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Fern Coulter Obituary
COULTER, Fern (nee Fox) passed away Wednesday, November 6, 2024.
Born June 15, 1923 to Clifford and Ruth Fox (nee Campbell) of Leamington, Ontario.
Fern was the oldest sister of a family of 8 Fox children.
She was lovingly referred to, by her brothers and sisters, as “Sis”. Fern assumed the role of raising her siblings, as her parents worked to provide for the family during the depression and war. This term of endearment continued, as her nieces, nephews and great-nieces and nephews always referred to her as “Aunt Sis”.
After graduation from High School, Fern worked as a Bell telephone operator, until she married Jim Coulter on November 29, 1946. She moved to the Coulter family farm located on the 9th concession, Wheatley, where Fern lived in the house that she and Jim built until 2015. Jim died in 1976.
Fern is survived by her only daughter, Peggy, of Ayr, Ontario and Peggy’s two children, her son, Nathan (Cindy Delfgauw) and his 3 sons, Camden, William, and Jackson and her daughter Oedyia (Brendan) Cleary of Erin. Peggy’s youngest son Kirt was deceased in 2006.
As well, Fern us survived by her only son, Robert (Janet Lowes), of Alban and his three children Scott, Nicole, and Matthew (Nicole Berkien), and Matthew’s 2 daughters, Olivia and Charlotte. Gramma Fern was always there for her children and grandchildren, especially during accidents and illnesses. She found a way to make any bad situation so much better.
Fern is survived by her youngest brother, Larry Fox, a long term resident of Thunderbay.
She worked for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Fisheries Research, for 30 years, retiring in 1988.
Following Fern’s retirement, she really looked forward to Wednesday, at the Car Barn, for a perch lunch with Donna and Bill Merritt. These faithful friends continued this outing with Fern for years.
After retirement, she was a hostess for a Wheatley bus tour company, she enjoyed exploring in her RV, and she travelled to Scotland as well as making trips to visit her family in Thunderbay. She volunteered with meat and fruit potpie making at the Wheatley Trinity Church. She enjoyed and helped at the Friendship Club and its events. As well, Fern attended many local horse competitions. The love of horses was instilled in her early, as her father was a Roman trick horse rider, showing his skills at fairs and horse shows. Many good times were spent at her niece, Sandra Diponio’s home in Leamington.
When the children were young, Fern and her sister Jane Wigle, had many family get-togethers at their homes. Almost every Saturday or Sunday, the families were either at the Coulter farm or at Pulford Avenue. So much good food, so many laughs, card games that included all, even the children, tobogganing on the barn hill in the winter or up in the barn hay loft, and so many more family traditions were based on love and have formed treasured memories.
Her parents and 4 of her youngest siblings moved to Thunderbay in 1949. Knowing that they would not have all the fresh food they had enjoyed in Southern Ontario, Fern canned every fruit or vegetable available to her. Several trips each year to Thunderbay were done with the family car loaded down, with all of her hard work, prepared for her northern family, in those precious glass preserve jars.
Fern’s last years were spent at the Stirling Heights Long Term Care facility in Cambridge, where excellent care was given as she battled with dementia.
Fern’s wishes have been granted, and she has been laid to rest next to her husband Jim, at Erie Cemetery, Wheatley. Arrangements entrusted to Reid Funeral Home, 14 Russell St., Leamington (519-326-2631). In remembrance of Fern, donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Society. Online condolences may be shared at www.reidfuneralhome.ca
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November 6 2024

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Décès pour la Ville:Leamington, Province: Ontario

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