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- Pankovitch, Ivy
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Ivy Weir-Pankovitch was born in 1929 to Edward J. Weir and Luella Crosby/Crosbie in the Eastern Townships, where she spent most of her life. She graduated Brookbury High School in 1946 and later married Don Pankovitch with whom she had five children: David, Peter, Jane, Eve and Steven Pankovitch. In 1969, she began a career in journalism as women's editor and feature writer for the Sherbrooke Record, then operated by Conrad Black, Peter White and David Radler. She commenced divorce procedures against her husband in the same year and later decided to return to school to study nursing. Ivy Weir worked as a nurse in the intensive care unit of the Sherbrooke Hospital all the while continuing to write for the Record. Her pieces focused on topics such as national politics, the elderly, regional affairs and healthcare. A devout Catholic, she nonetheless introduced a motion to dispense with the prayer that started council meetings after being elected as a town councilor. Ivy Weir died on 17 April 2014 at La Maison Aube-Lumière in Sherbrooke.