Toni was a true Renaissance Woman. I met her when she invited me to sing traditional folk ballads for the Kodaly Music Teaching program at Holy Names University in Oakland. She then hired me to sing for an Elderhostel (now Roadscholar) study group interested in the Kodaly program and it’s close connection to traditional folk music. Toni went on to take over the leadership of the library at the Maritime Museum in San Francsico, published a book of sea shanties, arranged to have the last working shanty man & scholar,Stan Hugill, do a two day workshop at the museum. Toni also reported, edited and published the MacArthur Metro, a monthly small newspaper covering the neighborhoods of Oakland. She volunteered widely in the Oakland community and was awarded “Mother of the Year” in 2011. If you google search her name you will find a video of the awards ceremony, telling Toni’s story and her acceptance speech. She was active in community all her life, socially and politically and had an organic garden long before it was trendy. Sing Thing Family Singing has always been on her radar and, as this is the time we do sea shanties each year, we will learn some of Toni’s favorites from her book as well as from the Stan Hugill collection. No public memorial has as yet been scheduled, but Sing Thing dedicates our singing to Toni’s memory.