08/27/2026
It is with great sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Luanna Luxton Armstrong, age 83, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. She died on August 23, 2026, at Ball Hospice House. She was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, on June 24, 1943, to Arthur and Celestine Luxton.
Luanna attended Loretto Catholic High School in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, then went to Toronto, Ontario, to attend Ryerson University for Interior Decorating. She started her family and helped support them by sharing a talent she had been developing since the age of three, teaching dance in the basement of her home in Dundas, Ontario.
As her family grew, she continued teaching dance from the basement of her home in Bolton, Ontario. Eventually, an old barn was converted into a dance studio and theater, which became known as Simpson Place.
She ran her Luanna Luxton School of Dance and Performing Arts there for almost twenty years. They also hosted a Rotary Summer Theater Festival, and an annual natural health and metaphysical festival called The Festival of Light.
Luanna returned to her roots in the late 1990s and married her high school sweetheart, Greg Armstrong. They made their home on Sugar Island.
She led a community dance program at Lake Superior State University for several years before opening the Academy of Performing Arts, with studios at the Big Bear and annual shows at the Kewadin Theatre in Sault Ste. Marie.
Luanna became an integral part of the Sault...
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