Avis de décès de Ruth-Catherine Coleman - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

OBITUARY RUTH CATHERINE COLEMAN HARDING October 9, 1930 January 24, 2008. Unexpectedly, after a brief illness, on January 24, 2008 at Cobourg General Hospital in Ontario. She is survived by her husband of fifty-five years, Michael Blythe Harding, her sisters Carol Colapinto and Anne Coleman, her brother Charles Coleman, her sons Frank (Marie-Christine), Eric (Christiane), and Michael (Katie), and her grandchildren Henri, Elizabeth, Robert and Lucas. Ruth was a gifted visionary painter who received a BFC with distinctions from McGill University, where she studied under Arthur Lismer and Lawren Harris. She was born to Jane Ireland and Charles Coleman in Bwanamkubwe, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1930, and in her long and colourful life lived in Alaska, Switzerland, British Guiana (now Guyana), Boston, Montreal and Kitimat - but her parents were from North Hatley, and that was her first home, though she and Michael retired to small town Ontario. She had been working hard on a memoir and had it almost finished. There will be a funeral at MacCoubrey Funeral Home, 30 King St. E, Cobourg on Wednesday afternoon at 3 pm, with visitation from 2 pm. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made by cheque to the Northumberland Services for Women. Condolences received at www.MacCoubrey.com . Published in the Montreal Gazette on 1/29/2008