Career
Garber"s media career spans 44 years in both print and electronic media. Mississippi Garber wrote the occasional piece for The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail, and she also contributed online to She was the Managing Director of food-travel-entertainment site.
She wrote a weekly column for television Week Magazine called The Bargain Hunter.
Together with John Keyes, Mississippi Garber had co-authored the books Victoria"s Best Bargains and Exploring Ethnic Vancouver and an updated version of Cheap Eats Vancouver.
Their food and travel writing has appeared in publications as diverse as Canada"s National newspaper, the Globe and Mail and Vancouver"s award-winning Georgia Straight. Most recently, the duo was commissioned to write the Vancouver section of the Bradman"s Business Guide
The couple also wrote a regular international travel column for the Culver City News and they would generally judge together at international chili competitions.
After a year-long fight with cancer, Garber died in the early hours of July 17, 2011 while an in-patient at the British Columbia Cancer Agency hospital.
