JARRETT, Dorothy - Passed away on August 8, 2018 at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital with family and friends around her.
Dorothy was born on July 28, 1921 in Manchester, England.
She served proudly in the Wrens (Women's Royal Navy) in the war, made lifelong friends there, and established herself as a modern and independent woman during those years.
Toward the end of the war she married an officer in the merchant navy, Ken, and together they raised two boys, Michael and Andrew, bringing them to Canada in 1952. Dorothy worked as an Executive Secretary to help the family get established and to pay for her own convertible to drive to work.
She and Ken took up sailing again as the boys grew up and were members of the Oyster Bay Yacht Club, the Hamilton Bay Yacht Club, and the Oakville Yacht Club.
While loving her life in Canada, Dorothy also remained true to her British roots, maintaining friendships there, visiting frequently, keeping up with her Wren magazine subscription, becoming active in the IODE in her later years, and never quite losing her English accent.
She lived in the house that she and Ken bought in West Oakville in 1957 until shortly before her death, a house that continued to be the hub and meeting place for her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Though we mourn her passing, we celebrate her long life and lively spirit.
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