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SPRAGUE, Lois J. (nee Stokes)

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19810328 Lois at 50 relaxed on Copacabana Beach, Rio[1921] - Copy

B.Sc., B.Ed.

1930 Dec 24 – 2020 Mar 20

Lois (nee Stokes) was a fifth-generation Canadian born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. She died rapidly in Lady Minto/Gulf Islands Hospital on Salt Spring Island, BC from severe secondary effects of a long-standing heart problem. Husband John was at her side and appreciates the excellent care given by the hospital staff. Lois and John were married for 66 years and for four years previously they were lab partners at university. Lois leaves 5 children, 5 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren. She kept life-long loving contact with all the children. As well as raising that family, Lois was a public-school teacher for 20 years, at Ottawa Crescent, John McCrae and F.A. Hamilton public schools in Guelph. She loved horses and in middle life enjoyed weekly riding sessions in Ontario, then in Nanaimo B.C while on sabbatical, and went on trail-rides in the Alberta mountains. She also loved swimming, she used the pools in Guelph, Nanaimo and Victoria, and later was faithful at aquafit in the Ganges, Salt Spring Island pool. Lois and John lived in three provinces coast to coast, and travelled to every province and territory, as well as five continents. They spent one year on their sailboat, wintering in the Gulf of Mexico. The picture shows Lois at age 50 in Rio de Janeiro. Lois was an active proponent and strong supporter of peace and environmental issues. She was chair of the Canadian Club in St. Andrews, NB. She was chair of the Do-It Depot (the first Guelph recycling program started in the 1970s), a member of Voice of Women, Canadian Peace Research Institute and many others. She was a Raging Granny in Ontario and on Salt Spring Island and was a very active volunteer during 25 years on Salt Spring. She volunteered in BC for about a decade each as a teacher’s assistant in the elementary school, a Senior Peer Counsellor, in the Salt Spring library, in the Resources facility of Salt Spring Seniors and then as Secretary of SS Seniors. In later years she enjoyed quilting, and placed colourful quilts with all the family, with friends and friends-of-friends in every province and territory, and in England and U.S.A. Messages may be left with Haywards Funeral Services ([email protected])



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