The honorary Colonel Jack Garneau, Sherbrooke Hussars.

Environ 230 personnes se sont rendues à l’église Trinity samedi après-midi à Cookshire pour rendre hommage à Jack Ray Garneau, décédé le 28 octobre des suites de complications liées à une infection incurable.

Bob Halsall a officié la célébration publique de la vie, et des éloges funèbres et hommages ont été prononcés par Charles Smith, Ernie Garbutt, Marcel Charpentier, Kevin McVetty, Bob Halsall, Don et Gladys Parsons, Pauline Thorneloe, ainsi que Michael et Suzanne Garneau.
« Aujourd’hui, nous remercions un conseiller, un modèle, un voisin, mais surtout un homme de cœur », de dire M. Charpentier, conseiller municipal de la Ville de Cookshire-Eaton. « Son engagement laisse une trace durable dans notre municipalité, et sa contribution continuera d’inspirer celles et ceux qui suivront. »

Twinkle in his eye and unforgettable laugh

“Jack had many, many interests,” said Pauline Thorneloe, as recounted by Bob Halsall during the celebration of life on Saturday. “Genealogy was one of his favourites. He loved to let you know how you fit in”—as he indeed did with this journalist on several occasions in my career.
And that is perhaps the prerogative of those who are so deeply rooted and fully involved in their communities.

Jack Garneau was a husband, father, grandfather, teacher, principal, municipal councillor, honorary colonel, active member of many community organizations, and storyteller. “These are just a tip of the iceberg,” wrote Thorneloe.

And behind those many tributes given at Trinity Church on Saturday was “that familiar twinkle in his eye and that unforgettable laugh,” as Kevin McVetty so aptly said of the community leader we lost this fall.