It is with heavy hearts that we share that Valerie passed away at the age of 90, at her home in the Village of Erin Meadows in Mississauga on June 17th, 2024. Valerie was born in Toronto, Ontario to Clarence and Fleuré (Branciere) Jarvis. Valerie resided in Etobicoke almost all her life, attending Lambton-Kingsway JMS and Etobicoke Collegiate before entering the nursing profession at Wellesley Hospital. She graduated with the Class of 1956 and became a registered nurse the same year. She kept in close contact with her nursing classmates, attending many reunions throughout her lifetime.

Valerie married George in the Trinity College Chapel in 1963. They joined the parish of St. George’s on-the-Hill in 1964, where Valerie served as a youth counsellor and as a Director and President of the St. George’s Nursery School.

Valerie had a love of reading, crafts, and cooking. She and George enjoyed many trips to the Caribbean, England and Portugal as well as many years of cottage rentals in Muskoka. She will be most remembered for her various artistic talents. There wasn’t a craft that she didn’t try and excel at, from sewing to knitting to building dollhouses and miniatures. She loved to share her talents and was thrilled to see her daughters and granddaughters carry on her love of creating beautiful things. Her many handicrafts will be lovingly treasured by family and friends.

In recent years Valerie has struggled with increasingly poor mobility and health which constrained her from the activities she so enjoyed. The family would like to thank the wonderful staff who took special care of her at Erin Meadows.

She will be forever loved and deeply missed by many, but most of all by her loving and devoted husband of 60 years, George, her daughters Anne Heath (Andy) and Carol, and her beloved twin granddaughters Sarah and Katie Heath.

The funeral will be held at St. George’s on the Hill, 4600 Dundas Street West, Etobicoke on Monday June 24th, 2024 at 11 a.m. Reception to follow at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Arthritis Society of Canada.