{"id":44429,"date":"2021-05-07T09:14:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T13:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=44429"},"modified":"2021-05-10T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:06:18","slug":"midgley-ann-maureen-bedford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/07\/midgley-ann-maureen-bedford\/","title":{"rendered":"MIDGLEY, Ann Maureen (Bedford)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ann passed away peacefully April 29, 2021, at the age of 74, following a brave and fiercely determined brief period in hospital.\u00a0 Ann is survived by her daughter Trixie Kennedy, son-in-law Troy and cherished grandson Rylan.\u00a0 Cremation has taken place.\u00a0 A memorial service will be held once current restrictions are lifted.\u00a0 Our heartfelt thanks to the nurses and physicians of 7C, the OR and the ICU at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, all who so willingly supported her through this piece of her journey.<\/p>\n

A special thank you to Dr. Dennis Jiang.<\/p>\n

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Ann was raised in Chapleau, Ontario (a railroad and logging town), by her mother Rita Bedford (a teacher\/principal).\u00a0 Their summers spent travelling by train to visit aunts, uncles and cousins east and west within Canada and routine trips to Toronto for various appointments and short trips.\u00a0 Shortly after finishing high school in northern Ontario, she ventured to the big city of Toronto to begin her adulting years.\u00a0 In the late 60’s, as a young twenty-something, she would become Mother and Wife.\u00a0 Ann’s early working years included various administrative roles of the time, a Switchboard Operator, Receptionist and Legal Secretary.\u00a0 She eventually left the city for suburban life in Bramalea, Ontario, living in the “G” section.<\/p>\n

As a young mother in Bramalea, she was active and social.\u00a0 She loved driving and racked up countless kilometers as her daughter’s dedicated transportation source to movies, roller skating, shopping, amusement parks, birthday parties, drive-ins, school dances, skiing, ice skating and to countless dance lessons, recitals and competitions.\u00a0 All of this she did, so lovingly and without complaint.\u00a0 Ann explored a few new interests living in the suburbs.\u00a0 Her love of the performing arts found her fulfilling various chorus roles with local theatre productions.\u00a0 She also tried and loved downhill skilling, but too soon preferring the less physical apres-ski activities.\u00a0 You could always count on Ann to be one of the early birds purchasing tickets to big theatre productions, coming to town, excited to share the experience with family or friends.\u00a0 Theatre tickets were a favorite of hers to give as gifts.<\/p>\n

She would find herself thirteen years later living in Nobleton, Ontario.\u00a0 Now working in the Career Service Centre of Humber College, she loved working in such a youthful, and constantly evolving environment, which likely contributed to her ongoing youthful energy supply.\u00a0 She spent 12 years working at the North Campus, following with the last 20 years at the Lakeshore Campus and likely never missed a President’s Breakfast.\u00a0 She developed some truly special and enduring friendships during her time at the college.\u00a0 “The Girls” despite their differences in age with Ann, continued to keep her spirit young and her slang current.<\/p>\n

Now Mom to a young twenty-something, she had more free time on her hands, embarking on her next big chapter, she allowed herself to explore her adventurous, even rebellious side.\u00a0 She had rediscovered a love of motorcycles (she had loved being a passenger in the early 70’s, before moving to settling into suburban life).\u00a0 New relationships for her during this time found her playing the role of “passenger” on a Harley Davidson from Toronto to Vermont, as well, various charity rides and pleasure trips across Toronto and Ontario.\u00a0 She loved the feeling of freedom being on the back of a motorcycle!<\/p>\n

Ann also explored outdoor camping and canoeing, even canoeing in the everglades of Florida, with the gators.\u00a0 Camping time, spent around Lake Simcoe and Parry Sound, Ontario, she enjoyed, wishing she had experienced it much sooner in life.\u00a0 Her daughter now married, and the addition of a son-in-law to the family, she was getting ready to try something new.\u00a0 Ann enjoyed the attraction of both summer and winter activities of the Grey Bruce region.\u00a0 With a tiny apartment in the city, she enjoyed a recreational property in the tiny village of Thornbury (Twinkleberry as she often referred to it).\u00a0 Thornberry provided a close commute retreat from the city, a place to enjoy family and friends.\u00a0\u00a0 She even gave downhill skiing another try later in life, again preferring the apres-ski.<\/p>\n

The call for family would soon come.\u00a0 Ann shared a unique relationship with one of her Aunts, who lived a few doors away, and a strong presence of Ann’s formative years.\u00a0 While life changes and geographical distance could never diminish their unique bond, the time came for Mom to support her Aunt.\u00a0 Ann without hesitation selfishly gave of herself, and her time to ensure the last transitional steps for her aunt would be the best they could be.\u00a0 They enjoyed car trips north for her aunt’s reconnection with school chums of long ago, weekends away to simply enjoy each other’s company or that of their surroundings, they attended various theatre and musical productions and shared many a meal together.\u00a0 Most importantly they enjoyed quality time together.<\/p>\n

Ann worked right up until the age of 69 years old, retiring only five years ago.\u00a0 During retirement, she lovingly embraced her role as Granny to Rylan, one of the greatest roles in her life. Being bestowed with the honour of becoming Granny was a concept that snuck up on Ann (as it was a reminder of time’s passage and marked the days that had passed henceforth). If looking back now at the many hats worn in life, THIS was the one which truly fit, felt the most right, saw her looking her very best, and came most naturally to her.<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to one of the charities below:<\/p>\n

Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital https:\/\/www.haltonhealthcare.on.ca\/locations\/oakville-trafalgar-memorial-hospital<\/p>\n

Upper Credit Humane Society https:\/\/uppercredit.com\/<\/p>\n

Oakville Humane Society https:\/\/omhs.ca\/<\/p>\n

Burlington Humane Society https:\/\/burlingtonhumane.ca\/<\/p>\n

To send expressions of sympathy please visit www.jonesfuneralhome.co<\/p>\n

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Ann passed away peacefully April 29, 2021, at the age of 74, following a brave and fiercely determined brief period in hospital.\u00a0 Ann is survived by her daughter Trixie Kennedy, son-in-law Troy and cherished grandson Rylan.\u00a0 Cremation has taken place.\u00a0 A memorial service will be held once current restrictions are lifted.\u00a0 Our heartfelt thanks to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-obits"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 11:38:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44541,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44429\/revisions\/44541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}