Community activist.
Born at Toronto, Ontario on 30 December 1920, daughter of Helen Elisabeth Cockshutt and John Joseph Gibbons, he graduating from Branksome Hall in 1938, she went to a school in Paris, France. Rumours of the impending Second World War brought her home and she enrolled at the University of Toronto.
On 27 December 1941, she married Robert DuVal Guy at Toronto and they moved to Winnipeg where they subsequently had a daughter and three sons. She became active in the community, as a member of Knox United Church and as a founding member in 1948 of the Volunteer Committee at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. She was also involved with the Victorian Order of Nurses, John Howard and Elizabeth Fry Society, and the Junior League (President, 1954-1955).
She died at Winnipeg on 16 October 2022.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 22 October 2022.
We thank Catherine Collins for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 December 2022
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