Claire Elaine Reid

Claire Elaine Reid (née Hornberger) passed away at Sakura House Hospice surrounded by her family on Friday April 4, 2025, just shy of her 84th birthday.

Elaine was preceded in death by her parents George and Veronica, her sister Mary and her brother Paul (Francine) along with her best card playing partners Len and Laurian Myers. She leaves behind her “Guy,” husband Larry whom she shared a beautiful love affair with for over 60 years together. As Mom extraordinaire she will be forever missed by her children Mary (Alan), and Joannie (David), as well as her big “bruder” Greg (Margaret), and little “schwester” Joan.

Elaine was born and raised in Etobicoke, Ontario in the “Kingsway District” and spent many formidable summers at Thunder Beach on Georgian Bay. Considered a “brain,” upon leaving high school with top marks she worked as a “Girl Friday” until she embraced her true calling – as a giving and caring wife and mom. She found great joy in raising her two children. Fiercely protective and providing an abundance of love and devotion for her daughters and every other child in her surroundings with an environment of welcoming and belonging.

Elaine was the consummate “hostess with the mostest” holding countless holiday dinners, dinner parties, and gatherings. From her larger-than-life bubbly personality to her Salmon Ball, Elaine left an incredible impression on all her guests. Elaine moved to Woodstock in 2015 to be closer to her daughter Mary, however she spent time living in Bolton and Barrie, Ontario and made extended sojourns to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Elaine loved chips and dip with a glass of white wine filled with lots of ice cubes and an olive, playing euchre and cribbage, watching her soaps and reading mystery novels as well as her weekly “insipid rag.”

Her family would like to thank the medical professionals at Woodstock Hospital for their wonderful care and the amazing team at Sakura House Hospice.

A funeral Mass will be held at Our Lady of Sorrows, Catholic Church, 3055 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON, M8X 1C6 on Friday May 9, 2025 at 11:00 am. Interment will take place on the same day at 2:00 pm at Mount Hope Cemetery 305 Erskine Avenue Toronto, ON M4P 1Z7.

Wareing Cremation Services, 225 Norwich Avenue., Woodstock, Ontario has been entrusted with Final Arrangements. In lieu of flowers, please consider memorial donations to VON Sakura House. Your messages of remembrance and condolence may be shared here at wareingcremation.ca