Rosamond Mary Hardy

Our Matriarch of five generations has left us. Her four children: Iona (Campagnolo), Harold (Lynn), Marion (Mimi Mark) and John (Margie) and their families provided comfort to our Mother in her final days. Rosamond was the widow of Kenneth Hardy who predeceased her in 1989. Both were ‘Islanders”, living on Galiano Island until 1940, when they moved to North Pacific Cannery, an ABC Packing Company Salmon Cannery on the Skeena River. Later, they lived in Prince Rupert and Victoria. Rosamond (Rossy) was a long serving B. C. Provincial Government Employee, retiring from the Victoria Land Registry Office in 1979. Living independently until she was in her mid-nineties, Rosamond called Victoria and Steveston home before moving to the Comox Valley to share her final years with family.

Rosamond was the first-born of seven children to Finlay and Ethel Murcheson, who had settled on Galiano in the late 19th century. Sister Jean Streeter survives her siblings Rosamond, Finlay, Angus, Colin, Dorothy and Gordon. In addition to her four children, Rosamond leaves six grandchildren and a number of great and great-great grandchildren. All of who were regularly remembered on their birthdays with small money gifts and supplied with genealogical information so that as Rosamond said: “When cousins meet, they must know one and other”. Her many descendants are joined in respect, admiration and sadness at the loss of our own true ‘Lady’.

Missed and loved by her large family, but in accordance with her wishes there will be no funeral services. Cremation will be followed by a family inurnment at Hatley Gardens Victoria. If desired, Rosamond directed that contributions be provided to the SPCA in memory of the many pets that she and ‘Kenny’ enjoyed throughout their lives.