Obituary for Sandra Jean Williamson
Sandra passed away (84) after a long battle with Cancer on March 26, 2023. Born on March 4, 1939 in Vernon, BC daughter of Jean McLuckie (neé Dobson) and Alan McLuckie. Predeceased by her beloved daughter Kim and grandson Daniel. Mourned by her partner Garth Chorney, sons Shawn (Betty) and Ian (Tamara), grandchildren Ben (Brittany, great grandson Lincoln Salisbury), Joey, Aidan, Jonah and Ella, brother Wayne, nieces Denis, Dawn, and Rachel and nephew Nathan.
Sandra’s father was a trainer for the Canadian Air Force and she lived her formative years growing up during WWII in the Okanagan, Saskatchewan, and summers at her grandfather’s cottage at Grantham’s Landing on the Sunshine Coast.
Sandra spent her entire career working as a nurse. She attended and graduated school from the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1960 (September class). She worked in hospitals in Vancouver and Montreal and as an industrial health nurse. Near the end of Sandra's career, she started and supervised two respite programs that matched caregivers with medically fragile children in the community. She enjoyed her continuing connection with the VGH School of Nursing Alumni Association.
Sandra met Mike in 1963 and they had three children (Shawn, Kim and Ian). Sandra met Garth in 1981 while working at Kenworth. Their love affair would last the rest of her life. She loved to pass her time flying kites on a windy Sunday in Vanier Park and taking her kids for adventures at Cates Park in North Vancouver. In the early 70s, as a single liberated mother, she was at the cusp of a growing woman’s equal rights movement.
She took her kids on a memorable month in Hawaii in August 1980 and she fulfilled a lifelong passion to travel after retiring in 2005. She lived a life of adventure with her love Garth travelling to the Scottish Isles, Ethiopia, Easter Island, French Polynesia by freighter, and taking the Trans-Siberian Railway.
She enjoyed her connection to her neighbourhood and community. She nurtured all who knew her and was quick to find the positive. She will be fondly remembered as the neighbourhood matriarch, dispensing good advice and reaffirming your self-esteem.
A Celebration of Life will take place on Saturday, June 3, 2023 between 12pm – 2pm in Vancouver at the Bridge Studios. Please contact Shawn at shawn@brightlightpictures.com or at (604) 628-2996 if you are able to attend.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Cancer Society of BC would be gratefully accepted. The family wishes to express its gratitude to our neighbour Sue Mole for her undying love and support and the many friends and family that came to visit her while Sandra began her final journey and where she spent her last days.
Sandra’s father was a trainer for the Canadian Air Force and she lived her formative years growing up during WWII in the Okanagan, Saskatchewan, and summers at her grandfather’s cottage at Grantham’s Landing on the Sunshine Coast.
Sandra spent her entire career working as a nurse. She attended and graduated school from the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1960 (September class). She worked in hospitals in Vancouver and Montreal and as an industrial health nurse. Near the end of Sandra's career, she started and supervised two respite programs that matched caregivers with medically fragile children in the community. She enjoyed her continuing connection with the VGH School of Nursing Alumni Association.
Sandra met Mike in 1963 and they had three children (Shawn, Kim and Ian). Sandra met Garth in 1981 while working at Kenworth. Their love affair would last the rest of her life. She loved to pass her time flying kites on a windy Sunday in Vanier Park and taking her kids for adventures at Cates Park in North Vancouver. In the early 70s, as a single liberated mother, she was at the cusp of a growing woman’s equal rights movement.
She took her kids on a memorable month in Hawaii in August 1980 and she fulfilled a lifelong passion to travel after retiring in 2005. She lived a life of adventure with her love Garth travelling to the Scottish Isles, Ethiopia, Easter Island, French Polynesia by freighter, and taking the Trans-Siberian Railway.
She enjoyed her connection to her neighbourhood and community. She nurtured all who knew her and was quick to find the positive. She will be fondly remembered as the neighbourhood matriarch, dispensing good advice and reaffirming your self-esteem.
A Celebration of Life will take place on Saturday, June 3, 2023 between 12pm – 2pm in Vancouver at the Bridge Studios. Please contact Shawn at shawn@brightlightpictures.com or at (604) 628-2996 if you are able to attend.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Cancer Society of BC would be gratefully accepted. The family wishes to express its gratitude to our neighbour Sue Mole for her undying love and support and the many friends and family that came to visit her while Sandra began her final journey and where she spent her last days.