Gordon Blake Walton went “... gently into that good night“ on October 2, 2009..... at home with his brother Garth by his side after enduring the insults of prostate cancer for 4 years.

Gord was born on March 9, 1946 in Montreal to Jean and Ted Walton. After completing high school he moved back and forth across the country, finally settling on Cortes Island where he spent most of the last 20 years. He lived a serendipitous life filled with friends, music, photography, stained glass and agates, and, of course, cats. Gord looked at life with the kind whimsical humour of someone who holds a precious object in his living fingers, rotating it to see all angles and asking it to inform his being with it's very own unique story.

Left to mourn is his brother, Garth Walton (Kathy Cullen) and nephews Jesse and Michael Walton and special friend, Pam Stewart. Other very dear friends include Eric Donolo, Irene Blueth, Alex Nichol and Dominique Gosling, plus many other friends too numerous to name.

Thank you to Dr. Daniels for your kind care and sense of humour that lightened the burden of Gord’s terminal illness. Thanks also to the home nurses of Campbell River for your support, caring, expertise, and equipment that made living at home possible and comfortable for Gord and for being most necessary sounding boards for us, the caregivers.

And thank you to all the women and men at Campbell River Home Support for doing some of the work that we least liked to do; doing it patiently and gently. And for taking the time to get to know Gord during your visits. It meant a lot to all of us- most especially to Gord. And thanks to the friends who kept us in their thoughts with cards, visits, phone calls and e-mails. Your efforts were precious gifts.

Keeping with Gord’s procrastinating style, a celebration of Gord’s life will be held sometime in the future... probably in the spring of 2010.