Husband. Paterfamilias. Sentimentalist. Small-towner. Born Feb. 20, 1943, in Barrie, Ont.; died Nov. 27, 2023, in Toronto of natural causes; aged 80
.Thomas Pratt was an army kid, the son of Major Gordon Pratt and his wife, Doreen, and the big brother of Lynn. That meant he moved around a lot, skipping across army bases of southwestern Ontario . But when the family settled in Meaford , Tom was home. This municipality on Georgian Bay appealed to him for its simplicity. Years after he’d left, Tom kept Meaford in easy reach. If someone let him into a line of Toronto traffic, he’d declare of the considerate driver, “He’s got to be from Meaford .
Tom enjoyed a long career as a lawyer and loved sharing stories about his varied cases with friends and family, never failing to linger on the characteristics of his clients and their tales that he found absurd. Tom imbued all he did with that principled stance, including his turn as president of a community theatre he joined when the family moved to Caledon in the 1980s. He loved his time with the Caledon Townhall Players, and he and Susan were the heart of the club during their tenure, hosting historic cast parties on their sprawling property that included sledding on squares of cardboard and dancing to Bruce Springsteen.
An avid reader, Tom was a brilliant practitioner of the English language, endlessly prepared to define words for those who were flummoxed by them. If you disputed his definition, even better. “I have a loonie,” he’d announce, proposing a bet about, say, the definition of “perfidy.” He mostly won, but nobody was fussed when no money changed hands.
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