“The last few weeks have been utterly horrid,” Genevieve said.

She took solace in the fact that she still has her dad, John, and they can lean on each other.

Former colleague and MPP Norm Sterling talked about how Munro came to Queen’s Park for the right reasons.

“She thought about what’s good for the people of Ontario and didn’t really give a hoot about what the label was,” he said.

With her constituents as her guiding compass, Sterling said, she always kept them top of mind in all she did.

While she garnered the nickname “Lady Munro” in the Legislature, Sterling said Munro’s gentle demeanour was not to be interpreted as weakness. She was tough in negotiations.

“An iron fist with velvet gloves,” Sterling said.

Her love for the foundations of democracy was evident in everything she did, Sterling said, pointing to the framed Magna Carta at the front of the church that hung in her office.

The final private members bill she put forward was the Magna Carta Day Act. The bill passed second reading but not third, Sterling said.

Before entering politics, Munro worked as a high school teacher, specializing in history, at Huron Heights Secondary School and Dr. J.M. Denison Secondary School in Newmarket for 24 years.

She was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 1995 and retired in 2018.

She is survived by husband John, daughter Genevieve, son in-law Andrew Hay and sister Cynthia.

Politicians of note at her funeral included former premier Mike Harris, York-Simcoe MPP Caroline Mulroney and former York-Simcoe MP Peter Van Loan.