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Jean Locking
April 14, 1917 - September 3, 2012
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<div itemprop="description">Jean Locking (Nee: Love) <br> <br>The Locking and Love families regretfully inform our friends, relatives and business associates of the death of Dr. Jean Locking, LDS, ret’d at 8:20 p.m., Monday, September 3, 2012, at her home in Heritage House-Roseview Manor, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, from the combined ravages of old age and Alzheimer’s disease. <br> <br>Born to Dr. Margaret Logan Love (Nee: Kirkwood) and her husband Dr. Andrew Love, in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland on Saturday April 14, 1917, young Jean was an athletic and musical child, playing field hockey, hiking, cycling, riding horseback, swimming, golfing and curling. She studied piano and voice, performed with family members as mummers during special holiday times, and dancing ballet and taking roles in little theatre performances. Partially bilingual, she took summer courses in exchange programs in France and Germany. <br> <br>Jean began her medical studies in the mid 1930’s and soon switched to dentistry as she was vertically challenged and was unable to reach the then unadjustable operating tables. She graduated in 1938 from the dental college at the University of Glasgow and began practicing in Pitlochry, Scotland with Dr. “Babs” McDonald until the end of World War II. <br> <br>On September 17, 1944 Jean married a young Canadian Soldier, Sgt. John Albert Locking who had been sent to her for dental treatment. After the war she followed him to Canada as a war bride in 1946, coming to Port Arthur, Ontario where on February 14, 1947 their only child, son, Andrew Nicol Mackinnon “Drew” Locking was born. <br> <br>The young family followed John’s employment around northern Ontario from Port Arthur to Marathon to Port Arthur to Geraldton and settling in Longlac, Ontario. In September 1960 Jean returned to school to get her Canadian Degree at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Dentistry graduating on May 28, 1962 and having become certified as qualified to practice in any and all branches of Dentistry, opened her office and hung out her shingle as a Licentiate of Dental Surgery (L.D.S.), at the Kimberly Clark of Canada Infirmary on Birchcrest Road in Longlac, retiring in 1984 and moving with her husband John to Thunder Bay, Ontario where they lived until the ends of their lives. <br> <br>During her time in Longlac, Jean and John curled competitively in the winter months and golfed as time would allow in the summers. Jean enjoyed berry picking (but not the bugs), served terms volunteering with the Canadian Cancer Society as its Longlac Branch President, and as an executive member of the board of the Thunder Bay Dental Association. She sang alto in the St. John in the Wilderness Church Choir in Longlac, and through sponsorships helped out minor hockey, softball and skiing. <br> <br>Jean was predeceased by her parents, Meg and Andrew Love, younger brother Dr. James Love and husband John. <br> <br>She is survived by her son Drew, and his family: wife Cecile, Daughter Carol Ann Lauzier (Harold), Daughter Jennifer Topp (Michael Puderbach) and grandchildren Jessica and Matthew Topp, as well as her brother James Loves’ children Fiona and Sheena in southern Ontario and their children, and numerous nieces and nephews across Canada and other relatives in the U.S.A., Great Britain and Australia. <br> <br>In lieu of flowers the family would appreciate donations made to a charity of your choice or to her favourite charities: The Northern Ontario Cancer Research Foundation, The Alzheimer’s Society of Thunder Bay, or Thunder Bay District Humane Society. <br></div>