{"id":2198,"date":"2025-11-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/horace-keith-swaby-toronto-star-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:57:39","slug":"horace-keith-swaby-toronto-star-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-obituaries\/horace-keith-swaby-toronto-star-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Horace \u201cKeith\u201d Swaby, Wolmer\u2019s Boys and University of Toronto \u2014 Toronto Star"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/obituaries.thestar.com\/obituary\/horace-keith-swaby-1093355931\">Toronto Star<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/horace-keith-swaby-toronto-star-2025-feat.jpg\" alt=\"Horace Alphonso \u201cKeith\u201d Swaby. Family photograph published with the Toronto Star notice, 29 November 2025\" class=\"wp-image-2234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/horace-keith-swaby-toronto-star-2025-feat.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/horace-keith-swaby-toronto-star-2025-feat-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/horace-keith-swaby-toronto-star-2025-feat-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/horace-keith-swaby-toronto-star-2025-feat-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/horace-keith-swaby-toronto-star-2025-feat-600x314.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Horace Alphonso \u201cKeith\u201d Swaby. Family photograph published with the Toronto Star notice, 29 November 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>November 29, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MARKHAM, Ontario \u2014 The <em>Toronto Star<\/em> of 29 November 2025 printed the family notice for Horace Alphonso \u201cKeith\u201d Swaby, 79, of Markham, who died at home on 17 November 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The notice recorded: \u201cKeith graduated from Wolmer\u2019s Boys\u2019 School in Jamaica before going on to major in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto.\u201d He was born in Kingston in 1945. Employers named were Alpart in Jamaica and Bruce Power in Ontario. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Barbara; children Nadia and Duane; and grandchildren Hendrix and Olympia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/obituaries.thestar.com\/obituary\/horace-keith-swaby-1093355931\">Toronto Star<\/a>, November 29, 2025. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Toronto Star November 29, 2025 MARKHAM, Ontario \u2014 The Toronto Star of 29 November 2025 printed the family notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}