Twyla Jean Mees

passed away peacefully at her home in West

Vancouver, British Columbia on May 12, 2021.

Twyla was predeceased by her loving husband,

Mark (Maurits) Mees on February 26, 2021.

Twyla is survived by her loving children, Mark Mees

(Scot Matheson), Marla Ritchie and Carel Mees

(Denise Zunker) and granddaughter, Katie Ritchie

(Shawn Hallgren), as well as first cousins, Cheryl

Froud ( I a n MacLean), Donna Paul S t r e i t ,

Gwendolyn Paul Jamieson, Audrey Froud Wilson,

Margaret Froud (Bob Arnold), John Froud (Pat),

Jeffrey Froud (Pat), Mark Brooks (Gayle), Mary

Lynn Brooks, Sherry Brooks Ostrander (Tom), and

Lisa Brooks Mandel (Danny) and, her nieces

Cynthia Froud-Cook (Bob Cook) and Janet Froud

(Dan Christensen), and many other nieces,

nephews and friends.

Twyla was born in Toronto, Ontario on March 6,

1936 to her parents, Reginald Samuel Froud and

Hazel Kathleen Froud and grew up with her older

brother Larry Gordon Froud in the Riverdale

neighbourhood in East Toronto. Twyla and Larry

would often spend their summers with their many

cousins and friends living in and around the small

town of Springfield in southwestern Ontario.

Among the notable life-long friends were Bob Plato

and Joyce Nesbitt.

Twyla met her husband Mark in Toronto, and they

married on March 2, 1957. The couple lived on

Kingston Road, and later in Thorncliffe Park, finally

purchasing their first home in Willowdale in 1964.

The couple had their first son, Mark, in June 1959,

who was followed by h i s sister, Marla, i n

September 1962 and finally by their second son,

Carel, in January 1964.

The family moved to North Vancouver, BC in

January 1968 as husband Mark pursued a career

opportunity with United Dominions. These career

opportunities later took the family to Beaconsfield,

QC in December 1973 and then back to West

Vancouver, BC in June 1976, where Twyla and

Mark remained in their family home until both their

passing this year.

Twyla was also predeceased by her father

Reginald in 1962, her mother Kathleen in 2003, her

brother Larry in 2013 and his wife Helen Naumoff

Froud in 2012.

After 64 years of marriage, Twyla and Mark will be

interred together when safe to bring family and

friends together, at the Springfield (ON) cemetery

to be followed by a Celebration of both their Lives.

If friends and family so desire, in lieu of flowers,

donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke

Foundation of Canada.