PHYLLIS SELKIRK

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PHYLLIS SELKIRK Peacefully at home in Victoria, B.C., on March 27, 2001, after a long battle with Alzheimers Disease. She joins her beloved daughter Patricia and her elder sister Gladys. Phyllis is survived by her loving husband of 47 years, Rennie and their son Roy, his wife Trish and two grandchildren, Adam and Serena. Phyllis was born on December 12, 1919, in Winnipeg, Man., to her parents Annie and Charles Green. She attended Bannatyne School and later Lynnewood High School in Winnipeg with her many neighbourhood friends of Sturgeon Creek. Phyl excelled in sports and enjoyed speed skating and an arousing game of baseball in her usual position as back catcher. As a young adult, Phyl worked as a stenographer at the Credit Bureau in Winnipeg until the war began when she moved to the Department of Transportation to serve in the war effort. Phyllis married her childhood sweetheart, John Rennie Selkirk on June 12, 1953, at Deer Lodge United Church in Winnipeg. The newlyweds then moved to England where they started their family. After ten happy years abroad, Phyl, Rennie and their two young children moved to Montreal where they lived until 1976. Phyllis was always a devoted wife and mother and she took great care in raising two fine children who were her pride and joy. Upon retiring to Victoria in 1976, Phyl remained active in volunteer activities at the Royal Jubilee Hospital where she made numerous friends among the members of the hospitals auxiliary. Phyl always gave of herself in so many ways. All who were fortunate enough to have known her will dearly miss Phyl. Private cremation. FIRST MEMORIAL FUNERAL SERVICES (250) 384-5512

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Mar 29, 2001