In Celebration of

Sherrill Arlene Shaver

Sherrill Arlene Shaver
June 26, 1956-July 11, 2017

Died peacefully in Cambridge, Ontario. Arlene is survived by her two children, Adriane Grace (Kris Holtom) of Cambridge and Riley Arnold of Deep River. She was predeceased in March by her husband of 35 years, Michael Zeller. She is also survived by her mother, Sherrill, her sister Andrea (Benoit Long), her brothers Wesley and Rev. Brock Shaver, nephews Peter, Adam and Etienne, and nieces Kelly, Katie and Genevieve, and her great-niece Raina.

Arlene was born in Wiarton, Ontario, the first child of Rev. Bill and Sherrill (Tuggey) Shaver. She graduated from Victoria College, University of Toronto, in 1979 with a degree in English literature. She had a lifelong love of music. She met and married Michael shortly thereafter and moved with him first to Kingston and then to northern Ontario, where she raised their two children and he pursued a career as a nuclear physicist at AECL in Chalk River.

The funeral will take place at 11:00 am on Saturday, July 15th at Bay Gardens Funeral Chapel, 947 Rymal Road East in Hamilton with visitation beginning at 10:00 am and a reception following the service. Interment will take place at 2:00 pm at Bethesda United Church Cemetery, 542 Garner Road in Ancaster. Michael's ashes will be interred at the same time. Donations in memory of Arlene can be made to the Hemo Dialysis Unit at Victoria Hospital in Renfrew, Ontario.

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Andrea Shaver (sister)

Entered August 5, 2017 from Ottawa

It has been hard to see Arlene's health deteriorate, especially over the past two years but I'm happy she is at peace and that she and Michael rest beside our father and that I have so many good memories to look back on in years to come.

We had a lot of fun growing up, two sisters and two brothers, close in age, spending a month every summer in Quebec, and within the United Church, where our father worked. She loved fishing in the brook behind the house in Metis in the summer, reading English literature, her friends, but her children, Adriane and Riley, most of all. She and Michael loved each other for more than 35 years, spending holidays at cottages, and hosting visitors. While they lived most of that time in the small eastern Ontario town of Deep River, she loved going to Toronto where she'd graduated from university and been active socially in the late seventies. Quiet by nature and a lovely pianist, tailor and cook when she wanted to be, a university friend once told me, "Arlene doesn't say much, but what she says is worthwhile." She drew insight and energy from her relationships and surroundings and raised two beautiful children of whom she and Michael were very proud. We were lucky to have had her in our lives.



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