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Posted Oct 20, 2023 | 3:56 PM by PattFH
It is with nice disappointment that the household of Myra Arline Link broadcasts her passing on Friday, October 13, 2023, on the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital.
Myra was born on September 19, 1937 to Phil & Regina Baker. Myra is survived by her beloved husband of 65 years Victor, son Terry (Dorothy), son Richard (David Moloney), and son-in-law Trevor James; she very sadly needed to say good bye to her daughter Jennifer James in August of this 12 months.
Myra was born and raised in Medicine Hat and lived her life within the metropolis. She grew up within the “flats”, and beloved hanging out together with her cousins, and the youngsters on fourth avenue and surrounding blocks. This is the place she met her finest pal Melinda Link (now Melinda Price) and Melinda’s brother Vic, whom she married.
Myra was a cheerleader in highschool and was Medicine Hat Teen Queen. She additionally labored as a courtroom reporter within the early 60s and as soon as her youngsters had been grown, she returned to work on the Medicine Hat College within the Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts departments. Her extremely organized nature was of nice assist to the artists, college students, and instructors who shared her passions.
She all the time took delight in her look, whether or not it was a brand new hair model or an outfit within the latest trend.
Her nice ardour was artwork: literature, music, and the visible arts. She’d all the time have the utmost variety of books on reserve on the library, and she or he was instrumental in getting many finest sellers into the Medicine Hat Library system. Myra had an encyclopedic reminiscence of all of the authors she had ever learn, and will simply let you know all of the books she’d learn by a selected creator.
While her contemporaries had been listening to rock ’n’ roll, she and her cousin Ken had been devoted jazzophiles, spending many afternoons listening to their favorite artists. She felt privileged to see a lot of them stay, together with Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Cleo Lane, Stan Getz, Shirley Bassey, Barbra Streisand and Diana Krall. [Have a listen to our playlist for Myra https://tinyurl.com/playlistforMyra.]
Her and Vic’s home was crammed with books, data, and delightful paintings together with images by Ansel Adams; prints by Picasso, the Group of Seven, and Ettore DeGrazi; and drawings by her favorite native artist, Jim Marshall.
She and Vic travelled to Mexico and Europe for Oldtimers’ Hockey tournaments, and to London to go to Jennifer and Trevor. Stories about her journey to New York with Melinda, and to Los Angeles to see Barbra Streisand, had been amongst her favorite reminiscences. Myra and Vic spent many winters in Arizona they usually additionally loved time on the household’s summer time cabin at Lake Newell.
Due to mobility points, Myra spent her previous few years at Cypress View and most lately River Ridge Senior Village, the place she knew everybody’s names, and was grateful for the care she obtained.
As per Myra’s request, there won’t be a proper service. In lieu of flowers, if you want to recollect Myra, a donation to the Medicine Hat Library could be acceptable. To go away a message of condolence you could go to www.pattisonfuneralhome.com.
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Date :
2023-10-13 -
Location :
Medicine Hat, Alberta
