LINTHORNE, Leah Adelaide (nee Himmelman) - (1915 - 2020) - Passed peacefully in her own home in Kingston, Ontario, Friday, December 18, 2020.
Descended from German settlers who arrived in Halifax, N.S. 1754 on the Gale, Leah was born November 4, 1915 in Bayport (now Middle South), Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
Third daughter of Charles Norman Himmelman and Ivy Mae Winters, she was predeceased by her siblings Lyola (Jack Tobin), Vera (Gordon Culp), Charles (Mary), Norman, Pearle (George Ireland), and by her husband of 67+ years Harold Thomas Linthorne (1913-2010).
Longtime residents of Lakeview (Mississauga), 1947-2007 when they moved to Kingston to be close to their daughter Sandra (Philippe) Baille and their grandsons Jean-Paul (Montse Cervera-Escofet) and Marc-Andre (Jessica Fox). Their son Gary (Lynne Ware) lives in West LaHave, N.S. and their sons Cory (Katia Flors) in Nicaragua and Shane (Deanne) in Fergus, Ontario.
She is survived also by her great-grandchildren Liam and Emma-Grace Linthorne, Mateo Linthorne-Flors, Vinyet and Heura Baille-Cervera and Serenity and Arya Fox.
The family wishes to thank Dr. Sharma and all the technicians at Hotel Dieu Eye Clinic and especially Stacey, Sandra “Abby”, and Linda of KDHS, whose loving care allowed her to remain in her home according to her wishes. For attentive palliative care we thank these same 3 wonderful women and nurse Chelsea of CBI.
Nanny was a caregiver all her life, a fiercely independent and sometimes stubborn woman whose family always came first. We thank her for 105 years of love.
Arrangements entrusted with Skinner and Middlebrook funeral home, Mississauga. Private family interment at Glendale Memorial Gardens, Etobicoke.
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