Times Colonist from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • 55

COLONIST timescolonist.com SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2010 D7 REMEMBERING www.remembering.ca DEATHS and FUNERALS (July 27,1978 February 19, 2010) ELLINGSEN, Emily Myra Gwen Woolley) Emily Ellingsen passed away peacefully at sunrise on the morning of February 19, 2010, playing her final carefully timed move in a three-year fight against cervical cancer. Emily is survived by her loving family husband Aaron: parents John Woolley, Marion Bennet Cragg), Pam Fraser, Tom Bennet and Rick Strassman; parents-inlaw Andy and Susan Ellingsen; siblings Myann and Jack: nieces Fairahn and Mira: aunt Suzanne Woolley, and aunt Lyla and uncle Vernon Cragg: and best friends Erin Robinsong, Christine Golder and Chloe Gregg. Emily has taught us all lessons on friendship, positivity, understanding. empathy and true love. Emily spent her childhood in Squirrel Cove on Cortes Island in a home built by her parents, and attended elementary school there before moving on to New Mexico and Courtenay for high school, where she graduated from G.P.