*please note due to privacy reasons Joan's date of birth has been changed just as a precaution.
Thank you to all who have left these beautiful tributes and wonderful stories so we can share in her love for life. It is humbling and heartwarming.
This memorial website was created in memory of our beautiful and beloved, Joan Campbell, 69, born June 1948 and passed away on November 13, 2017. Please feel free to post tributes, stories, photos, and videos to honour her memory and life.
This memorial (Est. November 17, 2017) will grow and blossom the more you visit and share so please continue to contribute as your memories and sentiments come to you now and whenever, by exploring the tabs above and composing a tribute for Joan below, sharing stories, photos and videos.
Dont forget to register in her guest book (the sign in tab at the top of the page so you can post and upload). Thank you very much for being here for her and for us.
A large and heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended the Celebration last Wednesday. What a testament to an amazing lady!
Celebration of Life
November 22, 2017
7 pm. at the Aberfoyle Mill
For all who loved her and her family.
Check back for updates on her wishes for a memorial at the Guelph Aboretum.
Tributes
Leave a tributeA couple days ago I got my tattoo for you, I made it a hummingbird because I know how much you love them and everytime I see one it makes me think of you. I still think of you all the time and I miss you a lot, I wish you could’ve seen me graduate highschool and go off to Guelph, I could’ve seen you way more and we could’ve gone out to lunch or had supper at the house. Plus, Rori is at McMaster now and she’s doing amazing with her engineering, you’d be so proud of her like we all are. I made sure to put a little heart beside the hummingbird so I could remember all the love you gave and so you could know all the love that was given to you. You’ll always be in my heart. I love you gramma<3
I was so pleased to spend time with Joan on side trips, at restaurants, shopping, cooking together and sharing stories and family histories.
I was over 70 years old at the time and it’s not often that you make new friends at that age. I was delighted when we returned to Ontario & our friendship continued .
Two years later we returned to Portugal together and I enjoyed the vacation even more than the first time.We spent some time together every single day for a month with
only a couple of exceptions. Joan was so fun and easy to be around !!!!
I think of Joan often & have so many happy memories through photos, mementos and clothing from our shopping. She was the best shopper ever - she scouted out every
shop and stall in Albufeira and knew where to get anything I wanted to buy or Joan thought I should ( shoes LOL). By the way, I still wear those shoes.
With love to Joan
Carolyn & Doug Smith
Warm wishes - Maria
Special thoughts of you today.......and those so close to you....Doug, Brody, Lindsay and darling grandchildren. Wonderful photos to further stir the memories. So many friends miss you as well.....warm wishes and hugs.
It’s a lovely sunny day. The kind you loved. The leaves are fully out, the lilacs are in full bloom, there is lily of the valley and most importantly here in our Phipps gardens, hundreds beautiful of "forget-me-nots" and we are thinking of you today: Your birthday. Warmest wishes, Maria Phipps
I miss my garden club partner.
However, it only takes moments after viewing those pictures to remember that we can't take more photos, have more hugs and hear her laughter. And we ask, how could that have happened? Warm wishes and thoughts to Doug, Brody, Lindsay and all the family members. Maria Phipps
Love you now and always
and smiling down on me when I do good!
I love you now and always
I love you now and always
I love you know and always!
I love now and always.
I miss you so from my head to my toe
I was the grandfawn and you were the doe
I will forever love you so
And you loved me this I know
I hope you know that I love you so
And I will love you forever from my head to my toe
We are thinking of you each and every day.
Sarah and Jamie
Hold on to all of your wonderful memories and keep the love you shared strong and in your hearts forever.
Our thoughts are with you and your family during these hard times.
xo
Julia & Jamie
September of 2010, Boris, Joan, Dianne and I went on a river cruise. We went up on deck together the first night and cruised the river around Budapest with the beautiful buildings all lit up. I remember thinking how lucky I was to experience the wonders of a different country with my husband and my two dearest friends.
Memories are sweet, cherish them.
condolences to Doug and all her loving family and to her many friends and acquaintances. Rest in Peace, Joan.
