John Henry Ernest COLBY

OBITUARY JOHN HENRY ERNEST COLBY Peacefully on October 23, 2009 in Knowlton, Quebec in his ninety-third year. Predeceased by his wife Grace Wickenden. Survived by his loving daughters Jocelyn (J. P. St. Pierre) and Jennifer (Alec Holzgang), stepson Glenn Cranker (Maria), Judith Cranker MacPherson, and Nancy Cranker. Loving grandfather to Tracey Lessard (Matt), Ruth Stanton (Brad), Jeff St. Pierre (Leah) and Steven St. Pierre (Samantha); Brenda, Erica, Monica (Fernando), Rebecca, Laura and Philip Holzgang; Alice and Bobby Cranker, Chris and Matt MacPherson and many great-grandchildren and step great-grandchildren. John will be most fondly remembered by his first wife June, his special cousins, Charles, Robert (Gretchen) and Edward (Sara) Colby, Mary Aikins (Allen Slade) and his godson Michael Martin (Judy). John met his first wife June in Scotland while serving on loan with the Royal Navy during WWII. After the war he completed his law degree at McGill and practiced law at the firm which still bears his name, Colby Monet Demers Delage & Crevier. John served for many years on the Council of Trustees of Stanstead College as a director and chairman, created and helped fund a deserving student scholarship and worked tirelessly in fundraising campaigns, for which he received the Trustees Award of Merit. He also supported the Stanstead Historical Society and the Brome Lake Land Foundation. Many thanks to the kind and attentive staff at Manoir Lac Brome in Knowlton. Funeral will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at the Centenary United Church, 479 Dufferin Street, Stanstead Quebec. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Stanstead Historical Society (the Colby-Curtis Museum, John's home where he was born), the Red & White Educational Foundation of Stanstead College or the BMP Foundation of the Brome Missisquoi Perkins Hospital would be greatly appreciated. Published in the Montreal Gazette from 10/28/2009- 11/4/2009