[1] Maryon and Lester Pearson met at the University of Toronto, where he was a teacher and she was a student.

Geoffrey and Landon's daughter is USA Today journalist Patricia Pearson (not to be confused with her aunt, of the same name, who did not maintain a public career).

Maryon Pearson was best known for her sharp-tongued wit, developing a reputation as an outspoken figure who freely spoke her mind and had little use for the demure and quiet image fostered by many wives of previous prime ministers.

Among her most famous quotations:"Behind every successful man, there stands a surprised woman.

On the retired former prime minister's greater time at home: "I married him for better or worse.