GUYATT, Richard Glenn, BA Sc., BA Ed - A proud and gentle man, Glenn passed peacefully in the late evening of September 13, 2019.
He was the beloved husband of Doris Guyatt and the dearly loved father of Richard and his wife Evelyn, Leslie and her husband Stephen, Neil and his wife Marlene, and Alan and his wife Ruth.
Glenn was quietly proud of his four grandchildren, April, Christine, Jack, and Derek.
He is also survived by his sisters-in-law, Blanka Guyatt and Doris Sloan Guyatt, as well as numerous nephews and nieces of the Guyatt clan, all of whom he held dear.
He was predeceased by his parents, his wife of 61 years, and his three siblings: Grace, John and Gordon. Glenn enrolled in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940, serving with distinction and attaining the rank of Corporal.
He served within the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan at Air Bases in Greenwood, Nova Scotia and Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he trained as an aero-engine technician, servicing and flying as a test technician on Hurricane and Mosquito Bomber aircrafts. Immediately after demobilization in 1945, he attended the University of Western Ontario, where he met his future wife.
A gifted teacher, after graduation in 1949, he began his professional career in a one room school house in a rural community near Hamilton, Ontario.
Glenn never lost his love of flying, acquiring his pilot license in 1984, flying Cessna 172 aircraft out of the Buttonville Municipal Airport. He built his own Ultralight air plane in 1986, along with a hangar to house it at the cottage.
In accordance with his wishes, cremation has taken place.
The family pays great tribute to the staff of the Canterbury Gardens Retirement Residence and to those of Kane-Jerrett Funeral Home, Thornhill. Their care and kindness is greatly appreciated and will be remembered by all the family.
If friends so desire, a donation in Glenn's name to the either the Sunnybrook Hospital Health Sciences Centre - Odette Cancer Program or to the Toronto General Hospital - Peter Munk Cardiac Centre would be greatly appreciated by the family.
A celebration of Glenn's life will be held on Saturday, October 26, 2019 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Kane-Jerrett Funeral Home, 8088 Yonge Street, Thornhill.
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