Former North Vancouver councillor, daughter killed in house fire
The local community has been left reeling following the unexpected death of former North Vancouver councillor Bob Fearnley and his daughter, Gayle, but none more so, says his eldest son, than the members of his “incredibly close-knit” family.
The younger Bob Fearnley, a petty officer with the Navy who had been posted to Esquimalt at the time of the fire, said it will be the councillor’s role as “doting husband and father” for which he will be remembered most. “He tried to help her but she was having none of it. She was like, ‘Oh, just leave me alone. I’m a nurse. I can take care of this.’” Fearnley said with a laugh.
The two went on to have Fearnley, now 34, brother Paolo, 32, and Gayle, the youngest of the siblings, who “had been a light to the people that knew her,” he said.“We made a decision a long time ago that we want to always be there for each other, that we would always stick together and never allow anything to come between us. We had said that out loud.”Fearnley said the recent “rallying around” of the local community has brought to light the indelible mark his father left on the North Shore.
While his father’s accomplishments within the community were “too numerous” to list, Fearnley said, if his legacy were to be defined by three things in particular, it would be his determination to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the Community Energy and Emissions Plan, his work with the North Vancouver library, and his contributions to North Shore’s drug policy making.
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