Diana JARVIS

PLAYFAIR SHEPARD, Diana At Fairmount Nursing Home in Kingston, Ontario on Friday, 7 Dec 2007. Diana was born in Port Arthur, ON, on May 18, 1939. Her parents, Walter and Mae Jarvis, gave her a happy upbringing, filling the house with friends and piano and singing. She was an excellent student, and became a debater in high school. She taught English, history, geography and even mathematics at high schools in Thunder Bay, Toronto, Ottawa and Kingston, rhetoric at the University of Illinois, debating, writing and speech making at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, and ESL at RMC. Her departure from this world came after a seven year battle with frontal-temporal dementia. She is much loved and missed by Terry, her husband of 45 years, their daughter Katie McCall and her husband Richard, grandson Matthew McCall, their daughter Susan Shepard, her sister Mary Jarvis, her brother Paul Jarvis and his wife Joan, her cousin Sue MacLatchie, and by many other family members and by many friends. Special thanks go to all the caregivers who helped over the years, with those at Fairmount leading the list with the excellent care they provided in the past year and a half. In a category by herself, Natalie Larin sang with Diana almost every morning, much to their mutual delight. A service will be held at St. Mark's Anglican Church in Barriefield at 1 pm on December 20. A gathering in the Parish Hall will follow. Donations may be made to Fairmount Nursing Home, the Hildegarde Centre at Providence Continuing Care Centre, or the Alzheimer Society of Kingston Published in the Ottawa Citizen on 12/15/2007