Parcourez la nécrologie de Peggy Chamberlin Monday October 10th 2022 résidant dans la province Ontario pour le détail des funérailles
Peggy Margaret Chamberlin, born Margaret Sarah Alice Nickel, died peacefully on October 10th, 2022 at Ottawa, Ontario, leaving her gracious touch on the hearts in the memories of all those who knew and loved her. The twelfth surviving child of first generation immigrants Henry and Susanna Nickel, she came into this world on a prairie winter day January 16, 1931, at home on the family’s pioneer homestead in Herbert, Saskatchewan. Known for her gifted voice and lovely choir solos sung shyly from behind the curtains at church, and her feisty
nature outside of church, she grew up surrounded by the care of her nine older sisters and two brothers. Her father died when she was an infant. Leaving home at 16, she headed for the nearest big city, Regina, where she quickly became the valued employee of a Dry Cleaning business owner after increasing his customers with her friendly charm. It was the same magnetic personality that attracted her husband to be, Larry, a handsome young soldier, there to have his shirts laundered. So strong was her magnetic attraction that he refused to leave until she gave him her phone number, which the business owner entreated her to do after Larry announced that he would just wait there as long as it took. Their December 17, 1949 wedding was held during one of the coldest periods Regina has ever seen. It was the same day as her mother’s birthday. Their daughter, Patricia, was born in 1951, but shortly thereafter fate parted the newlyweds for a year as Larry volunteered to served as an NCO (Non Commissioned Officer) of a REME (Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers) regiment, in the Korean War at the age of only 20. Larry arranged for Peggy and their new baby girl to live with his family in Wakefield, Quebec, the picturesque village on a bend in the Gatineau River, where Larry’s ancestors had settled and operated the Chamberlin and Son General Store for generations. One day a gift from Korea arrived in the mail and Peggy opened it to find a lovely machined metal pagoda shaped box, and the next day a letter from Larry arrived instructing her to look in the packing tissue paper of the pagoda. Mortified that she had thrown away all the packing paper she urgently sifted through the entire household garbage of several homes just before it was going to be hauled to the dump. What she found in the paper wad was pagoda shaped diamond engagement ring, which she emotionally put on her finger and never took off for the rest of the 71 years of their marriage.
Larry’s return saw the birth of their son, Rodney, and “before the ink was dry” on Rod’s birth certificate their second son Ronald was born. Family life stepped up its pace for the young couple now living in Regina’s “Army Patch”. The Army years bounced Peggy and Larry and their young family around the country, including a REME assignment in Virginia, as well as the tent villages of many rifle ranges where Larry distinguished himself as Canada’s top Marksman. Later, Larry, became personal guard to the Queen's Sister, Princess Anne, when she visited her namesake city, Regina. When it was time to leave Army life behind, Peggy and Larry, moved to Ottawa, the nearest big city to the Chamberlin family in Wakefield, At the Provincial border, leaving Saskatchewan, Larry got out of the truck and stood
at salute on the side of the Trans Canada Highway, and thanked the prairie province for providing him with his wonderful wife and family. Saskatchewan in turn had a parting gift for the couple, and their third son, Ross, who was born the following June. From this point on in their new start-over, Peggy and Larry lived one life, partners in every sense of the word, working side by side 24/7 to launch and build Larry’s Driving School, which became the nationally distinguished Driver Safety Training School. Larry is credited with recommending, the introduction of ‘Yellow traffic lines’; which are more visible in the winter. Peggy was credited with the rapid and growing success of the business due her charm on the phone with prospective students. They also started multiple other business; A 24/7 Truck stop on the Trans Canada Hwy. in Saskatchewan. Later winning a coin toss with a business partner, in front of a lawyer, to sell their half of the business. Followed by a Taxis business, Snowplowing, and Window Manufacturing business in Ottawa. An Auto Body Business, Larry’s
Sports Store, Larry’s Driving School, and then a Drivers Education Supply company. Peggy played a big part in everyone of them.
Buying their first home in the Crystal Beach area, to raise their family, grow old and
die in, was Peggy’s dream. It was indeed a dream come true. For the next 60 years the bungalow was their sanctuary. Peggy called it her home base, in between, from leisure days at their summer cottage one of “the best fishing lakes in the country”, to their winter snowbird trailer in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Larry’s dream was to retire financially secure at the age of 40. Most would be in awe that it occurred at age 48. Looking back over their richly rewarding lives in a multitude of ways, it makes us all proud and envious at the same time that this couple got to spend over half of their adult lives in retirement. By then the four children had flown the nest, each living their own rewarding lives. But no matter how far the apples fell from the Chamberlin family free, each of their children was proud to say at the slightest opportunity that yes, indeed their elderly parents were still alive and well and even still living in the home that they’d grown up in.
Larry passed away at home age 90, and his Memorial service was held in the midst of the CoVid pandemic in 2021, celebrating the songs that Larry and Peggy had sung on so many road trips. Just as love stories go, Peggy died just over a year later. Peggy and Larry are survived by three of their four children, Pat, Rod and Ross, as well as their four grandchildren, Darryl, Andrea, Jessica and Julia, and nine great grandchildren, Andrea’s children Corban, Kayley, and Kendal, Darryl’s children Jacob and Anna, and Julia’s children; Bella, Deon, Jones and Giana. Peggy is also survived by her sister Rachael, and Larry’s loving sister Marilyn. Peggy and Larry were married for 71 years, and will be laid to rest together, at the Pinecrest Remembrance Cemetery in Ottawa, Ontario.
Please feel free to leaving a note on the obituary site in their memory. Thanks to all those who shared in their lives. Living to the ages of 90 and 91, it’s truly a celebration of lives well lived.
Monday October 10th 2022
Décès pour la Ville:Ottawa, Province: Ontario
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