Ernie Coombs - Personal Life

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

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