Lennie Ann Sturrock (née Price)

Sunrise: May 11, 1947, Vancouver, BC

Sunset: September 28, 2026, North Vancouver, BC

A proud fifth generation Canadian, Ann was born in the tough postwar period to a decommissioned RCAF airman and a war bride from Lancashire, England, and grew up the eldest of four siblings in Kerrisdale, Vancouver. After graduating from UBC, she pursued her passion for community building, becoming politically engaged, an accomplished public speaker, a tireless volunteer and indefatigable fundraiser. She got her start with the charitable efforts of the Junior League, and later served on the Ethics Committee at the BC Children’s Hospital and as the founding Chair of its Research Institute. Along the way, she was nominated three times for the YWCA’s Woman of Distinction Award.

Ann could rub along with people from all walks of life, and was just as happy leading a pack of Brownies for the Girl Guides of Canada or assisting teachers at an inner-city school as she was attending a luncheon with Margaret Trudeau at 24 Sussex Drive or consorting with the poobahs at the Clinton White House. She was lucky enough to indulge her love of travel, too, venturing into China and Russia before they had truly opened up to the West, and enjoying the splendours of lands as diverse as the Nile River basin and Churchill, Manitoba, or the Amazon rainforest and Dawson, Yukon. Her curiosity also extended into the realms of lifelong education, and she was an appreciative user of, and advocate for, the Knowledge Network, SFU’s Continuing Studies, and the courses offered at the West Vancouver public library. Even in the final days of her life, she could be spotted in a classroom, assiduously taking notes and querying the instructor on points of acute interest.

A survivor of leukemia, breast cancer, and a serious stroke, Ann was for decades beset by health calamities but remained unstoppable, and she was always particularly grateful for the miraculous efforts of Drs. Barnett and Nantel at the Bone Marrow Transplant Program of BC. She passed away at noon in the presence of desperately proud loved ones who were awed by her resolve to die at a time and place of her own choosing. Be at peace, Mum.