Mary Christine Pritchard March 1, 1960 - November 19, 2003 It is with deep sadness that the family and friends of Mary Pritchard announce her passing, after a courageous battle with cancer, on November 19, 2003, peacefully, surrounded by family and friends, at the Toronto Grace Hospital. Mary shared her profound caring and love, strength of spirit, and radiant smile with all around her until the very end, leaving her family and friends feeling blessed and privileged to have shared in her journey.
Special thanks to the staff at the Toronto Grace Hospital Palliative Care Unit, Princess Margaret Hospital Palliative Care Unit, & Trinity Home Hospice, as well as to Mary's colleagues in Training in Power, for their efforts to keep Mary comfortable and her spirits high. Family and friends will gather on Thursday, November 27, 2003 between 3:00 and 5:00 pm Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home at 467 Sherbourne St., where a Celebration of Mary's life will take place at 5:00 pm. Reception to follow For more information, please contact 647. 221.6328 In addition, Mary's family, friends, co-workers & colleagues will honour her many contributions to the Toronto women's community, and her over 10 years of dedicated work on behalf of women and children survivors of abuse, on Saturday, November 29th at 2 pm at the Cecil Street Community Center, 58 Cecil Street (College and Spadina). Donations may be made in Mary's memory to Nellie's Shelter for Women, 970 Queen St. East, P.O. Box 98118, Toronto, Ontario M4M 1J0 and/or the Assaulted Women's Help Line, P.O. Box 369, Station B, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2W2 Remembrances, condolences, and memories of Mary may be sent via e-mail to memoriesofmaryp@hotmail.com

Soaring High

The poem When Tomorrow Never Comes

Christina Rosetti's poem Remember Me When I'm Gone

A man by the name of Albert Richards spent over forty years experimenting with an art form called floral radiographs. "Floral radiographs literally provide one with a third eye with which to see and appreciate the beauty in the secret garden of flowers. With a rose, the nearest petal hides from our view all of the other petals and structures that lie beyond it, that so much of the beauty of the blossom is hidden. With the penetrating power of the X ray, floral radiographs reveal all the details of the successive layers of petals and other structures. No chemicals are introduced into the flower nor is it harmed by the small exposure to X rays." The editor of the Smithsonian Magazine wrote: "Albert G. Richards, a teacher of dental radiography, had focused his x-ray machine not on teeth, but on blossoms, thus revealing the startling inner beauty of familiar flowers."

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