Carol Lorraine Cunningham has danced her last dance, sung her last song, golfed her last round, and curled her last stone. Carol passed away at age 83 late evening May 17, 2022 with extended family and caregivers at her side, coping as best they could.
Born and raised in Kamloops, Carol was a beacon of happiness, good humour, laughter and smiles. In keeping with her outgoing personality, Carol had many life-long friends; you know who you are. She spoke of you often and loved you dearly. Everywhere she went, everyone became her friend. She was voted Kamloops Miss Valentine in1957. Her grandchildren and caregivers called her "Cee Cee".
Leaving Kamloops in her early twenties, Carol moved to Dawson Creek where she lived, worked and raised sons Marty and Cory, and daughter, Natalie. She returned to Kamloops where she worked at Cariboo College. There she met and married Wayne Cunningham. To pursue new challenges, they moved to Regina where Wayne worked with the Saskatchewan Arts Board and Carol worked on her golfing and curling skills. Returning to BC, they settled in Cranbrook, he at East Kootenay Community College, now College of the Rockies, she at the local golf courses and curling rinks, all the time making new friends. On Wayne's retirement from EKCC they returned to Kamloops, to families and former friends and familiar links and rinks.
Carol was predeceased by her parents, J.W. "Bill" and Hazel Haines her second son, Cory, several aunts and uncles, and niece, baby Julie Hansen. Carol's brother-in-law, Ted Hansen, recently succumbed to Alzheimer's, as she did.
Carol is survived by husband, Wayne, son, Marty Gaylie (Julie Dionne), and his sons, Nathaniel (Paige Badminton) and Joshua; her daughter, Natalie Peters (Rod) and their daughters, Nikkita Johansson( Brian) and Netanya (Evan Haulk); her granddaughter Jami Pilkington (Grant) and their boys, Hayden and Brandon and Jami's daughter, Hailey, and Hailey's daughter, Iola, the great-great-granddaughter Carol never got to hold. Also mourning her loss are Wayne's family by a previous marriage; Valerie Hoiland and her son, Tony; Elizabeth Cunningham (Larry Johnson) and her son Isaac Cunningham; and Richard Cunningham (Joy) and their daughters Zanne and Sarah. Carol's sister Nadeane Hansen, her four boys Robb (Betty-Sue), Mark (Margaret), Dean (Jacquie), Matthew (Juliet) and their families are in mourning along with aunts Leona and Yolly Wilcox and Mryna Hasbon (Peter) and their families.
Wayne's memories of Carol are stirred by the songs she loved to sing; Marty's by the photographs he took of her. To her very last breath, Carol amazed her family, and caregivers with her tenacity in repelling the ravages of Alzheimer's Dementia.
Garry William Hogg died in June 2021. He was survived by wife Doris, sons Randy (Cynthia), Brad (Anne), Terry (Sandra), daughter Jamie (Matt), grandchildren: Tyler, Stacey, Kim (Dave), Nikki (Javier), Brian, Erin (Darcy), Amy (Moises), Austin, great-grandchildren: David, Rebecca, Natalie, Eleanora, Lucia, Hazel, Gemma, Addison, step-granddaughter Dawn and her son Owen, many nieces, nephews and in-laws. Predeceased by his parents William Gibson and Evelyn Hogg, sisters Joyce Langlois, Marilyn Blankenship and nephew Ricky Langlois.
Born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, moved to BC in 1940. In 1947 his parents moved the family to Heffley Creek where Gary lived most of his life. His career of Carpenter Superintendent took him to many communities in BC, but eventually it brought him back to Heffley Creek in 1962 where he left building legacies in City of Kamloops. Most proud project was the building of the Dick Hart Park.
His hobbies included coaching his sons in hockey, Balco fastball team, and hockey team, fishing, hunting, tying of own flies, canoe racing, and building of fly fishing boats for friends.
