Clarke, Elsa Marion (McLeod)

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Elsa Marion Clarke (McLeod) Born December 15. 1927. Died Friday, March 17, 2017.

It’s with much sadness in our hearts that we share the passing of our mom, Elsa Marion Clarke. Those who loved Mom, and there are many, treasure the dignity, love and loyalty with which she lived her life. Mom experienced joy and sadness and loss in her life. She relied on her Christian faith and love of family and friends to help her through the losses of her first husband, Jack Hartle (1951) and their son Jack Hartle Eakins (2011) and granddaughter Megan (2012) and husband James (Peter) Edwin Eakins (1975) and their son James Warner Eakins (2009) and her brother Ronald Stuart McLeod (2013). In 1977, Mom married the love of her life, George Franklin Clarke. For 30 years they were the centre and core of Clarke, McLeod, and Eakins families. For retirement, they split their time between life in Toronto and up at Skye, a beautiful country home on Niagara Escarpment near Creemore. They gardened, golfed, planted trees, hosted family gatherings and involved themselves in village life. Those of us left to grieve and celebrate her life include her brothers Roderick (Sue) and Norman (Joyce), son Gray and his family (Alana, Oliver, and Matthew), daughter Elizabeth and her family (James, Gray, and Mary), granddaughter Caitlin, and grandsons, Lee, and Jesse. Mom was loved and adored by nieces and nephews from her Mcleod and Eakins families. In Mom’s later years, she faced the challenge of Alzheimer’s. She did this with courage, faith, and family and the support of her dear Evelyn, and cousin Jane. We would like to thank Mom’s care and nursing team on the Reminiscence Unit at Sunrise Living in Thornhill for their compassionate, professional care of Mom, during her last year and last week. You exemplify the love, programming and dignity that is needed to support those living with Alzheimers. A visitation, service and prayers of committal were held at Grace on the Hill Anglican Church, 300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto, Ontario on Wednesday, March 22, 2017. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Alzheimer’s Society would be appreciated.

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