Obituary: Cara Joy Hughes
Cara Joy Hughes, 1932 - 2021
Cara Joy died October 20, 2021. The following is based on some reminiscences she shared with a friend and neighbour.
Her Salt Spring neighbours over the last thirty years knew Cara Joy Hughes for her determined daily walks with one of a succession of equally determined dogs. She always took time to exchange a few words with us, but had we only known how remarkable her life and achievements were, what conversations we might have had! The anthropologist Clifford Geertz wrote that one of the most significant facts about human beings may be that âwe all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one.â Cara Joy Hughesâ multi-faceted life disputes that.
Toronto-born to Gordon R. and Eva C. Hughes in 1932, the family, which included her two older brothers Gordon and Bill, moved to Winnipeg, where Cara Joy started her education at the well-known Riverbend School. Her intelligence and unre…
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