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Marion Kehoe

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Everything the Society’s own records say of Marion Kehoe — the offices held, the standings conferred, and the awards won — gathered on one page. Where the records are silent, so is this one.

In memoriam · 17 January 2019

A Life Member and Member-at-Large from London, Ontario, in her 99th year. Her obituary ran in the newsletter cover-dated "Autumn 2018" (Vol. LXVII No. 1) under her fuller name, "Marion Stratton KEHOE (Donaldson)" -- a full name and maiden name printed nowhere else. The cover date sits oddly before her recorded 17 January 2019 death, suggesting (as with other issues in this run) the issue was actually produced later than its printed season.

From Autumn 2018, page 6.

Standing

Society Member 1988–1997

Branch

London · recorded holding office in 1965

An Honourary Life Member (2008). The report of the 9th Annual Meeting, 1959, names her as “Mrs. Kehoe, London”, demonstrating turtle lapel pins. With Dorothy McPherson she co-founded the Annual's London Jewellery Award in 2010, first awarded at the 61st Annual (Dundurn Castle, Hamilton) and intended for five consecutive years; the Society's Members-at-Large final report (May 2026) restates the fact but dates it to a Fall 2019 newsletter mention rather than the founding itself, while her obituary and Dorothy McPherson's 2016 profile both date the founding to 2010. The Society’s own citation for her Life Membership has her joining about 1953; a 2016 report and her obituary both give 1952.

From Spring 1959, page 4; Spring 2008, page 5; 66th Annual Meeting — Reports, page 6; 69th Annual Meeting — Reports, page 13; Autumn 2018, page 6; Members-at-Large — Final Newsletter Report, page 1; and Summer 2016.

Served the Society as

London Branch Vice-President 1959
11th Assembly Demonstrator 1965
London Branch President 1965
Executive Council 1973–1975
Council 1976–1977
Director 1998

Honours

Ontario Volunteer Service Award 2001
Named on the Society's roll of Ontario Volunteer Service Award recipients. Presented at the 51st Annual (2001) — Kehoe and Chynoweth in attendance; Corbett, Riddell, Kemp named among "four others" honoured the same year.
Honourary Life Membership 2008
Honoured with a Life Membership for over fifty years of service.
Honourary Life Member 2008

Awards

Craftsman Ribbon 1978–2007
London Leather Award for Best Jewellery 2010
Salon Ribbon 2003
Western Fair First Prize 1964

Demonstrations given

Turtle lapel pins 1959
9th Annual
From Spring 1959, page 4.
Making the Branch's lapel pins 1964
London Branch meetings, 1963-64 season
From Spring 1964, page 6.
Small Articles 1967
17th Annual
From Spring 1967, page 5.
Small articles, from book marks to jewellery (with Joan Carroll) 1968
18th Annual
From Summer 1968, page 2.
Butterflies 1982
32nd Annual
From 32nd Annual Meeting 1982 — programme, Holiday Inn West, Toronto.
Violet Pins and Others (workshop demonstration) 2000
50th Anniversary Annual
From Spring & Summer 2000, page 5.
Creative Jewelry (demonstration, Hospitality Suite) 2010
60th Annual
From Spring 2010, page 4.

Where this comes from

This name in the index of people →