Dora Muriel Budd

Dee died on December 15, 2015, after a long well fought battle with caducity at age of 97 in Victoria Hospice. She was born in Acton, London. The family immigrated to Canada and settled in Edmonton, where she eventually attended Westmount School. She tried out for the Edmonton Grads. In 1943 she met and married her first husband, Bob Kiriakides, an American RCAF flying officer, and daughter Gaye was born in 1945. After his discharge from the USAF/USAAF in 1947 they bought a Vagabond trailer and travelled the US, settling in Florida where he flew with Miami Airlines, and son Bob was born in Jacksonville in 1952. Bob Sr. was killed in a plane crash in Elizabeth, New Jersey on December 19,1951 six weeks before her son was born. Dee returned to Edmonton to live with her parents and raise the two little ones. She bought a house and took in boarders for several years, then became a secretary in the Departments of Psychiatry and then Chemistry at the University of Alberta, where she met and married her second husband Anthony Budd in 1967. She then became Executive Secretary to the Vice President (Chemistry). She and Tony retired to Victoria in the early 80s, and eventually moved to The Cedars. Tony died in 2008. She is survived by her brother Edmund and sister Phyllis, children Gaye, Bob (Janet), Graham (Marg) and Patricia (Steve), nieces, nephews, and various grands. Dee loved unconditionally, was a very wise woman, well read, and had no trouble laughing at herself. She will be missed by her family, and all her friends at The Cedars Retirement Residence. Dee wrote the following, which she wanted to share with you: One day they'll say I died and perhaps be sad. But the me of me will rise and listen to the music of the spheres. The me of me, the spark, the life, the spirit will wander among the planets old and new to see those galaxies at their beginning, beyond time where time does not exist, to experience, to feel the strange and wondrous cosmos in all its glory -- to the source. D. Budd In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Our Place in Victoria, or the charity of your choice. No service by request.

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