Beverly Sue Hendrix

Beverly Sue {Buffy} Hendrix of The Cardinal Residence, Hamilton, died peacefully at Hamilton General Hospital, after a brief illness brought on by complications from diabetes. 

Buffy, born in Bloomington, Indiana and the oldest of three sisters, was preceded in death by her father, Aubrey William Hendrix of Bloomington, her mother, Naomi Catherine Cutshall of Elmira, New York, and her sister Roberta Hendrix Barnes of Bloomington. She is survived by her sister, Joyce Hendrix Lynch of Midlothian, Texas, niece Catherine Elizabeth Moon, and nephew John Alexander Parker as well as great nieces Cali Catherine, Hayli Elizabeth and Darci Paige Moon. 

A graduate of Bloomington High School, Buffy attended Indiana University and Indiana State University before moving to Toronto in the Sixties. After working for several Advertising firms and Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship while pursuing further education, Buffy obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilfred Laurier University in Religion and Culture and then a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto. She also took further Graduate level courses in Religion and Theology at Wycliffe College and St. Augustine Seminary. 

She joined the Toronto Separate School Board in 1979 and remained through to her retirement in 2003. Despite her mental health struggles, she enjoyed a successful teaching career first in several primary schools and then at Michael Power St. Joseph High School in Etobicoke, a post which gave her great satisfaction. She was passionately interested in world religions and would strike up conversations with people she met in her extensive travels as well as those locally, eager to hear about their ethnic backgrounds and experience their cultures. 

She was an avid reader, a lifelong habit which resulted in an extensive personal library; she was known to read a book a day at one point. She had a quick wit, could be very gregarious and was always intellectually curious and anxious to learn. A determined individualist, Buffy insisted on living life on her own terms to the very end, even though that didn’t always work to her best interests. Those of us who cared about her had no choice but to respect that. 

As Buffy requested, cremation has taken place and there will be no public memorial. A small private service will take place at a future date.