Obituary of Alice MacLeod

Alice MacLeod nee Woodward died peacefully in Bradford Valley Care Community on September 9, 2019.  She celebrated her 100th birthday on June 6th.  

Born in Levinshulme Manchester, Alice known as Billie to her family, well knew Blake’s dark satanic mills from his poem Jerusalem. The hymn that sets that poem to music was one of her favorites.  She had a happy childhood spending most of it as the adored youngest child in a large family.  

One day in early 1941, her cousin, Ken MacLeod, a handsome Canadian airman, came to call on his auntie and fell in love with his cousin.  They were married on June 19, 1943 and honeymooned in Edinburgh Scotland near where Ken was working on a secret technical team developing additional applications for the new British secret weapon, radar.  We like to think that our father’s work kept Billie safe as she traversed the Atlantic in late Spring 1944 on the first ship of English war brides headed to Canada. 

At the Wars End Billie worked at the Bank of Montreal while Ken completed his mining engineering degree at the University of Toronto. The couple moved to Sudbury in 1949 where two children were born, David and Kendra.  They survive her along with her grandson Nicholas Sereda. Kens career took the family to Montreal, New York City and Toronto where Billie made her home for nearly 60 years. 

Billie loved following the Royal Family and watching English television serials such as Lovejoy, Inspector Morse, and Foyle’s War.   There will be a private ceremony of internment at St John’s York Mills where her ashes will be laid to rest beside her beloved husband Ken who predeceased  her in 1997.  The family encourages donations in her memory to the Red Cross