Margaret Louise HICKEY

OBITUARY MARGARET LOUISE (GRAY) KING (NEE HICKEY) December 28, 1912 - August 27, 2005. Passed away peacefully on August 27, 2005, in her ninety-third year, in Cornwall, Ontario. She was predeceased by her beloved husband R.F. (Bob) Gray of forty five years and by her second husband, Harold S. King. Cherished mother to Michael (Anne) and Deborah (Anthony) Campbell, grandmother to Susan (Michael Nazwaski), Andrew (Margie), Timothy and the late David Gray, Matthew (Courtney) Campbell, Megan (Michael) Anderson and Peter Campbell and his fiancee Sarah Kuhn. Her ten great-grandchildren, whose many loving letters and pictures gave "Gommie" such great joy, include Morgan, Hope and Colin Campbell, Michael Nazwaski, Christie, Courtney and Jonathan Gray and Emma, Rory and Harper Anderson. Margaret was born in Montreal, daughter of the late Arthur Empey Hickey born at "Ingleside" and his wife Cora Marjorie Dulmadge born in Brighton, ON. She attended public schools in Bedford and Montreal West and St. Helen's Girls School in Dunham, all in Quebec, before entering McGill then Royal Victoria Hospital nursing where she graduated in 1935. She was a caring wife and mother who spent a seemingly tireless lifetime devoted to her extended Gray and Hickey families and many others, through local associations and the Trinity Anglican Church. She was an ardent United Empire Loyalist, proud of her roots at "Ingleside" the Hickey Homestead, east of Morrisburg and now part of the historical Upper Canada Village. The family wishes , most sincerely, to thank the staff of Sandfield Place in Cornwall for the eleven years of wonderful support and thoughtful considerations extended to Margie and her family. Following cremation, there will be a memorial service in Cornwall followed by burial, in the family plot. Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, the timing for all to be announced. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Margaret will be gratefully received at the Trinity Anglican Church, 105 Second St. West, Cornwall, ON. K6J 1G4 or a charitable organization of your choice. Condolences for the family may be sent to The Gray's Box 645, Gravenhurst, ON. P1P 1T9. Published in the Montreal Gazette on 8/29/2005