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Neil: The Distinguished Sailor, Vice Commadore, Husband, and Avid Excerciser

As a friend and former fellow excercise class mate back in the 1980's, I was made aware of his retirement from his home in Toronto, and from his membership with The Royal Canadian Yacht Club, both as committee member, as an avid sailor, and as an enthusiastic fitness participatant some years ago. 

It wasn't however until just last summer that, by chance, I was suddenly surprized, shocked and saddened to overhear a conversation between two other fellow RCYC members while being returned to the city station from the island club house that Neil had passed away only months before during the early spring. I had been informed that Neil had died of complications from cancer and diabetes. I'd had no idea he had ever been a diabetic, nor had I known that he had been diagnosed with cancer.

I always knew Neil as being a hard working, dedicated husband and family man with a beautiful wife Susie I had met but once. 

I then learned from Sylia Parsons, the lovely and warm head of swithboard and reception at the city club house that she herself had attended the funeral in Collingwood and that she too was saddened by the death of a man who cared deeply for his friends, his family, his clients during his career at Dominion Securities, and perhaps most of all for his passion for sailing.

He was one of the most informative, helpful, warm,and cheerful men I ever had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know during the better part of my membership in the fitness section at the RCYC.

God bless you Neil and wherever you may be I do hope it is in a far better place than what we have here in this overcrowded and someimes excessively over built city of ours.

Sincerely,

Robert (Pyne) 

 

 

Posted by Robert Pyne
Monday January 8, 2018 at 2:37 am
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