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Susan Healy
The following message has been circulated on Canadian and American lists.
Apologies if you have already seen it.
Even without meeting Hugh Taylor, list members will be sure to know him and
his influence through the festschrift 'The archival imagination: essays in
honour of Hugh A. Taylor', 1992 and his own 'Imagining Archives: essays and
reflections by Hugh A. Taylor', 2003
>
> Dear archival colleagues,
>
> Daphne Taylor has asked me to circulate her announcement of Hugh's
> death to his archival colleagues, who meant so much to Hugh throughout
> his life.
>
>
> My dear husband, Hugh A. Taylor, died peacefully in his sleep in the
> very early morning of September 11th. I and our daughter Ruth had
> spent most of Friday and all day Saturday with him, and he responded
> as best he could. Hugh has suffered from vascular dementia over the
> past few years, and since February has been lovingly cared for in the
> Baptist Central Care Home here in Victoria. The staff respected him
> as a distinguished gentleman.
>
> Hugh has been a very loving and gentle husband and father to his
> family, and a wise and loyal friend and colleague to all who knew
him.
> Apart from his family, Hugh's life was dedicated to the archival
> world, as you all know. He found profound satisfaction in his work,
> both as a colleague and a teacher, and, of course, in his thinking
> and writing. I told him yet again on Saturday how "His Book," so
> expertly edited by Terry and Gordon, is his long-lasting legacy to
> archivaria worldwide.
>
> I would like to thank you all, and especially Tom Nesmith, for the
> Moment of Quiet Reflection after Tom's comments at the last ACA
> meeting in Saskatoon. Very soon after that event Hugh became less
> resistive with the staff in the care home and started to cooperate
> with them. Prayer, in its many forms, is a mysterious and wonderful
thing.
>
> Hugh's Celebration of Life Service will be held on Friday September
> 16th at 3:00 pm, at St. George's Anglican Church, 3909 St. George's
> Lane, in Victoria (opposite Maynard Park in Cadboro Bay). We are
> asking for any donations in his memory to be given to Vision 2020, a
> capital fund for the building of a new St. George's church beside the
> original church of 1941, and the present one built in 1956. The new
> church building will represent the past, the present and the future
> -- which is what our dear Hugh stood for all his life.
>
> Thank you all for being part of Hugh's distinguished life.
>
> Daphne M. Taylor
> 250-477-7437
>
> Donations may mailed to:
> Vision 2020 c/o St. George's Anglican Church
> 3909 St. George's Lane
> Victoria, BC V8N 4E3
> --
>
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