Jim was a WWII veteran, eager to join the cause as a teenager and loved his days as a navigator in the RAF. When the war was over, Jim's need for further adventures kicked in and his best friend Pat and he set sail, with the intention of making their way to Chile. They arrived in Halifax in 1949 and then took the train to Toronto.
In 1958 Jim was at AV Roe where he worked on the Avro Arrow, and befriended George Bath. George thought Jim and his sister-in-law Ellen would be good for each other. After dating for 19 days in the spring of 1959, they were engaged and married in September of that same year and were rarely apart for the next 60 years. Jim was a private man, intelligent, warm, funny and a romantic, who marked not just their wedding anniversary but their engagement anniversary as well.
Jim dearly loved his girls Karen and Val, his son-in-law Bill and his five beautiful grandchildren, Brian, Megan, Alyssa, Matthew and Noah. Jim will be deeply missed.
Visitation will take place at the T. Little Funeral Home, 223 Main Street, Cambridge (519-623-1290) on Thursday, March 21, 2019 from 1:00 – 2: 30 p.m. Private burial at New Hope Cemetery.
As expressions of sympathy, donations in Jim’s memory to the McMaster Children’s Hospital would be appreciated by his family.
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