Obituary for Joan Barnes (Wyatt)
In Loving Memory of Joan Barnes [nee Wyatt ]
1929 - 2022
Joan was born to Cornish parents in Kirkland Lake the year the Depression was seizing Canada. She was an ‘A’ High School student and graduated from North Bay Teachers’ College, teaching while still eighteen.
In 1956 she resigned from her position in Kapuskasing, sewed a Canadian flag and a maple leaf on a surplus army rucksack and took her savings to spend a year hitch hiking around Europe. Prior to this she and friends hitch hiked across Canada, an event deemed worthy of a CBC interview.
On her return to Canada, Joan taught in the Sudbury area where she met her future husband, Michael . The couple married in January 1959 and moved first to Wawa, then an isolated town. She gave up teaching to raise their children, Stephen, Alison (Jim), Wesley (Sharla) and grandma of Derek, Joshua and Hunter. After spending most of their life in northern Ontario, the couple moved to Haliburton and Minden to get to see their children more often. Joan loved gardening, the outdoor life and was a quilter.
She died one week shy of her 93rd birthday and after some pain requested Palliative care. She passed away at peace on June 30. Her charity of many years was the Anglican Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund especially for Ukraine Relief. Contact PWRDF, 60 Heyden St., 3rd floor,Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 and can also be arranged through the Gordon A. Monk Funeral Home Ltd. P.O. Box 427, Minden K0M 2K0.
1929 - 2022
Joan was born to Cornish parents in Kirkland Lake the year the Depression was seizing Canada. She was an ‘A’ High School student and graduated from North Bay Teachers’ College, teaching while still eighteen.
In 1956 she resigned from her position in Kapuskasing, sewed a Canadian flag and a maple leaf on a surplus army rucksack and took her savings to spend a year hitch hiking around Europe. Prior to this she and friends hitch hiked across Canada, an event deemed worthy of a CBC interview.
On her return to Canada, Joan taught in the Sudbury area where she met her future husband, Michael . The couple married in January 1959 and moved first to Wawa, then an isolated town. She gave up teaching to raise their children, Stephen, Alison (Jim), Wesley (Sharla) and grandma of Derek, Joshua and Hunter. After spending most of their life in northern Ontario, the couple moved to Haliburton and Minden to get to see their children more often. Joan loved gardening, the outdoor life and was a quilter.
She died one week shy of her 93rd birthday and after some pain requested Palliative care. She passed away at peace on June 30. Her charity of many years was the Anglican Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund especially for Ukraine Relief. Contact PWRDF, 60 Heyden St., 3rd floor,Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 and can also be arranged through the Gordon A. Monk Funeral Home Ltd. P.O. Box 427, Minden K0M 2K0.