Graydon Boyes
November 14, 1937 – August 4, 2024
We’re deeply saddened to announce that Graydon handed away at Andy’s Home Hospice, on August 4, 2024, along with his loving spouse of just about 60 years, and his three youngsters by his facet.
His final days have been full of affection and laughter, tales and songs as he loved the various visits and calls from his innumerable family and friends members.
Graydon is survived by his spouse Irene, his youngsters Jonathan & Shelley, Susan & Chris and Jason & Jeanette and his grandchildren Jordan, Victoria, Josh, Adam, Lila, Hannah, Charlotte and Graydon. He was predeceased by his siblings Religion, Trevor, Neil and Malcolm and might be enormously missed by the youthful siblings Gwen & Jim, Liz & Garth, Ian & Bonnie, and his expensive in-laws, George, Mary Jean, Betty-Kay and Lee and his many nieces and nephews.
Graydon grew up in Vankoughnet, attended Bracebridge Highschool and graduated from UofT along with his Phys. Ed. degree. He pursued a profession educating highschool and training soccer and basketball. Finally he returned to his roots and started his building, logging and saw-milling years, plus constructing and working a summer season camp for kids. In his “spare” time he and Irene owned and operated a campground for 43 years. His dream of a youngsters’s camp continues right now as Camp Wenonah carries on his legacy. Hundreds of kids all through the world have benefited from the ripple impact of Graydon’s imaginative and prescient.
Graydon was famend for telling considerably tall tales and his savant like reminiscence for names, native family tree and poetry. He cherished a superb joke and was typically identified to quiz these in ear shot on area of interest Canadian and NHL trivia. He was an avid participant in household video games, virtually unbeatable at Scrabble and crokinole and the supply of many extremely contested Scattergories solutions. He loved music, calling at sq. dances, studying, jig-saw puzzles, riddles, making maple syrup, oil portray, answering letters on Santa’s behalf, amassing logging artifacts and late evening talks across the kitchen desk.
He had a deep love of the outside and sometimes hiked hours looking for the right Christmas tree, or to identify the primary signal of mayflowers and wild leeks within the Spring. He knew each tree by its bark and by no means misplaced his approach. He cherished a superb winter cookout within the bush, canoeing and yearly maintained an unwavering religion in his beloved Leafs.
At Christmas he all the time took nice pleasure in his many, many, many, decorations – solely glad when each nook and cranny, indoor and out, was prepped for Santa’s arrival. Solely his sister Gwen can compete on that entrance.
Graydon was a person of nice religion who served as an elder at St. David’s for nearly 50 years. He cherished to sing the previous hymns across the piano and knew all of them by coronary heart.
He was keen about historical past, particularly relating to the Boyes household, native logging and his beloved St. David’s church. To protect this information for future generations he wrote a number of books with the final one accomplished and on the printers now.
We wish to categorical our heartfelt because of Dr. Mittal for her fixed and compassionate care over time. Additionally thanks for the superb care and kindness proven throughout his current keep at SMMH. The docs, nurses and aides have been excellent – particular because of Dr. Jones and Pleasure.
We might be ceaselessly grateful for the unbelievable care supplied by the workers and volunteers at Andy’s Home. They went above and past to make Dad and all of us, as snug as potential throughout a troublesome time.
In lieu of flowers please think about a donation to the St. David’s Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund (for his dream of an accessible washroom) or to Andy’s Home Hospice.
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Subject: Graydon Dougald Boyes Funeral Service @ St. David’s Presbyterian Church, Vankoughnet Time: Aug 13, 2024, 12:45 PM America/Toronto
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