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- Eulogy for Bradley Aiken:
Who was Brad Aiken? Maybe that is a question that can't be answered either. Do you really ever know who or what a person is? Brad was certainly some obvious things. He was a devoted son of Ross & Muriel, a brother loved by Murray & Merri, a fiancee loved by Louise & a friendly clerk at the hardware store. He held an university degree. But he was more than that.
I remember the first time I met Brad about a year ago last April when I first preached in Allenford. He was one of the first people I met & I knew he had to be a good fellow. He had a beard. But you know as I got to know him, he was a good fellow. He was kind, he was sincere, he was generous. He loved his church & it was important to him & he was active in it. In the choir, as Recording Stewart, as a lay delegate to Presbytery. This quiet, shy man who sometimes had difficulty expressing in words his feelings, expressed his faith so forcefully by his action. Brad would have fed the world if he had had the resource. There wasn't anything he wouldn't do for people. Last night we saw testimony to that by his many friends, some had now known by the family, who came to pay their respects because Brad had done them a favour.
We are all poorer for the loss of Brad because he touched each of our lives in some way & a part of each of us dies with the death of someone we love. If it were not for love, there would be no grief.
Brad will be remembered always for his generous spirit, his kind, gentle brown eyes & the way he would help anyone who asked him for it. He must remember all that his life & his death has taught us & try to use it to help others. Brad would want it no other way.
Ref: As delivered by Reverend Bain Milroy, of the Allenford United Church.
OBITUARY
Brad Aiken passes: Aiken, Bradley Ross: 33 of Allenfort, Tues. Aug. 20, 1985, Elision son of Ross & Muriel Aiken, a brother of Murray & his wife Debbie & Merri Lynn. He was an uncle of Angela & Steven Aiken & a special friend of Louise McCulloch.
Brad grew up in Allenford when he went to public school before attending high school at Wet Hill in Owen Sound. In 1976 he graduated from the University of Waterloo with an Honors Bachelor of Mathematics degree.
Following graduation, Brad work 3 years of General Motors of Canada in Oshawa as a computer programmer. He returned to Allenford in 1979 to work in his family's business, Aiken Brothers Home Hardware, alongside his father Ross & brother Murray. He was unfailingly cheery & helpful with customers in the store.
Brad was an active member of Allenford United Church. He was recording secretary for Allenford/Park Head charge, on the Board of Stewards & was lay delegate to bruce Presbytery. He also belongs to the Allenford Curling club.
The high regard in which Brad was held was demonstrated by the many friends & relatives who visited downs & sons funeral home in Hepworth & who filled the Allenford United Church, as well as its basement, for the funeral Thursday, conducted by Mr. B Milroy.
Pallbearer were Tom Greenaway, Ron Wade, Paul Walker, Syd Wilkie, all of Allenford, Ian Sinclair of Tara & Richard Day of Toronto. Flower bears were Jennifer Walker, Molly White, Carolyn Walker, Susan Walker, Steven Dale, Wesley Greenaway, Todd Aiken & Michael Gaetz.
Relatives attended from Calgary, Sault Ste. Mario, London, Barrie, torn to, St. Thomas & Acton. - - -
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1952 - 1985 (33 years)