[Sundaycommunity] Remembering Sheila

[Catherine Walther]

I don’t know you very well, Luke, but my prayers are with you and your
family and friends in your grief. May your happy memories help you through
this difficult time. Blessings of God’s loving comfort, Catherine

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 6:30 PM contjes contjes via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Dear Sunday Community members,
>
> Sheila Conlin and I are relative “newbies” to the community, having
> discovered it only a dozen or so years ago! (Thanks Jack Costello). We have
> come to truly appreciate the incredible generosity, warmth and intelligence
> that is represented by all of you. Sheila had been struggling with a
> metastatic cancer for a long time, and all treatment options that might
> have slowed it were exhausted last summer. Her health declined to the point
> that she was essentially bed-bound since early December and I have been off
> work to care for her since November.
>
> In recent days she became too weak to stand or even move in bed, though
> she remained lucid and generally pain free. On Sunday she died peacefully
> in her sleep at home. Her main fear was that she would suffer, or require a
> move to hospice or hospital, and thankfully she was spared these.
>
> Seeing death coming is not easy, but it afforded us the opportunity to
> prepare somewhat. A friend has built a beautiful casket out of reclaimed
> wood and Sheila is being waked at home. There will be a funeral mass at St
> Peter’s for family only because of pandemic restrictions. Hopefully we can
> welcome a bigger crowd at her interment, which will happen in a few months
> when a grave can be dug. Please do not send flowers or food, it will
> overwhelm me. I will post a proper obituary or a link when it exists.
>
> Thanks everyone for your prayers and warm wishes.
>
> Luke Wintjes
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Patricia Smiley via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca>
> Date: February 22, 2021 at 2:55 PM
>
> I gather from these emails that an announcement was made yesterday during
> our Zoom mass (which I missed) about Sheila's death. There may be people
> from our newer Zoom community who didn't know Sheila. Could somebody who is
> more in the know than I am compose a brief obit and send it to the
> Community list? It also ,might be useful to our "alumnae" who remember
> Sheila and Luke's involvement. I, too, will find an ecard and send it to
> Luke. (I'm not sure he is big on computer use.)
>
> Thanks P.
>
>
> *Patricia Smiley*
>
> *email: smileypatricia76 at gmail.com <smileypatricia76 at gmail.com>*
>
> *mobile: 647-517-1599*
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:39 AM Elizabeth Whelan via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Roswita. I sent a card and note to Luke yesterday.
> Liz
> Elizabeth
>
> On Feb 22, 2021, at 8:12 AM, Rose Anderson via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
>
> Friends,
>
> I would like to suggest a way for us as a community to remember Sheila. I
> would invite people to send me your memories of Sheila, along with your
> name. I will then copy and paste the submissions into a Word document and
> put it inside a sympathy card which I will send Luke.
>
> Please let me know if you are interested and then kindly send me your
> submissions before the end of the week.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Roswita
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