Mrs. Antonia Silcox died peacefully and without suffering on Friday, June 30th at Amica Erin Mills, in the company of her loving son and daughter, Mark and Mary. Toni Silcox was born in 1939 in Blackheath, UK and emigrated with her family to eastern Ontario in 1951. She received a BA from Queen's University and taught high school English until 1968. Her long and very happy marriage to Peter Silcox, a professor of Political Science at UofT, lasted from 1967 until his death in 2019. She loved novels, poetry, and the theater, and was known to all who met her for her kindness, patient sympathy, and generous sense of humor. She will be deeply missed by her children, her many friends, her brother Timothy Stephens, and her caregiver Carol Edison. A memorial service will be held at A Simple Alternative Funeral Centre (1535 South Gateway Road, Mississauga) on Monday, July 10th at 2PM. In lieu of flowers, donations in Toni's memory can be made to The Woodsworth College Students' Association - Antonia Silcox Scholarship in Criminology. Please contact Barbara Track at barbara.track@utoronto.ca or 416-978-4179.
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