SHARON ANDREE DRISCOLL

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SHARON ANDREE DRISCOLL

(nee JACQUES)

1942 - 2025

Sharon Andrée Driscoll (née Jacques), 83, died suddenly in London, Ontario on Thursday, May 15, 2025, after a full and joyful life. Sharon was a beautiful person; her natural disposition was a smile. Even with chronic back pain, that smile, humour, strength, and positivity remained until her last breath, with her husband and daughter by her side.

Sharon, alongside two younger siblings, was raised in a loving family in St. Boniface, Manitoba. She always cherished her education at the Winnipeg Sacred Heart School. Richard and Sharon married in Winnipeg on Boxing Day, 1964. An unshakeable devotion would bless them and those around their 61 years of marriage and the four prior years as "besties". Sharon and Richard adored raising three children, starting in Montreal and continuing in London, Ontario. Seven grandchildren basked in Sharon’s devotion to family.

Sharon’s boundless curiosity enhanced her natural ability to teach. Although math was her forte, she taught many subjects, mostly to students in alternate education environments. She started in Flin Flon, MB, where she was younger than some of her students. She went on to teach in Montreal (Sacred Heart School), Toronto (Humewood House), and London (Hardy Geddes House, Bethesda Centre, London Psychiatric Hospital). Sharon had unique ways of inspiring students to learn using current events, controversy, nonsense verse, Shakespeare, math manipulatives and cinema.

In addition to teaching, Sharon loved meeting people in different milieux. She spent countless hours at the Laurentian CAMMAC Music Centre organizing facilities and events, teaching arts and crafts, and once cooking a turkey dinner for 150 people. She volunteered with Canadian newcomers through the London Cross Cultural Learner Centre, bridging cultural, religious, linguistic and age differences with ease. Sharon kept her love of music beating by taking up percussion later in life with the New Horizons Band. Two weeks ago, Sharon decided she was going to learn to play the harp.

With her family, friends and students, Sharon listened without judgment. She did so in an exceptionally warm, calm, and insightful manner. She loved connections, between people, between words, between numbers. All interactions with Sharon, including her nightly family blog posts, were infused with happiness, hope and humour. She made effective use of wordplay, rhyming, intentional adjectives, and literary references, to share her convictions. We give thanks that Sharon always made the world feel like a better place.

Sharon was predeceased by her parents, Mae and Robert Jacques, and by her granddaughter, Erin Driscoll-Davies. Her memory will be cherished by her husband, Richard Driscoll; siblings, Betty (Frank) and Robert (Pam); children: Mike (Anita), Marsha (Greg) and Steve (Violaine); and her grandchildren: Sydney, Arman, Ronan, Shawheen, Olivia and Camino.

Arrangements entrusted to Westview Funeral Home. A private family celebration of her life is planned. Sharon cared deeply for others in need. Memorial donations may be made to the London Community Foundation's "Health and Homeless Fund" at 130 King Street, London, ON N6A 1C5 or a charity of your choice.

For donation information or online condolences, please visit www.westviewfuneralchapel.com

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on May 27, 2025