Miza Davie was born Mireille Françoise Bosc in Paris, France on April 16, 1934 to Paule Fernande Metge and Louis Bosc. Her parents separated around the time the war started and Miza’s mother, who was a well known national radio personality, was left to raise Miza, her little sister Françoise, who was two years younger than she and her brother Robert, who was two years younger still, on her own.

When the Germans first invaded France, the family left for Marseilles with thousands of other refugees. Before long, the Germans occupied the entire country. During the first years of the occupation, Miza’s mother went back to work in Paris and the children spent the next two years staying with relatives in Vébron near Nimes in the south of France and then Générac near Bordeaux where the French Résistance was highly active.

After the war ended, Miza lived with her mother and siblings in Paris. In 1950, she emigrated to England to study nursing. Upon receiving her State Registered Nurse degree she travelled to Houston, Texas to conduct her post-graduate work.

She then came to Canada in 1964 and worked at the Ottawa General Hospital before being asked to organize the Department of Experimental Surgery at the University of Ottawa where she spent the next 30 years of her life engaged in research and teaching surgery. In 1993 she received the prestigious Award of Excellence of the Faculty of Medicine.

Somewhere along her journey she was sidetracked from her
medical career long enough to marry her husband Syd (whom she has looked after ever since).

Several years prior to her retirement from the University of Ottawa, Miza joined the Lions - thus making the transition from full time worker to full time SERVER inevitable. She was an active member of the service club right up until the time of her passing and was a champion of many youth oriented initiatives both within and outside the club.