A radio personality once called Joy Taylor, “Crazy Aunt Joy” and she wore it like a badge of honour. Beloved and esteemed by family, friends, the media and the NDP, Joy was a free-spirit, an intelligent woman, whose love and compassion for others was boundless. Each day, she would send emails to newspaper editors, promoting human rights, decrying abuses of power and encouraging love and goodwill. As “Tiger Taylor,” a 90- year old boxer and as her own persona, she starred in videos for Operation Maple, to promote her political beliefs. Her book, “A Life of Joy” describes a life filled with joy but also pain.
Yet still she found time every week to bake goodies for family, friends, store clerks and dogs.
Joy’s love for the world was evident in all that she did for others. And the world reciprocated with letters and emails of love for her. A transplanted Newfie, Joy moved from Petites, Newfoundland to Toronto as a baby and she later raised a family in Scarborough. Husband, Ed Taylor, preceded her in death, as did four sisters and three brothers. Succeeding Joy are two of her brothers, Harry Courtney (wife, Eileen) of St Joseph’s Island and Stan Courtney (wife, June) of North Bay, son Chuck Taylor (wife, Ann), daughter Kathi Taylor Clement (husband, John), 4 grandchildren, many nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, and a wide circle of friends.
Joy was a big support of Lola Lawton’s work with First Nations people and has a go fund me page. In lieu of flowers, consider donating to Relay for Hunger Go Fund Me. https://www.gofundme.com/relay-for-hunger or Doctors without Borders. http://www.msf.ca/
Arrangements are under the care of Giffen-Mack Funeral Home and Cremation Centre