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Ellen Gilmore
Obituary
It is with sadness and deep love that we announce the passing of our mother, Amma, and Great-Amma, Ellen Shirley Gilmore (Sigurdson) on April 3, 2025. Ellen was born in the Icelandic village of Husavik, Manitoba on September 28, 1929. She was the second oldest of 7 children born to Bjorn and Hildur Sigurdson including Irene, Alice, Raymond, Gilbert, Sylvia and John.
She was a willing and able farm girl. She’d recount stories of tending the vegetable gardens with her mother, helping her father and brothers on the fields with their horse Blessa, and sleeping huddled together in the hay loft for warmth during the years of the Great Depression. Trips ‘home’ to the Sigurdson Farm in Gimli Manitoba to hang out with her brothers, sisters and their families were the highlight of summer road trips.
As an RN, Ellen began a nursing career at Winnipeg General Hospital marrying John Carlyle Gilmore (1927-2010) and moving to Ottawa in 1951 where they had their first child. The family grew after a move from Ottawa to Thunder Bay and finally settling in Thornhill, Ontario.
Over 10 years John and Ellen became parents to Douglas (Donna), Robert (Christine), Diane (Bruce), Alison (David), and Lorraine (Richard).
Ellen was a dedicated volunteer with several organizations of interest to her including the Association of Engineers Wives in Thunder Bay, After 4 School Programs, Suppers for Seniors at Thornhill United Church, and The Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto where she held executive roles for many years. She enjoyed curling from childhood, as Gimli kids did, and celebrated scoring a highly prized 8-ender at the Thornhill Curling Club in retirement.
Mom’s calm, confident, intelligent, and positive approach to life benefited all of us. She treasured all experiences, both good and bad. She loved her life and her relationships. She saw the good in everyone and everything. She was our greatest cheerleader without telling us what to do. She would help us to see the options and leave the decisions to us.
Believing it was important to be home with her kids each day before and after school, she returned to nursing when we became more independent. The highlight of her career was her more than 20 years as an operating room nurse at the Shouldice Hospital in Thornhill, Ontario. Her work colleagues were like family, whom she treasured for many years after retirement.
Ellen was the matriarch and rock of the Gilmore clan that has grown to include 12 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. She would want us to include their names. She was a proud and loving Amma to Rebecca (Patrick), Meghan (Arlen), Cameron (Brittany), Jennica (Matthew), Greydon, Clare (Sam), Michael, Scott (Danielle), Vanessa (Ben), Eric (Emily), Michelle (Joshua), and Alexa (Omri). Ellen was Great-Amma to Ethan, Avery, Emerson, Spencer, Sawyer, Evelyn, Max, Leo, Taylor, Brody, Beckett, Quinn, and Maela.
We’d like to thank the staff at Amica, London where mom enjoyed living for 12 years. Private family arrangements. Cremation followed by interment at York Cemetery, Toronto.
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