MORGAN, Gwyn Wellstead - Died on September 19, 2021, very peacefully, together with loved ones and music.
Gwyn was born in May 1940, the first child on his family’s dairy farm in the small village of Resolven, South Wales.
He had memories, as a very young child, of hiding in the dark under the kitchen table with his mother during the rare bombing raids reaching Wales in WWII, and later being part of VE day celebrations on his street in 1945.
He was the eldest of five children, and grew up simultaneously helping on the farm (Pentwyn) and going to school.
Soon (early 1960s) he moved to London to work in the computing divisions of Ford and Honeywell – the dawn of UK computing. He also worked for Honeywell in Paris, France, before being recruited in 1967 to another Honeywell job and settling in Toronto, Canada.
He soon married another Honeywell employee (Sandra Johnson) and started a family, and a few years later daughter Julia and then son Brian were born.
In the 1980s, Gwyn’s marriage ended, and when Bull’s (which had acquired Honeywell) computer division shut down, he continued to work as an IT project manager at Gescou, Bell Sygma and CGI where he was a friend and mentor to many.
He is deeply missed by Julia, Brian, and Kurt, siblings and in-laws Hugh (Pat), Clive (Marcia), and Carmen (Steve); Linda, Gary, Kathleen, and the rest of his cousins in the UK; nieces and nephews Angharad, Delyth, Branwen, Gethin, Gareth, Evan, Huw, and Ceri; Margaret, Meryl, Joseph and Leyre, June, and many others in our extended family.
A Celebration of Life with video option will take place at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, donations to causes Gwyn often supported are appreciated: the Yonge Street Mission or Parkinson Canada.
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