Members of Ottawa pipe bands are coming together to pay tribute to one of the victims of Friday's bus crash at Westboro station.



Judy Booth, 57, was one of three people killed, along with Bruce Thomlinson and Anja Van Beek, when a double decker bus slammed into the shelter on the Transitway during the Friday afternoon commute.

Booth was retired, but still worked occasionally for the Access to Information and Privacy office at the National Capital Commission, where she was Friday before getting on the Route 269 bus.

But her passions lay in helping organize the North Lanark Highland Games in Almonte, Ont., and playing in several pipe and drum bands across the region.

Got into drumming

Booth met her husband, Ches Booth, as part of the highland and pipe band community.

She learnedto play the tenor drum later in life and played for four Ottawa groups before she died.

Judy Booth and her husband Ches Booth. Both were heavily involved in pipe bands and highland games in the Ottawa region. (RCMP Pipes and Drums National Division)

"She was just one of those wonderful, warm people," said Brad Hampson, the drum major for the RCMP Pipes and Drums National Division where Booth played for several years.

He is also a former staff sergant with the Ottawa police and a former collisions investigator with the OPP.

Booth loved everything about the pipe band life, from the music to the friends she made, and probably would have played for every pipe band in Ottawa if she could, he said.

He added the news of her death hit the