Joyce Beaton

Born in Mimico, Ontario to Marjorie Slack and Clarence (Pete) Dadson, the first child of six. Raised in Port Credit, attended Forest Avenue Public School and Port Credit High School, graduating 1951. Trained in radio acting and working for Stovin and Company, radio reps, until marriage in 1952. Married James Leslie Beaton, childhood sweetheart 1953, birthed six children, two of whom died in childhood of Sandhoff Disease, a derivitive of Tay Saks. Raised four sons, Peter, Douglas, James, Lorne to …