Tuesday, August 17, 2021
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l met Isabelle as a young student at Brandon College in 1949-50. I visited from my home near Ninga, Manitoba, on Saturdays, eating noon meals in the Clark Hall Dining Room. Meals were offered family style, and I often sat at the table where Isabelle acted as hostess. She was kind, but also good fun, quoting lines from a well-stocked memory of verse and story. After 1961 I got to know her while I was a junior faculty member at Brandon College, later University; and after I married, she acted as a generous hostess again, this time at her apartment at 13th and Lorne.
A Saskatchewan girl, she grew and prospered at the University of Saskatchewan, completed a doctorate, and took on important responsibilities. Her special interest in Canadian music yielded a body of work that will be part of her lasting legacy. I was one of those whose mailbox was visited at least once a year with a lively account of her life during that year.
I offer my sympathies to her family and to her many friends. I feel blessed to have known her.
Lawrence Jones, DMA, Prof emeritus, Brandon University.
