Personal Life
Coombs lived with his family in the city of Pickering. His wife Marlene ran a day care in Scarborough (east Toronto), called the Butternut Day Care. They had three children: Christopher, Kenneth and Catherine (Minott). Marlene was killed in a traffic accident in 1992; she was walking on the sidewalk of Yonge Street in Toronto, when a car hit her. The driver may have had a seizure, resulting in a loss of control of the vehicle.
Coombs became a Canadian citizen in 1994. In 1996, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada.
Coombs suffered a stroke on September 10, 2001, and died on September 18, 2001 in Toronto, Ontario when he was seventy-three years old.
Coombs was cremated and his ashes scattered at his cottage in Maine
Read more about this topic: Ernie Coombs
Famous quotes related to personal life:
“He hadn’t known me fifteen minutes, and yet he was ... ready to talk ... I was still to learn that Munshin, like many people from the capital, could talk openly about his personal life while remaining a dream of espionage in his business operations.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To ‘see the light’ too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)