War she served with the Red Cross. She later volunteered for many years with the IODE at Dixon Hall in Toronto. She delighted in her family life, her dogs, Chelsea, Hollywood and Marley, long country walks and blueberry picking by canoe in the Georgian Bay. She was fiercely loyal and supportive to those she loved, and always sided with the 'underdog'.

Sources

• Obituary[1]

• Find A Grave Memorial #61082843[2]