‘Saying goodbye to a legacy’: Laura Daye, N.S. matriarch and widow of Buddy Daye, dies at 90
Leslie said she will continue to stay involved in the church community in honour of her mother.Many Nova Scotians are likely familiar with Buddy Daye, who died in 1995. He was a celebrated professional boxer and the province’s first African Nova Scotian sergeant-at-arms. There is now aBut Laura preferred to live outside of the public eye, working in the background to raise their children and give them the best lives she could.
In her final years, Laura had been living at the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax. She was moved to the hospital over the weekend when she wasn’t feeling well. Leslie, along with other members of their large family, spent some time with her during her short hospitalization and got to say goodbye on Monday morning.“I leaned down, and she said, ‘I want to say thank you.’ And of course, the tears came, I just bawled.
“I said, ‘Mom, you don’t have to thank us. Thank you, you were a good mother. You were a very good mom for all of us.’”
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