into law, and opened a family law practice. In December 1979, LaMarsh was rushed to Sunnybrook Medical Centre where she was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. While receiving treatment for her cancer at Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital, Governor General Edward Schreyer invested her as an Officer of the Order of Canada, at her hospital bed on July 22, 1980. A few months later, just days away from the 20th anniversary of her first federal political victory, she died on October 27, 1980, aged 55. Her funeral was held in Niagara Falls on October 29, 1980. She had six female pallbearers including: Edith Druggan and Florence Rosberg, of Niagara Falls, broadcaster Barbara Frum, British Columbia Judge Nancy Morrison, lawyer Pamela Verill Walker, and Doris Anderson, president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women. It was a short service, attended by 300 friends and dignitaries including Ontario's premier William Davis, former Ontario Lieutenant-Governor Pauline McGibbon, and several federal politicians including the man she backed for federal Liberal leader in 1968, Paul Hellyer. She was laid to rest next to her parents, at a graveyard that bordered the historic Canadian battleground, Lundy's Lane. Archives There is a Judy LaMarsh fonds at Library and Archives Canada. References Bibliography External links 1924 births 1980 deaths Lawyers in Ontario Canadian memoirists Canadian Ministers of Health and Welfare Canadian Presbyterians Canadian talk radio hosts Women government ministers of Canada Canadian women lawyers Women members of the House of Commons of Canada Canadian women novelists CBC Radio hosts Deaths from cancer in Ontario Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada Officers of the Order of Canada Osgoode Hall Law School alumni People from Chatham-Kent People from Niagara Falls, Ontario University of Toronto alumni Women in Ontario politics Canadian women memoirists Writers from Ontario 20th-century Canadian women politicians 20th-century Canadian women writers 20th-century Canadian lawyers 20th-century Canadian novelists Canadian women radio hosts 20th-century women lawyers 20th-century memoirists Canadian Screen Award winning journalists