Above all, Gwendolyn Tobin wanted us to remember her love of pizza
“The truth is I enjoyed eating just about everything: lobsters, ice cream, yogurt-covered pretzels, you name it,” reads the message published in the Cape Breton Post.
“Most of you know me as ‘mum’, ‘ma’, ‘grannie’, ‘nan’, ‘Gwen’, ‘Mrs. Tobin’ or more simply ‘Gwen dear’, as in ‘How are you, Gwen dear?’” she wrote. “One of the hardest things I ever had to do was outlive 3 of my children … I figured at the age of 102, it was time to join them,” she wrote. “The last thing I want you to do is feel sorry for me,” wrote Tobin. “I was far better off than most and wanted for nothing.”
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