DYCK, Sharilyn Louise - December 2, 1958 - March 16, 2019.
Sharilyn was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, the second child of Ernest and the late Doris. She attended primary and high school in Kitchener, and then studied at University of Guelph, graduating with Bachelor of Applied Science – Consumer Studies.
From early on Sharilyn’s enjoyment of sports was clear. She excelled in ringette and continued to play the sport during her working years as well as serving many years as the registrar for the Markham Women’s Ringette Association. She was also an avid softball player and played for several amateur teams as well as serving the sport, this time in the capacities of President, Past President and more recently, the Equipment Manager of the Markham Women’s Softball Association.
In 1985, Sharilyn moved to Toronto, and thereafter made her life in Toronto and Markham. She worked as coordinator of parking operations for Harbourfront (1985-1996) and in progressively more senior roles in Access Copyright (1997-2012), training and leading staff across Canada for an organization representing Canadian publishers. Since 2012 she has worked as a customer service agent for two organizations.
In addition, Sharilyn ran a small business, Fleece is Your Friend, using her creativity to make whatever she could imagine out of fleece and selling the articles at craft fairs across Ontario. Sharilyn loved to travel, and has left many photo-albums full of memories of those trips, across Canada and the USA. However, probably her greatest adventures were visiting her brother Steve and his wife Margaret in Zimbabwe and Zambia in 1988, a trip to China in 2010 with her long-time friend Mary Blair, and attending a friend’s wedding in Cuba in 2011.
Sharilyn had a wide circle of friends from her sporting activities, as well as from her church involvement. She attended Melrose Baptist Church, Toronto for many years, and for much of that time played on Melrose’s baseball team. She loved the outdoors, and for many years, the sisters and sister-in-law used to camp together one week-end every summer. There were many long weekends at Bon Echo Park with the entire family, and always with Sharilyn as the campsite coordinator.
However, her greatest passion was being an aunt. Sharilyn loved her nieces and nephews, and they loved her. She corresponded with them often, first by phone and later through Facebook, took them to special events, hosted them at her home, and was an important part of their celebrations – birthdays, graduations and the recent marriage of Jeremy. The last time we were together as a family is a happy memory, celebrating her father Ernie’s ninetieth birthday in Kitchener. A few weeks previously, Sharilyn’s 60th birthday was celebrated by all the sisters, Margaret and Mary at a surprise dinner in Toronto. She will be sorely missed by nieces and nephews Jeremy, Stephanie and Gillian; by Peter and Elizabeth; and by Jonathan and Laura, as well as all her other “nieces and nephews” that might not have been blood relations, but may as well have been.
Sharilyn was loved by her sisters Andrea Egilo (Mark) and Anneliese Bochenek (Hank) and her brother Steven (Margaret), and by her father Ernest.
We will deeply miss her presence in our family life.
She will also be deeply missed by her many friends, but in particular, Mary Blair, who for almost thirty years shared a home with Sharilyn, and was as close as a sister.
We have the comfort of knowing that Sharilyn is now in the presence of Jesus, whom she has acknowledged as Saviour since childhood.
Visitation will be held at Chapel Ridge Funeral Home, Markham on Friday, March 22nd, 2019 from 2:00pm - 4:00pm and 7:00pm - 9:00pm. The service will take place in the chapel on Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 at 1:00pm. A reception will follow.
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