BROWN, Marilyn Goodman - Beloved wife, mother, grand-, great- and great-great-grandmother, passed away peacefully on April 29, 2021 at home at age 95.
The cause of death was pancreatic cancer.
She is survived by two large and very loving families: in the U.S., daughters, Marsha (Jerry) Kaplan of Belfast, Maine and Carol (Kevin) Riley of Centerville, Mass., grandsons Matthew and Justin (Tram) Riley, and great- granddaughters McKenna and Samantha Riley.
In Toronto, which happily became her second home with her long marriage to late husband Tom Brown, she is survived by daughters Joyce Eisen and Fern Lebo (Alan Brudner), grandchildren Lewis, Mark (Ruth), Mitchell (Lynnette), and Paul (Aviva) Eisen, Pam (Shawn) Goldfarb, and Bram (Simon Payn), Matthew (Pam Block) and Jay (Monique DeJong) Lebo; 15 great- grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren. She spearheaded a dynasty!
She was pre-deceased by her husband and her grandson Adam Riley.
Marilyn was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Joseph and Laura Goodman, and grew up in Boston.
After raising a family in Connecticut and retiring to Florida, she moved to Toronto, which she loved, in 1978.
She was a woman of valor and of marvelous talents--a great cook and baker, a fabulous knitter, a formidable bridge player (she played with several of her partners for more than 50 years!), she did crossword puzzles in ink, rarely lost at Scrabble, loved celebrating the million talents of her extended family, and especially loved seeing her family grow. She was smart, generous, loyal, uncomplaining through illness or loss, strong, capable and independent.
If you asked her, and even if you did not ask, she would tell you that she had had a wonderful life.
She will be remembered with love and very greatly missed.
Arrangements with Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel. The funeral will be live-streamed at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, May 2. Shiva will be observed by Zoom link on Monday evening, May 3 at 8 pm.
If you wish to remember Marilyn with a charitable gift, please consider Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care 416-586-4800 or the Canadian Cancer Society.
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