‘Together they were everything and perfect’
Wynne offered a tribute to the Shermans’ wide-ranging contributions to causes at home and abroad.
“Because of their dedication to giving to those in need, there are countless students and patients, children and seniors, so many people here at home and around the world whose lives were touched by Honey and Barry who don’t know it,” she said. “And I get the sense that that’s exactly how the Shermans wanted it to be.”
“I didn’t prepare well,” Honey Sherman’s sister Mary Shechtman said, fighting back tears. “I guess I’ve just been in a fog over the last little while. I’m standing here confused and dazed and really angry, and I’m afraid for the shock that’s going to wear off and the reality that’s going to set in.”
Shechtman reflected on her sister’s humble beginnings as the daughter of Holocaust survivors, recalling a childhood far removed from the affluence that would later come to the family as Apotex flourished.
“One may have been soft, calm, brilliantly logical, staunchly atheist and unconditionally loving and proud,” Jonathon Sherman said, speaking of his father. “The other may have been firm, intensely energetic, brilliantly gregarious, silently spiritual and unconditionally honest and caring.
“But together they were everything and perfect.”
Daughter Kaelen also stepped to the podium.
“My dad used to come home every day from work and, no matter what, he would always make sure to come to our rooms to sing to us and say goodnight,” she told mourners. “I would like to take this time to sing it back to him,” she said, then started the song, ‘You are my sunshine.’
THERE ARE ... SO MANY PEOPLE HERE AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD WHOSE LIVES WERE TOUCHED BY HONEY AND BARRY.