Remembering Eileen Glavin: “I just think she really was this beacon of happiness and kindness that was quite infectious.”
Eileen Glavin may once have worked as a spy during the Second World War, but it was in her day-to-day life in the decades that followed where she made her greatest impact.Tony Glavin, one of Eileen’s four sons, said his mother was hugely impactful to many of the people she encountered in the community, not just her family.
“They just revere my mother as this great caregiver and adult who gave them the time of day and was really kind to them,” he said. “And, you know, we feel that way as her children, obviously, too.” In September, Kiwanis Care Centre staff took Eileen to Queen’s Park to lay flowers in honour of Queen Elizabeth.
The 2015 Academy Award-nominated film, The Imitation Game, was about Alan Turing, a British computer scientist/mathematician who many consider to be the inventor of the first computer. In the Second World War, he developed techniques for breaking German codes – and Eileen was one of many women who worked in “listening stations” across England.
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