Miranda

Miranda was a Raymond Chandler beauty with a Joan Didion mind, and every single person who met her once knew they'd had an encounter with some eternal force of femaleness in its every dimension.

She was a model, a writer, the definition of cool.

"She was loved."

-Caitlin Flanagan

IN ONLY 32 years, Miranda Ann Rebecca Frum filled a planet with her friendships. She was equally at home in New York City, in Tokyo, in Tel Aviv, in Toronto, and in Prince Edward County, Ontario. She was the sharpest wit in every room she ever entered, the most entertaining companion, the instant center of all attention. She braved hazards to chase adventure. She told her parents that she would rather suffer a bad experience than regret a lost chance to see and feel.

Miranda was born in New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital. She grew up in Washington DC. She graduated from Toronto’s Havergal College, but her true school was the world. She read voraciously, immersed herself in history, delighted in art and literature, and possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of fashion, design, and music. She befriended celebrities and vagrants. Alluring and charismatic, generous and kind, she was desired by men, trusted by women, and adored by children.
She worked as a fashion model in cities across the world while beginning a career as a journalist and writer. A proud and liberal Jew, Miranda lived in Israel for four years. She learned to tell jokes in Hebrew and to curse in Arabic. Through the Gaza war of summer 2014, she ran from photo shoots to bomb shelters and then back to the photo shoot, while reporting on the war for publications in the United States and Canada.

She was diagnosed with an advanced brain tumor in the fall of 2018. Preparing for the arduous operation - and throughout the difficult recovery afterward - Miranda carried herself with never-failing self-possession. Throughout the ordeal, she was accompanied by her beloved spaniel Ringo. She was not fearless, but in the face of fear she was as courageous as any human being can aspire to be.

Miranda was the first child of Danielle and David Frum and the first grandchild of Peter and Yvonne Worthington and Murray and Barbara Frum. She had the good fortune to know and be cherished by her great-grandmother, Florence Rosberg. “I could not have loved you more,” Peter Worthington said to her just before he died, and those words spoke for all her family members. Her younger siblings Nathaniel Frum and Beatrice Frum relied upon her as much like a second mother as like a sister. She in turn protected them with fierce passion. She enthusiastically welcomed her sister-in-law Isabel Clay Frum and longed to meet her future nieces and nephews.

Death came suddenly and unexpectedly to Miranda in the early morning hours of February 16, 2024, due to consequences of her brain surgery. Miranda will spend eternity near the great lake and sandbanks where she spent so many happy hours as a little girl with dogs, books, and the family to whom she brought such joy.