in si de ha lto n. co m O ak vi lle B ea ve r | T hu rs da y, Ju ne 10 ,2 02 1 | 28 RYNBERK, Stephanie B November 26, 1997 - May 22, 2021 ------------------ Survived by her mother Pamela Spitzer (Kevin), her father David Rynberk (Line), brother Andrew and sister Emily. Loved by her grandparents, aunts and uncles and many cousins. She was a talented musician and had a natural ability to connect with animals Private ceremonies to be had by family following cremation. In lieu of flowers Donations to Start Me Up Niagara at www.startmeupniagara.ca or a charity of your choice would be appreciated. "A spirit released from earthly constraints is now free to soar beyond anything we can know" Please sign the Tribute Wall at www.CCBSC.ca WEBSTER, Wynne ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Peacefully after a short battle with cancer on May 31, 2021 at the Oakville Trafalger Memorial Hospital. Loving wife of Ronald. Dear mother of David and his wife Andrea. Predeceased by her son Steven. A family service has been held. Online condolences at www.koprivataylor.com After a long illness which she courageously met with inspir- ing faith, patience, and a joy that radiated through her glo- rious smiles, Mary Patricia Mur- phy died at three o'clock Friday afternoon. Pat was the beloved and devoted wife of the late Gerald Murphy; daughter of William Grammell and Mary Agnes (Mamie) McCartney; daughter-in-law of Mary Ellen and Patrick Murphy; mother to Terry and her husband Michael; grandmother to Sean and Ste- phen; sister to Phyllis and the late Albert Roy, Barbara and the late Don Molloy, and Elizabeth and Larry Smith; sister-in-law to Rose and the late Gordon Harding, Veronica Murphy, the late Aileen Murphy, as well as the late Nicholas, Fred, Francis, Leo, and Harold Murphy, and their spouses; and aunt to her many beloved nieces and neph- ews. Greatly loved by her many cousins, friends, and commu- nity, Pat selflessly devoted her entire life to loving God and everyone blessed to cross her path. A fifth-generation Oakvillian, she was born over the family men's wear store at 249 Lakeshore Road East on November 1, 1929, three days after Black Tuesday and, very appropriately, on the Feast of All Saints. She made lifelong friends at St. Mary's School and Oakville High School, after which she used her talent for math in an accounting career at Oakville's Bank of Commerce and as a bookkeeper for sev- eral GTA businesses. This did not stop her from continuing to help her parents with their store. She had enormous en- ergy and a fearlessness when it came to hard work; she de- voted every day to the service of others and, to paraphrase Proverbs, "her lamp did not go out at night." A devout Catholic, she was a faithful member and volunteer at St. Andrew's where she received all her sacraments and where her grandchildren were the seventh generation to receive theirs. As a young girl, she looked after the flowers and linens for the altars carved by her great-great grandfather. She was a stalwart member of parish groups including the choirs, where she met her hus- band, and the CWL (a member for over 60 years). She made candy and sandwiches for ev- erything from funerals to the parish's elaborate garden par- ties and Christmas bazaars. Most incredibly, for decades and on a daily basis, she visited shut-in parishioners, showing them great love through her companionship and delicious meals. Inspired by her faithful and charitable parents, Pat was extraordinarily generous, kind, and interested in everybody. She saw God in everyone from the birds she fed daily to the strangers in her midst. She be- friended everyone - from the grocery clerks and the staff at Tim's where she, a non-coffee drinker, bought daily coffees for her family, to those at her grandsons' favourite shops and restaurants where she bought never-ending treats. She never turned her back on anyone who was suffering and set aside everything to show encour- agement, listen with care, and bestow her love-filled smile. Anyone in need could count on refreshments at her door. Through everything, including times of great suffering, she radiated the goodness in her heart which burst with joy in the simplest of pleasures. She enjoyed the piano, and, with her beautiful voice, sang in church choirs from childhood onwards. After years of singing lullabies to her grandsons, she bought them a baby grand on which she lovingly supported their practicing, and then en- thusiastically supported them at every concert and musical theatre event in which they were involved. She generous- ly bought scores of tickets for family outings to concerts and musicals. A talented sketcher, she taught her grandchildren to appreciate beauty. In school, track and baseball were favour- ite sports, though cycling, skat- ing, swimming in Lake Ontario, and taking her sisters to fish for minnows in Oakville's creeks were well-loved pastimes. With her sisters and friends, she bowled and enthusiastically attended baseball and hockey games. She enjoyed playing tennis and golf with family, and croquet wickets and a badmin- ton net were regular features in the large garden she and Gerry tended so carefully. Long dis- tance travel largely eluded her, but as a superb driver she took the family on countless excur- sions to natural wonders and pilgrimages to shrines. Family was everything. Through her unceasing support, she helped her husband in his businesses and in his career as a senior ex- ecutive with American Motors Canada and later as a teacher at Sheridan, as well as made it possible for her daughter to continue her beloved teaching career through the extraordi- nary daily care of her grand- sons. Building memories for a lifetime, she and Gerry hosted holiday dinners and annual garden parties that brought together the whole family. She devoted her entire life to oth- ers, from raising her daugh- ter and grandsons to caring for the sick and suffering. She spent every day for close to a year at Princess Margaret when her mother was suffering from cancer, and drove two of her sisters-in-law to all their cancer appointments. On these hos- pital visits and others to nurs- ing homes, she was a dogged advocate for others: patients who were strangers to her and diagnosed as beyond help, she literally talked and loved back to life. With Gerry, she sup- ported her other sister-in-law and their six children through a time when her brother-in-law was ill, moving them to Toron- to where my parents found and furnished them a home and brought them groceries along with home-made soup and cakes every week for years through her brother-in-law's recovery. Pat also greatly sup- ported her sisters and sister- in-law in the tragic loss of their children and made many sacri- fices to support my father in his long-distance visits to his five brothers and his sister through their illnesses and deaths. After a series of small strokes cur- tailed the independence of this extraordinarily vibrant woman, she continued on with courage, grace, and dignity. Following these strokes, God gave us over a decade with her so she could try to show us how to live like her, selflessly and uncomplain- ingly despite suffering. Though less talkative, she continued to pray and sing old songs, and to the end, every word she spoke was loving. Blessed was she - meek, merciful, and pure in heart - for she hungered for righteousness and always worked to reconcile others to create peace. Pat can now rejoice and be glad in heav- en. The family thanks Acclaim Health for providing her with wonderful nurses and PSWs like Arminda, Vitali, Kim, Rose- mary, Donna, and many others; Dr. VanStraalen, and the staff at OTMH; and those who cheered her like PTs, driver Tony, stylist Emilio, and the caring staff of SENECA and Care-a-Van. We thank God for the miraculous gift of Pat's life, one in which she always put aside her own will and wishes to facilitate the growth and desires of everyone else, incomparably unselfish to the end when she opened her eyes to say farewell. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated once COVID restrictions are further lifted. MURPHY, Mary Patricia November 1, 1929 - June 4, 2021 Online condolences at www.koprivataylor.com OBITUARIES | REMEMBERING THE LIVES OF THOSE IN OUR COMMUNITY A wonderful person, friend and aide, one who was better God never made; a wonderful worker, so loyal and true, one in a million - that person was you. Just in your judgment, always right; honest and liberal, ever upright; loved by your friends and all whom you knew. Our wonderful friend - that person was you. The rolling stream of life rolls on. But still the vacant chair recalls the love, the voice, the smile of the one who once sat there. Gone is the face we loved so dear, silent is the voice we loved to hear. OBITUARIES