Honouring Shawn Harrison

Shawn Harrison, February 21, 1967 - June 21st, 2020.  

Shawn was bigger than life, he was the one you could always count on to get things done.  Always a giver, never a taker.  

In his memory, I'm hoping family,  friends and co-workers can step up and help his wife as his proxy.  It's time to do for Shawn, what he has done for others so many times before.  

I met Shawn in grade 5 and had known him for 42 years.  He was always a shoot from the hip kind of guy, with a rough exterior and a soft interior.  He was the best man at my wedding and my choice to take care of my daughter had something happened to me.  

He met his wife, Kim, young, never loved anyone else and they were set to celebrate 31 years of marriage.  
Kim, their two children, Jennifer and Angie and their granddaughter Peyton were loved to the moon and back.  

As Bryan Adams would say, "everything I do, I do it for you".  

Shawn's primary passion, outside of family was cooking.  Meeting new people from other cultures meant new recipes and he was destined to perfect them.  He loved cooking for other people.  

Amongst the many great things about Shawn was he could swear at you in one breath while helping you build a kitchen.

Shawn died in the early hours of father's day, also the first day of summer.  If there is a positive, it's that he passed in his sleep, next to his beautiful wife of almost 31 years.. As his daughter Angie said to me, there would be no better way to go if you have to go.  

Selfishly, I thought of myself as Shawn's best friend, until I realized just how many people call him their best friend.   In the end, it doesn't matter.  The idea that so many people can love him so deeply and he'd be there for him is what made him great.  I'm sure everyone loved him for different reasons.  

I'm doing what I can to help Kim and the girls through this to help be the rock that he always was to them, and to others.  

This campaign is to help with funeral costs, to ease the burden of losing the primary bread winner since in the short term, money stops coming in, but never stops going out.