DAVIES, WILHELMINA "MIMI" BABBITT (NORDIN) Following a stroke on March 16th, died at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital, Fredericton, N.B., May 27, 2003, at the age of 83. The daughter of the late Helen Babbitt of Swan Creek, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, and Oscar William Nordin of Harnosand, Sweden, she was born in Paris, France, where her parents lived during and after the First World War (" I was a peace child"). She was educated in Chaponval (France), Montreal, and Saint John, and worked for the Canadian Farm Loan Board in Saint John in the late 1930s until she met and married Cyril Davies of Tondu, Wales, in 1940. Throughout her married life of fifty-nine years, she lived at various intervals in Halifax- Dartmouth, Sydney, Moncton, and Kentville. During more than thirty years in Moncton, Mimi Davies was an active member of Mountain View United Church, received a diamond pin for over a thousand hours of volunteer work in the Moncton Hospital (particularly enjoying working with the children's ward on crafts), and painted and exhibited regional landscapes with the Moncton Art Society. During her painting years, she took courses and workshops with the Moncton Art Society, the Université de Moncton, Mount Allison University, and in Halifax. Following the death of her husband, Cyril, in Kentville in 1999, she moved in 2000 to Fredericton (where, most recently, she lived at Windsor Court). She is survived by her daughter, Professor Gwendolyn Davies, of Fredericton; her son, Dr. Thomas Davies (Bonnie) of Virginia; her sister, Helen (Nordin) Dempsey, of Kentville; nephews Daniel Babbitt Dempsey (Kentville), Ian Dempsey (Linda) (Halifax), Gerald Davies (Sheila)(Bristol, England); and first cousins, Harry Bridges (Edna) of Sheffield, New Brunswick; Astrid Broman of Stockholm, Sweden; and Signe Lindstrom of Stockholm, Sweden. She will be buried beside her husband in a private family graveside service in Willowbank Cemetery, Wolfville, Canon Douglas Hergett officiating. Memorial donations can be given to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of New Brunswick at 110 Crown St., Suite 340, Saint John, NB, E2L 2X7 (1-800-663- 3600). Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the W.C. Hiltz/White Family Funeral Home, Kentville.