Obituary of Peggy Way
WAY, PEGGY (nee FORD) Died suddenly but peacefully March 1, 2006 at Northumberland Hills Hospital, Cobourg, Ontario. Peggy is survived by her loving son Graham Abraham from her first marriage in 1946 to Lieutenant Colonel Reg Abraham (d.1962), her daughter-in-law Wenda Thomson and her two grandsons Damian and Tristan Abraham. She also leaves two step-daughters from her second marriage in 1966 to Colonel Gordon Way (d.1998), Elizabeth Mundell and Margaret Paulissen, and two grandchildren Trevor and Wendy Paulissen. Peggy was born, the youngest of six children, in Wood Green, North London, England in 1915. During World War II she worked in The City of London during the day and every night as a volunteer fire watcher on the roofs of the bomb ravaged buildings of that city during the Blitz. (Probably as a result of this, there were few things that would subsequently faze her!) After the war she moved to Canada with her first husband and fell in love with the country soon becoming a citizen while still managing to remain to all appearances quintessentially English. On the death of her husband and a brief stay back in her homeland she returned to live in Ottawa with her second husband where they remained until his death in 1998. Peggy loved the outdoors and exercise. In fact one of her greatest regrets was having to slow down when she broke her hip, at the age of 80, as a result of falling off her ten-speed bike while on vacation in Florida. After moving from Toronto, the last three years of her life were spent with Graham and Wenda, along with her two beloved cats Ben and Belle, in Port Hope, Ontario a town that she loved. Peggy survived most of her generation but she will be sorely missed by the generations that have followed. A Memorial Service will be held at the Allison Funeral Home, www.allisonfuneralhome.com, 103 Mill Street North, Port Hope, Ontario, Sunday at 2:30 pm. Sleep well Mum.