Service:
Private
Gwendoline Belle Hitchcock of Guilds passed away at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance on Friday July 19, 2019. Gwen was born 97 years ago to the late Robert & Jane “Jennie” Shaw and was the last surviving member of her family having been predeceased by her sisters Betty Ouellette, Bonnie Shaw and Geraldine Shaw as well as her brother Robert Shaw.
Gwen and her husband Bruce Raymond Hitchcock (1992) farmed for many years in Guilds. They raised three children; Geri McPherson of Guilds, Jack & Katherine Hitchcock of Rondeau and Don Hitchcock of Guilds. She was the proud grandmother of Alicia & Jarrod Kemp, Wyatt Hitchcock, Danielle & Scott Parker, Leah Guyitt, Julie Guyitt, great-grandmother of Dylan, Darrell, Laci and Livia Coll, Alexia Huffman Guyitt, MacKenzie and Leland Parker, and Isabel Kemp as well as the great-great-grandmother of Nash Beecroft Coll. Gwen is now reunited in heaven with her great granddaughters Amelia Ann and Christina Emily.
Gwen worked at the Sara Johnson Residence in Guilds prior to her retirement and was a lifetime member of New Scotland United Church.
Cremation has taken place and a private family service will take place at a later date.
Friends wishing to remember Gwen with a memorial donation are asked to consider the New Scotland United Church.
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Nos plus sincères sympathies à la famille et aux amis de Gwen Hitchcock March 23 1922 July 19 2019..
blenheim community funeral home
Décès pour la Ville:Blenheim, Province: Ontario