Parrish pays tribute to her former student Catherine O’Hara. Mississauga mayor was comedy legend’s high school teacher.
Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish took to social media to remember the late comedy icon, Catherine O’Hara. But Parrish wasn’t just memorializing O’Hara as a fan. She was her former high school teacher.
Parrish taught at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke in the 1970s, where O’Hara was one of her students.
The Mayor posted a photo of a young O’Hara to her social media, noting that it is how she will remember the film star.
“Brilliant, funny, popular, caring,” Parrish wrote of O’Hara. “Amazing human being.”
The SCTV and Home Alone star died at the age of 71 on Jan. 30.
