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Elizabeth A. BURRIDGE
July 20, 1928 - October 27, 2022
BORN
July 20, 1928
DIED
October 27, 2022
Elizabeth BURRIDGE Obituary
Elizabeth Ann Burridge, nee Jenkins
Betty was a devoted wife to Tony for nearly 70 years, a mother to three children, Wendy, Katharine and Davis, grandmother to five and great- grandmother to nine, scattered across Alberta, Australia and Salt Spring Island.
Betty was born in Vancouver and spent many childhood summers on Galiano, Gossip and Salt Spring Islands. Her family moved to Ottawa during WW2. She met Tony, a childhood friend of her brother's, when he visited Ottawa one university summer holiday. They married in 1951.
She was an elementary school teacher and never lost her love of children and learning, which continued on Salt Spring with her long commitment to the library and the Arts in Schools program.
Tony's career as an RCAF officer meant many moves across Canada, Colorado and France. Betty particularly loved their time in France as they travelled widely, became fluent in French and made many life-long friends.
Her love of horses began when she was about two, and finally when they lived in Colorado she was finally able to own a horse of her own
While in Colorado she and Tony began to build a ten-metre sloop, which was finished in the backyard in Scarborough, launched at Trenton, and for a maiden voyage, sailed down the St Lawrence to Shediac, NB, complete with three children, two dogs and two guinea pigs. (The horse, who also traveled from Colorado to Toronto to Nova Scotia, was trailered separately.)
For three years home was an Annapolis Valley farm, where another four horses, a couple of dogs and a cat were added to the family.
On Tony's transfer to Halifax they, with son Davis started building Takuli, a 13m cutter, to fulfill a lifelong ambition of ocean sailing. In 1976 the three of them, with another crew member, two dogs and a cat, set sail for the Caribbean, then through the Panama Canal, to the Galápagos Islands, and across the Pacific to Hawaii, before eventually arriving on Salt Spring. While living on the boat they began to build their house on Sunset Drive, where Betty established a beautiful garden. For her 80th birthday they started e-building a Nordic tug to continue exploring the Gulf Islands.
One great source of pride for Betty was her success in the Baking Category at the Salt Spring Fall Fair. She routinely took home trophies and ribbons in many categories, right up until the last Fair before Covid shut it down for a couple of years.
Betty was a committed dog lover, and was never long without a dog, from her childhood Scotty, Wendy to her last little Missy, now settled happily with daughter Katharine.
Betty maintained her sharp wit and enquiring mind until the end, and died peacefully at home with her children and dog at her side, with the assistance of MAiD and Dr. Holly Slakov. She is greatly missed.
Betty was a devoted wife to Tony for nearly 70 years, a mother to three children, Wendy, Katharine and Davis, grandmother to five and great- grandmother to nine, scattered across Alberta, Australia and Salt Spring Island.
Betty was born in Vancouver and spent many childhood summers on Galiano, Gossip and Salt Spring Islands. Her family moved to Ottawa during WW2. She met Tony, a childhood friend of her brother's, when he visited Ottawa one university summer holiday. They married in 1951.
She was an elementary school teacher and never lost her love of children and learning, which continued on Salt Spring with her long commitment to the library and the Arts in Schools program.
Tony's career as an RCAF officer meant many moves across Canada, Colorado and France. Betty particularly loved their time in France as they travelled widely, became fluent in French and made many life-long friends.
Her love of horses began when she was about two, and finally when they lived in Colorado she was finally able to own a horse of her own
While in Colorado she and Tony began to build a ten-metre sloop, which was finished in the backyard in Scarborough, launched at Trenton, and for a maiden voyage, sailed down the St Lawrence to Shediac, NB, complete with three children, two dogs and two guinea pigs. (The horse, who also traveled from Colorado to Toronto to Nova Scotia, was trailered separately.)
For three years home was an Annapolis Valley farm, where another four horses, a couple of dogs and a cat were added to the family.
On Tony's transfer to Halifax they, with son Davis started building Takuli, a 13m cutter, to fulfill a lifelong ambition of ocean sailing. In 1976 the three of them, with another crew member, two dogs and a cat, set sail for the Caribbean, then through the Panama Canal, to the Galápagos Islands, and across the Pacific to Hawaii, before eventually arriving on Salt Spring. While living on the boat they began to build their house on Sunset Drive, where Betty established a beautiful garden. For her 80th birthday they started e-building a Nordic tug to continue exploring the Gulf Islands.
One great source of pride for Betty was her success in the Baking Category at the Salt Spring Fall Fair. She routinely took home trophies and ribbons in many categories, right up until the last Fair before Covid shut it down for a couple of years.
Betty was a committed dog lover, and was never long without a dog, from her childhood Scotty, Wendy to her last little Missy, now settled happily with daughter Katharine.
Betty maintained her sharp wit and enquiring mind until the end, and died peacefully at home with her children and dog at her side, with the assistance of MAiD and Dr. Holly Slakov. She is greatly missed.
Published by The Times Colonist from Nov. 15 to Nov. 17, 2022.