VIVIAN MARION HILTON

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We will always miss Bid but are grateful she died peacefully in her sleep at home, at 100 years old. She said it was time for her to go so she did, with her mind and humour intact till the end. Her life was full of adventures and challenges and people that were dear to her.

Bid was one of four daughters of Arthur and Mabel Lord. She was born and raised in Souris where her dad taught her about kindness, generosity and compassion for others. This combined with her fiery nature made her a force to be reckoned with and a staunch ally and helper for those in need.

Bid fell in love in her 20's, and married Ross, a pilot stationed at the Army base in Shilo. They later moved to Ottawa with their 4 young children where Ross tragically died in a plane crash. After some time, their dear friend Bob and Bid married and the family moved to Africa for 2 years. They returned to Canada at a time when human rights were getting attention and spunky Bid rallied for equality. She had the ability to make things happen and effect change for people on both a personal and broader level.

Bid strongly valued both education and travel as tools for growth. She finished her University degree in her forties, while she worked as a highly respected and loved teacher and then vice-principal until she retired. Volunteer work followed and she initiated and participated in many charitable acts such as her church collecting clothes for homeless people and with some dear friends donating mitts and supplies to an inner-city school.

Limits from childhood polio did not deter Bid travelling globally with the family or Bob and friends until she was in her mid 80's. She visited Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Britain, Europe, the Caribbean, South America and had numerous other fun segues like France to try to learn French in her 60's and celebrating her 75th birthday white water rafting in BC. Locally she enjoyed their lakefront summer cottage at Victoria Beach.

The most precious thing in her life was the people in it, and her dogs. She cherished her family and friends and was delighted to meet new people and

hear their stories whether it was for a moment or a lifelong connection. She could make us laugh and think and inspire us. Bid had great ideas and solutions to almost any problem and her occasionally bossy but loving manner would install confidence and motivate us.

She believed in God and was happy she was Anglican and a member of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine. Work she did to help the homeless and those in need was an expression of gratitude for all this life had given her.

Bob died last December after their 60th anniversary so Bid has joined him and left behind dearly loved friends and sons Larry and wife Margaret, their son Robert and Maisey their great granddaughter, Blaine and his wife Yuna, Rodney and his wife Karen, their children Collin and Amy and great granddaughter Kaisley, their daughter Laura and dog Gus.

We will celebrate Bids life next spring, likely in May, with a service at St. Paul's Anglican church in Fort Garry, and then a party as lively as she was.

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