Condolence From: Henry Walser Funeral Home Team
Condolence: As the year passes, we are remembering with you.
Henry Walser Funeral Home Team
Thursday November 28, 2019
Condolence From: Christine Forand
Condolence: I think of Sheila and all of you very often. Her magnets are all over our place ! Her memory is as well. I was graced to have her be an important part of my late teen/early adult life. Wish I had still been in KW later on to continue seeing her and Dwyer more regularly. Marisol loved spending time with you all at Camp Micah. I didn't know Sheila loved to swim so much. It's also my favourite summer activity and I now bring her with me on my river and lake swims, Love you all, Christine Forand
Thursday November 21, 2019
Condolence From: Patricia De Amorim (Hawley)
Condolence: Sheila left an incredible impact on everyone she met. God must have known she would do everything she could to make this world a better place and indeed she did! Sheila pushed her students everyday and treated them like her own children. Your joy for life lives forever in the lives you touched. Rest in peace, Sheila! Deepest sympathy to all the family.
Saturday December 29, 2018
Condolence From: Jane and Doug Pritchard
Condolence: So sorry to hear of Sheila's passing. She was an amazing woman and such a positive force for justice and change. We will miss her dearly on the streets, in the church, and in our homes.
Tuesday December 04, 2018
Condolence From: Ronald Adamcyk
Condolence: Around 1955, as a student of St. Michael’s Choir School, I had the good fortune to be asked to provide the vocals for a wedding in the town of St. Marys. Paul Murphy was the organist. I say "good fortune" because I stayed with the Murphy family; and it is at that time that I met Sheila. She was then the hint of everything that Dwyer describes; in particular, she had her mother’s love of laughter. To Dwyer, Paul and the Murphy family, my sincere condolences.
Tuesday December 04, 2018
Condolence From: Ben Salvatore
Condolence: My deepest sympathies to you Dwyer in the loss of your lovely Sheila. She was the epitome of love, spirit and generosity. Wonderful that you had all those years together to devote to one another and to your very extensive family, as well as the great needs of this world for compassion, justice and peace. My best to you as you carry on with
you own generous spirit which you consistently put forth.
Monday December 03, 2018
Condolence From: Murray & Linda Lumley
Condolence: I mostly knew Sheila from meeting her whenever she and Dwyer travelled to Toronto to attend the Good Friday Walk for Justice, Peace and Justice Retreats at Catholic high schools and other events that reflected their caring nature. We are very sad at the sudden loss of Sheila to Dwyer, her children, grandchildren and to so many people whose lives Sheila and Dwyer have touched, but there is gladness in knowing of a life of sacrifice and concern for others and the Earth she loved.
Sunday December 02, 2018
Condolence From: Linda Moffatt
Condolence: Dwyer my heart goes out to your and your family. From university days, to hiking in the mountain, to your wedding day, you both have been touchstones in my life.
Sheila was like a big sister to me. I loved her feisty spirit, her thirst for life and the desire for fairness. I will miss that twinkle in her eyes but I know that her spirit lives on through her family and through her extended family of friends. Sending our love Alice and Linda
Sunday December 02, 2018
Condolence From: Tim O'Connor
Condolence: For me, Sheila was a pillar. I met her at Columbus Boys Camp almost 40 years ago, and became one of so many who were unconditionally welcomed into her home and into her family.
Our time together since then has included summers at three different camps, countless weddings and baptisms, protests for peace and justice, and a pilgrimage to Palestine. You have been a constant for me in these memorable life experiences.
As I reflect back today, I realize that I have spent more time in the Sullivan home than in any other home other than my own. Sheila had a way of making you feel "at home" in her presence. Her home was our home - and that is a reality that can be verified by so many others who will celebrate your life in the coming weeks.
I will miss that infectious laugh and that spirit of hospitality. The world seemed a little emptier earlier this week, but the visitation changed that for me. That laughter and hospitality filled the room as your family greeted guests with the grace and the warmth that so defines each of them. I left understanding that you have left your mark on so many people - and I am confident that your love will continue to touch others through those you have touched.
Grace.
A friend consoled me this week with the idea that you were going to a better place - an idea that people of faith often put forward at moments of loss. If "Heaven" could have the warmth, laughter and love of the Sullivan house - it truly would be a magical place. If my own journey ever takes me to such a place, I know I will hear you laughing.
At Columbus Boys' Camp, we were taught that we stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before us. You have lifted us up, Sheila Sullivan. I am still sad; but I also feel blessed.
Thank-you.
Saturday December 01, 2018
Condolence From: Suzanne Ropitzky & Kevin Anderson
Condolence: "We miss you, Sheila, and we love you. We believe that somehow you are in the midst of the mystery of the eternal, that nothing of you is truly lost, that somehow, in some amazing way, our love reaches you and embraces you ... and that you are in a place where somehow all the struggle, and all the hurt makes sense ... and your laughter remains a beacon to all who will one day follow."
Friday November 30, 2018