One year we went to Liz's sister's cottage in Quebec. While we were there we went white water rafting on the Ottawa River. While rafting, Joan was very disappointed that we were not capsized. But the moment did come and after we were hauled back into the raft, Joan was then wishing that it wouldn't happen again. Later that night back at the cottage we received a phone call from Doug. Joan quickly grabbed the phone and went to the bedroom and hid under the covers so we didn't know it was Doug calling. This was a beginning of Doug calling every night while on holidays for the next 25 years. The phone would ring in the evening and we would chant- " Joanie it's Dougie calling." Then we would make kissing sounds.
This is just one of the many memories I have of Joan in the past 39 years. We have travelled, celebrated, cottaged, eaten, drank and laughed together. You will always be in my memories!
Love Dianne
Joan and I became friends while teaching in Aberfoyle. Her teaching excellence and dedication were indisputable. Both as a colleague and friend we shared enjoyable events which continued into retirement. Much frivolity occurred at the cottage, 'doing lunch' and playing bridge.
These fond memories of Joan will remain forever. Joan, you are one in a million.
Leave a Tribute
A couple days ago I got my tattoo for you, I made it a hummingbird because I know how much you love them and everytime I see one it makes me think of you. I still think of you all the time and I miss you a lot, I wish you could’ve seen me graduate highschool and go off to Guelph, I could’ve seen you way more and we could’ve gone out to lunch or had supper at the house. Plus, Rori is at McMaster now and she’s doing amazing with her engineering, you’d be so proud of her like we all are. I made sure to put a little heart beside the hummingbird so I could remember all the love you gave and so you could know all the love that was given to you. You’ll always be in my heart. I love you gramma<3
Time for Work
As you all know Joan was a wonderful teacher by profession. Being a teacher she regularly had the summers off.I would often see her lounging around drinking a cocktail from time to time while I had to go and earn a living.
She would often smile while off to work I went and how lucky she was. My way of dealing with this was at the end of the summer and the night before I would call and remind Joan that it’s time to go back to work. This became a tradition, and she would always expect the call. She would give a big sigh at going back to work and laugh at the reminder.
I only wish I could call and remind her her again and hear her laughing
Dennis and Frances
Always There.
Grandma and Grandpa always show up. No obstacle insurmountable, no distance too great, no time too inconvenient.
And its a good thing too because their grandkids could be anywhere doing anything. Recently the drive to Cornwall (5 hrs) was almost the shortest distance for Grandma hugs; the closest being 17 minutes to the Guelph residence of three ridicuously cute grandkiddies, the furthest being Oslo the home of the newest addition, and somewhere in the middle (time-wise) is Clagary, an established stronghold of G and G visits.
To go see the Cornwall clan, however, is usually a three or four day adventure in always uncertain drving conditions on the notorious 401 eastbound. Grandpa loves the traffic, Grandma not so much. But she braved it nonetheless, regularly heading our way. Nothing was going to stand between her and grandchildren.
G and G have literally driven across the country for child and grandchild. Starting with a north of Superior run in 2004 to Thunder Bay, they've racked up road trips to Pickle Lake, Sioux Lookut and all the way to Calgary for visits. They've seen swim meets as far away as Ottawa, Cornwall and Belleville. Not to mention Brantford, London and everywhere in Toronto. Picking up munchkins in Port Hope for a late summer cottage visit was not out of the question either, but may also have tested their endurance as the round trip is close to 8 hours! But it matters not, they were always there.
Grandma even ventured out on trains (with Aunt Ruth too! and some very inconvenient buses) and planes (a Wasaya Beech 1900D doing the milkrun all over Northwestern Ontario - visiting two fly in reserves and Pickle Lake, again - was a 3 hour trip for Grandma which never even made it to Sioux Lookout because of a thunderstorm - she came up the next day direct on a Bearskin Metroliner). Planes, trains and automobiles, indeed.
Needless to say, these two granparents are the gladiators of getting there, the sultans of showing up, the victors of visitation.
Though occasionally it was the otherway around and the kids came to them, like in the picture above, there was no greater pleasure than seeing their car pull in the driveway with an armload of hugs for the kids...and me.
New Year's Eve for many years
For many years we had marvelous New Year's celebrations with the gang in the photo. We would rotate who hosted, everyone brought food and drink and certainly the ladies loved to dress up. The gang was: Joan & Doug/ David & Maria Phipps/ John & Camille Arnold/ Donna & Chuck Bartliff/ Shirley & Rance Oosterveld/ Barb & Ian Galloway/ my Mom Inge Rakovszky.