Barb and Cheri Holman are saddened to announce that our mother, TRISH HOLMAN, died of Multiple Myeloma on Sunday, May 12, 2019 at the Dorothy Ley Hospice in Etobicoke Ontario.

Trish was born January 4, 1934 to Margret and Gerald Malaher, grew up in rural Manitoba and then moved to Winnipeg where she became a public school teacher after graduating from the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba. After having two children, she realized the need for a nursery school, and with two others, owned and ran St. Peter’s Nursery School at Grant Avenue.

The family moved to Toronto where Trish became a Junior Kindergarten teacher with the Etobicoke Board of Education. The biggest advantage of being a teacher was that she could spend the summers at West Hawk Lake Manitoba in the cottage she and her husband David Holman built with her parents in 1957. Trish was very involved with: Girl Guides, at age 16 she was one of two guides representing Canada at “Our Chalet” in Switzerland; Couples Club and English conversation at the Church; The Etobicoke Osteoporosis Support group, as president; organizing expat Winnipeggers and later community members in their biweekly volleyball games and get-togethers afterward; Winfal Seniors at West Hawk Lake, as president; The Horticultural Society, arranging flowers for competition; Basic Knits, a pattern company that specialized in sewing with knit fabrics; and continuing the community atmosphere she felt from her neighbours when she moved to Islington in 1969.

Trish was very much a documenter of both ongoing and past events. Because of this, we have a wonderful record of her, and our lives. You are invited to upload photos and videos and any condolence messages to this memorial website, to share what Trish meant to you and remember the times you had together.

There will be a Celebration of her Life at Islington United Church in Toronto on Friday May 17, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. You are welcome to visit in the church’s “Reception Room” starting at 10:30 a.m. and light refreshments will be served there, following the service. Trish’s ashes will be interred at the family plot at Elwood Cemetery when the family is in Winnipeg this summer. For a map and directions, click on the button labelled "View Funeral Details", below.

Instead of flowers, please consider making a donation to The Dorothy Ley Hospice, The South West Whiteshell Fire Department or a charity of your choice. For your convenience, you can reach websites for the hospice and the fire department (and many other charities) by clicking the "Donation" button, below.

The Dorothy Ley Hospice: Their loving and caring services are provided to anyone, free of charge. Trish went to a community day programme there every Wednesday for two years, before entering the hospice residence on Tuesday, May 6.

South West Whiteshell Fire Department: The main volunteer station is at “our lake”, West Hawk Lake, with a substation at Falcon Lake. They help protect our cottage, the cherished place for cross-generational and “east-meets-west” family gatherings over the years.