PENNINGTON, John H. - It is with great sadness we announce the sudden passing of our beloved father, John Hopkins Pennington, on June 23, 2020.
John was born in 1927, in Toronto, son of Charles M. Pennington and Violet G. Pennington (predeceased), and beloved husband of Doris (predeceased).
John was a wonderful father, and leaves a son, Dave (Susan) Pennington, and a daughter, Mary Anne (David) Foreman.
He was the much loved grandfather of Charles (Michelle) Pennington, Catherine (Bryan) Crawford, Alison (Philip) Hawkyard, and six great-grandchildren, Thomas, Kaitlyn and Claire Crawford, Jackson and Benjamin Hawkyard, and Evelyne Pennington.
He will be missed by his nieces and nephews, Suzanne Sheppard, Robert Sheppard, John Sheppard, Anne Galipeau, Lynne Galipeau, their spouses and children, and his wonderful sister-in-law, Jean Galipeau. John grew up in Riverdale, and had fond memories of spending a part of every summer with his parents at Sparrow Lake.
It was at a dance in the early fifties in Toronto, he met our mother Doris Tucker. This chance meeting led to a lifetime of happiness for 58 years, until our mother passed away in 2009.
John lived the last ten years of his life at Humber Heights in Etobicoke. For nine of those ten years, he lived independently.
We would like to thank the caregivers at Humber Heights who looked after our father in his last year of life.
They were kind to him, and did an excellent job under very difficult circumstances.
We are going to miss our father's steady hand, sound advice and wry sense of humour.
We could always count on our father to know what was the right thing to do.
We will miss not being able to ask him.
As per John's wishes, he has been cremated and there will not be a funeral. A celebration of our father's life will be held at a later date.
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