1. message original:

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avec text d’intro: C’est avec grande tristesse que mon amour nous as laissé aujourd’hui. Elle avait une grande créativité artistique. Elle s’est inspirée de mon grand père Chainey pour commencer à tricoter. Kelly étais une tricoteuse fière en publique, sur l’autobus, au club de curling, tout partout. On fréquentais tous les festivals de laine de la région et Kelly étais une grande supportrice de la communauté artistique.

It is with great sadness and sorrow that my best friend and soul mate has left us today. Kelly was the love of my life. She was my biggest fan. She was a devoted Aunt to Sofia and Leah, sister to Amy and daughter to Marvia. She was brilliant. She was a great observer of the world around her. She taught me to look up at the sky and be amazed. If you see a cloud that looks like a bunny, that’s her way of winking at you.

2. message knitting: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10158427477198318&set=pcb.10158427496308318

Kelly has long been associated with knitting everywhere she went. From work, public transportation, watching as many curling games as she could, or at home, Kelly was happiest when she was knitting. She was the poster child for knitting in public.

When she joined the Ottawa Knitting Guild (https://www.ottawaknittingguild.ca), she was delighted - she had found her people. It took a bit of time to feel accepted but when she took a leap of faith and decided to join the executive as the newsletter editor/coordinator, she put her heart and soul into putting these together. She loved to express her creative side with her set-up of the photos for the front page of each newsletter. It was beautiful to watch her design these photos. The newsletter was also a wonderful outlet for her writing - there's a few longer pieces that she called 'String Theory' as an hommage to our favorite TV show - the Big Bang Theory. It meant so much to me to see her so happy. She put so much energy and late nights into each one. I've summarized all of her contributions to the 21 newsletter editions that she coordinated between Sept 2018 to Jan 2021 - see attached photos.

Kelly's virtual memorial celebration will take place on zoom Sunday June 6 @ 3pm. There will be fireworks! Details will be shared once available.

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Some of our happiest moments was at the cottage. This was Kelly's parent's cottage that had been built in the 40s and purchased by Marvia's mother - a 1 room log cabin on a 1 acre island at Mayo Lake close to Bancroft. Kelly first went to the cottage as an infant and it was always a place of renewal and comfort. A place away from it all, with no cell coverage, no internet, no power, no electricity, no plumbing but with everything important that we needed.

Here are a few photos to provide a glimpse of this place and what it meant to Kelly.

4. mariage https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10158405539043318&set=pcb.10158405562898318

Aujourd'hui, c'est notre 21e anniversaire de mariage. Quelle belle aventure on as fait ensemble.

I never quite realized until much later the heresy of joining the 2 solitudes we had committed together. It was an honour to be married by the great Jim Christie, Kelly's childhood United Church minister that counted Canadian cardinals as friends and charmed my mother with talk of his private audiences with the Pope in a fluent French.