Former Law librarian and a professor emerita Margaret Banks died April 29 at Parkwood Hospital, surrounded by her good friends Marianne Welch and Marg VanDaalen.
Banks, 81, will be remembered by her many friends and colleagues as a loyal and considerate friend, a meticulous scholar and a generous supporter of education, religion and those in need.
A funeral service will be held today (May 3) at St. John the Divine Church. Interment will follow at St. John’s Cemetery (Arva).
Friends who wish to do so may make memorial donations to the Margaret A. Banks Prize in Geriatric Medicine, Foundation Western, The University of Western Ontario, Westminster Hall, Suite 110, London, ON N6A 3K7, c/o Donna Swanson.
Online condolences can be made at www.loganfh.ca. A tree will be planted as a living memorial.
In 2005, Western News ran a feature story on Banks and her accomplishments.