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May 4, 1939 - September 9, 2025 |
Mary Jane Hall [nee Nesbitt] (Jane Hall), left Turtle Island on September 9, 2025, to sail to heaven on Key Largo, her and Robin’s boat of many happy adventures. Her loving husband, Robin Hall, predeceased her in 2013. Jane is survived by Robin’s 3 children, Jane, Dennice and Matthew. The family moved to Brampton Ontario when her father, Jack Nesbitt, became Vice-President of Personnel at A.V. Roe Canada Limited, which produced the Avro Arrow. At 21 Jane left Altadore for the University of Toronto where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts. After University, Jane traveled across the Atlantic to London. Having been a reporter for Thomson Newspapers in Brampton, she had a letter of introduction to Baron Roy Thomson, who helped her to find freelance work in London. During this time Jane joined a local theatre group and found a favourite pastime. After Robin’s passing Jane established the Robin and Jane Hall Business Award Endowment at the University of Victoria, Peter B. Gustafson, School of Business to fund, after her death, an annual award to help students entering their first year in the Bachelor of Commerce and MBA Program. Donations in Robin and Jane’s memory can be made to the University of Victoria Robin and Jane Hall Business Award Endowment. |