Monday, July 15, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.
Hoye, Laurence
LAURENCE GEORGE HOYE passed away peacefully at Edith Cavell Care Centre on Saturday, June 29, 2019 at the age of 87 years.
LAURENCE GEORGE HOYE passed away peacefully at Edith Cavell Care Centre on Saturday, June 29, 2019 at the age of 87 years.
Laurence is survived and lovingly remembered by his two daughters and their families: Lorna & Dave Jones and their son, Jesse of Maple Ridge BC and Valorie Hoye & Michael Methot of Port Coquitlam BC, as well as his nephew, Devon Sissons in Toronto ON.
He was predeceased by his wife, Frances (née Sissons), and his sister, Gladys Jowett, who both passed in 1993.
Laurence was born in Lloydminster SK on June 9, 1932, later moving off the family farm there and into the city of Edmonton. He earned both Bachelor and Masters of Science degrees in Mathematics from the University of Alberta. He and Fran settled in Lethbridge in 1961 when he accepted a job at the local community college. From there, he became part of the team that spearheaded the push for a university. Dad went on to teach and hold administrative positions at the University of Lethbridge from its founding in 1967 until his retirement.
In the years after his wife's passing and his retirement from the university, Laurence found many new activities of interest: from involvement in the Diamond City Community Association while he lived there, to supporting LUSI (Lethbridge United Services Institute) and PROBUS, as well as advocating for nuclear power as part of the informal Energy Collegium. Through it all, "the boys" kept watching, collecting, photographing and talking about trains every week of every year.
The family wishes to thank all of his tremendous friends and the staff at Chinook Regional Hospital, Edith Cavell Care Centre and Alberta Health Services in Lethbridge as well as Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary for their diligent care of Laurence in the last couple of years of his life.
A Celebration of Life service will be held at COUNTRY KITCHEN CATERING, 1715 - Mayor Magrath Drive, South, Lethbridge, on Monday, July 15th, at 2:00 P.M. Use back entrance (east side).
In lieu of flowers, please donate to a charity of your choice.
Always in our thoughts, forever in our hearts.
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Laurence and I are University of Alberta graduates from the previous century. I didn't meet him till early this century when we moved back to Alberta and Lethbridge to retire. We met as members of the U of A Alumni Association and Probus. Our interest in energy for future generations has involved us in many activities. Laurence was also keenly interested in trains and railroads, actually spending holidays visiting railroad operations in Canada and the US. Just a couple of years ago I noticed several distinctive volumes of books in his home library. It turned out they were a 1974 proposal, and massive study, of a railroad for transport of energy products. The idea was to move natural gas and oil from Alaska and the Arctic to Alberta and the United States via rail. I had never heard of it, living in Nigeria at the time. Still very timely issues Laurence! We will be missing you at our Energy Collegium meetings. We pledge to take your thoughts and insights on energy, trains and pipelines forward as best we can.
Farewell friend, and thanks for the many years of friendly political conversation and always being positive and that always present smile. May you now Rest In Peace.
I have known Lawrence since I came to Lethbridge, through the Energy Collegium. Lawrence's canning ability to meticulously approach a problem from different angles was invaluable and his professional contribution and friendship will be missed greatly. I will not be able to attend his memorial but I will retain his last statement, when I visited him in the hospital a month ago: "make sure that you enjoy every day of your life as much as you can". I am sending my condolences to his daughters and family. They had a father t o be proud off.
am very sorry to learn of the passing of Prof Hoye. He was very welcoming to me when I joined the U of L faculty in the mid-1980s. Like all of the "Old Idealists", his clear professionalism was tempered by good humour and the capacity to see all sides of a situation. Peace and blessings to Prof. Hoye and all his family.
Laurence contributed to our memories and lives.