Obituary of Barbara Mary Sage Langfeldt

LANGFELDT , Barbara Mary Sage(nee Jarman, formerly Holmes) Died peacefully in her 100th year on January 16, 2015. Predeceased by her husbands Hartley Holmes (1967) and Basil Langfeldt (1986) and her sister, Hilda Long, and brother, Bill Jarman. Proud and loving mother of Barbara Murray (John) and John Holmes (April); admired and supportive grandmother of Nicola Holmes (Dan), Jonathan Holmes (Amy), Ken Murray (Andrea), Martha Murray (Guy) and Ian Murray (Tiffany). Many happy memories will be shared with great grandchildren Oliver, Madeline, Benjamin, Jack, Tosh, Emma and Hartley. Barbara will also be greatly missed by her sister-in-law, Margaret Holmes, and fondly remembered by nieces Barbara Wedmore, Diana Long, Nancy Hardwick and Carol Lee. Special thanks to Fred Gaby, Jennie Dilig and Eliza Enriquez who added so much to her final years. A celebration of life will take place Friday, June 12, 2015, noon to 2:00, at the Badminton and Racquet Club, 25 St. Clair Avenue West. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Barbara always saw herself as a 'friendly Westerner'. Her warmth and interest in people were exhibited in an amazing ability to keep in touch with a widespread network of old friends while making new friends wherever she went. She inherited considerable athletic ability and a competitive spirit from her parents, Wallace Jarman (who toured the world with the British Lions) and Hilda Jarman (a golfer, curler and formidable bridge player). She showed her athletic talent early as a champion badminton player: when she won both provincial junior and senior titles in the same year, the entry rules were changed. As a graduate dietitian, she was especially proud of her work during the war when she worked with Florence Ignatieff overseeing the preparation of thousands of meals at the shell-filling plant now celebrated in ''Bomb Girls''. The same management skills were evident later in many years of volunteer work at St. Clement's Church. Her positive attitude, a lifelong devotion to exercise, and a healthy lifestyle (which included rum) enabled her to be a good golfer (York Downs, Lambton) and to play tennis well into her 90's at the Hillsboro Club and The Badminton and Racquet Club. If desired, donations to either the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation or the Doug Philpott Inner-City Children's Tennis Fund would be appreciated by the family.