Colleen Dianne Hewett
1948 - 2018

Colleen Hewett (nee Weaver), born July 31, 1948 in New Westminster B.C., passed away peacefully in her sleep in Port Moody B.C. on Feb. 8, 2018 with her love Fred by her side.

She grew up as a farm girl, milking cows with Dad in East Delta. Her farm life involved raising PNE prize winning calfs with 4H, and selling potatoes from her family vegetable stand at the East Delta Hall. She fondly remembers riding her horse through the Deas Tunnel before it was paved, and waving to Queen Elizabeth from the same horse as she passed by.

She was the Ladner May Queen in 1958, and graduated from Delta High School in Ladner, where she was an accomplished basketball and volleyball athlete in 1966. After high school she attended Vancouver Vocational School and became a hairdresser working in Vancouver and helping pay Fred’s way through geology at UBC.

In 1972 she and Fred were married and moved to Kamloops B.C. where she worked for BC Tel., and then the family moved to Cassiar B.C. She spent many happy years there and made many lifelong friends, including her best friend Pat. In Cassiar she opened her own Beauty Parlor, and she started a successful dress shop with two close friends.

In 1980 they moved to Coquitlam where she embarked on a successful career in cosmetics with Estee Lauder at Eaton's in Coquitlam Centre. One of her proudest moments was opening the cosmetics counter for Eaton’s at their new Metrotown store, where she retired in 1999.

After retiring, Colleen turned her usual enthusiasm to her new hobby of tennis and made many close friends both on and off the court in Coquitlam, the lower mainland and Maui where she and Fred took winter vacations for 35 years.

Fred and Colleen bought a summer home at Blake Point in the Shuswap in 1994, where she spent many happy summers, and made lasting friendships. As she wished, her ashes will be spread there. Special memories are the daily early morning tennis matches, and celebrating with 2 Stanley Cups on her deck.

She was predeceased by her parents, Marshall and Edna Weaver and her sister Marilyn (Bob). She is survived by her husband and love of 45 years Fred, niece Cindy (Taryn, Spencer) and nephew Rob (Christine, Jeffery, Jacob, Reid).

Special thanks to all the staff at the Crossroads Inlet Centre Hospice, Fraser Health Home Palliative Care, B.C.C.A, and VGH/Eagle Ridge Hospitals for their care and compassion.

A Celebration of Life for Colleen will be held on Thursday May 10th from 2-5 pm at the Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club 3251 Plateau Blvd. in Coquitlam. Please come “casually dressed” & be prepared to laugh & share your Colleen stories with us all. Refreshments will be served.No flowers please. If wished, donations may be made in her memory to the Crossroads Inlet Centre Hospice or the B.C. Cancer Agency.

“She is gone and we will never be the same.”