After a long and painful illness, Sheilagh passed away at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital in Goderich. Fiercely proud of her Irish heritage, she was a brave, determined fighter and did not let her many health issues diminish her spirit. Sheilagh is survived by her husband of 47 years Robert Davis of Goderich, her son Kyle (Mari-Beth) and granddaughter Ella of Elora. Lovingly remembered by her long-time friend Carol Hall, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Janet and Rob Heggie and Susan and Thom Pett, many cousins, nieces, nephews and friends both here and in Ireland. She was predeceased by her parents Art and Nellie (Edwards) Dugan of Kitchener and an infant brother. Forty-eight years ago Bob met an interesting, well-travelled, ‘older’ woman who, to his amazement, was also interested in him. He was hooked. They met after he accepted a summer job with the Bank of Nova Scotia where Sheilagh was the second assistant accountant at main branch Kitchener. It was a time before computers and many people were needed then to do the multiple aspects of the accounting job, hence ‘assistant’ not ‘accountant’ and ‘second’ not ‘first’. This lowly administrator in the bank was responsible for paying the lowly summer student hired by main branch Kitchener (but working initially at the branch in Galt). Unfortunately the accountant forgot to tell Sheilagh about the summer student and so a number of weeks went by without him getting his paycheck. Eventually that was sorted out, he was transferred back to main branch Kitchener and met Sheilagh in person, over, as she liked to say, a dollar bill. This was August 1968. By September they were dating and near the end of the month attended a play in Stratford. At intermission, they wandered across the bridge onto the island in the middle of the Avon River and that is where he told her he was going to marry her. Told, not asked! Her response must have been somewhat encouraging but the actual asking didn’t happen until April of the next year when, on the bluffs in Cressman’s Woods overlooking the bend in the Grand River, he popped the question and she said yes. They were married on the 22 August 1969, one year and a couple of weeks after first meeting. It all seems incredibly fast and impulsive now and totally out of character for him. Sheilagh was the spontaneous, adventurous one. He was the careful, plodding planner. Years before, she had transferred her bank job to Lloyd’s of London England and while there, backpacked around Europe with friends. She had taken a ship across the Atlantic and one to Hawaii. He, on the other hand, went in lock-step from high school to university. She was the optimist and he, more of a pessimist or realist. Through their whole marriage these stereotypes held mostly true, with cautious Bob usually yielding to “let’s do it!” Sheilagh. Seldom did she turn out to be wrong. At her urging they managed an eight week camping trip to the west coast, a last minute decision to fly to Britain and Ireland, a train trip to the west, several road trips to PEI, one to BC and one to Florida. Sheilagh had a sixth sense about things, that uncannily proved right more often than not. He learned to trust her instincts and never regretted their decisions. After many years with the Bank of Nova Scotia, Sheilagh used her skills with numbers again as a payroll clerk, first with Dare Foods, then with Wilfrid Laurier University where she stayed until Kyle was born in 1974. Her life as a mother included taking on the responsibility for running, along with friend Doug Horne, a Beaver group Kyle had joined. That commitment eventually turned out to be 24 years volunteering with Scouts Canada as a Beaver leader, Cub leader and Assistant Commissioner for Beavers for North Waterloo. For twelve of those years she organized a district-wide Fall Beaveree, an afternoon of fun, crafts and games for several hundred five to seven year olds. She volunteered again at the Hastings County Museum as an interpreter and guide during the family’s sabbatical year in Belleville. On their return to Kitchener, Kyle’s grade four class at Trillium School benefitted from Sheilagh’s volunteer help. Until recently, Sheilagh liked to be at the forefront of the technological wave, whether that meant an Atari Gaming System in the 70s, a monstrous microwave oven in the 80s (dragged to Belleville and back), or a KindleFire tablet from Amazon in the 10s. Her special place was the cottage at Lakeside where she had spent much of her childhood and where Bob, Sheilagh and Kyle spent most summers. In her youth she thought nothing of swimming the half kilometre across the lake to a variety store then back again. The neighbours there have always been like a second family to her. Sheilagh was a collector –mostly of teddy bears but also decorative tins, Irish Belleek pottery and Royal Doulton figures. When Sheilagh and Bob moved to Goderich, they were warmly welcomed and felt they had come home to where they had always belonged. They built a house with room for Sheilagh’s 80 plus teddy bears. Although health issues held her back to some degree, Sheilagh enthusiastically embraced small town life and managed to make many friends. Sheilagh was a kind, loving, compassionate, understanding, tolerant and generous wife, mother and friend. She enriched the family with her sense of fun and adventurous spirit. We all are better for having loved her and for having been loved by her. She has gone from us far too soon and will be truly missed. Sheilagh’s family will receive relatives and friends at the Henry Walser Funeral Home, 507 Frederick St. Kitchener (519-749-8467) on Friday, July 15, 2016 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Visitation will continue on Saturday, July 16, 2016 from 2 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. The memorial service will be held in the Funeral Home Chapel at 3pm. A reception will follow in the funeral home. Interment Memory Gardens Cemetery on Monday, July 18, 2016 at 11 a.m. As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Kidney Foundation of Canada or the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital would be appreciated by the family. Visit www.henrywalser.com for Sheilagh’s memorial.

Nos plus sincères sympathies à la famille et aux amis de Sheilagh Jane Edwards Davis – 2016.source

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