- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor

We are grateful to the community who help us share stories that matter to our neighbours. Today a reader wrote to tell us that she was going to the cemetery in Leith to put a rose on the grave of Susan O'Hara Williscroft Tice.

Yesterday the Toronto Police announced that they had charged Joseph George Sutherland, 61, with the 1983 murders of Susan Tice and Erin Gilmour. Using genetic geneology, they were able to link the two cases in 2000 and this year, 39 years after they died, justice may be on the horizon for Susan and Erin.

Susan's parents were Dr. Burton Ardill Williscroft and his wife Jane (Wallace) Williscroft who lived in Owen Sound. Her paternal grandparents Benj and Alice, Williscroft and aunt Kathleen Williscroft are buried in Greenwood cemetery.

Sue Williscroft began at McMaster University in 1956, and became a social worker and family therapist. She married Fred Tice in Owen Sound in 1961, but they were recently divorced when Susan moved to Toronto from Calgary months before she was killed.

Susan was 45 when she died, and was the mother of three sons and a daughter.

Susan is buried in the Leith United Church cemetery along with her only sister, Nancy Jane (Williscroft) Spence, who died peacefully at her nursing home in Thornbury in 2017 at age 83.

May they rest in peace.