
Hintze, Thomas Milford
July 5, 1944 – June 30, 2025
at the age of 80 years
July 5, 1944 – June 30, 2025
at the age of 80 years
April 3, 1951 – June 28, 2025
at the age of 74 years
March 12, 1941 – June 28, 2025
at the age of 84 years
May 26, 1947 – June 27, 2025
at the age of 78 years
July 1, 1933 – June 23, 2025
at the age of 91 years:
Lois Higgins (nee Ream) was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1933. She grew up on a farm that had been in her family for generations. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, she moved to the Philippines where her father was working. Here she met and married Australian Harry Higgins. They moved to BC and lived in several places before moving to Salmon Arm in 1968.
Lois was a travel agent for many years while Harry was a school administrator. Their three children all graduated from Salmon Arm Secondary School.
Lois was very active in community affairs and was proud to be a founding member of the Shuswap Naturalist Club, Shuswap Theatre, Shuswap Day Care and the Shuswap District Arts Council. She was on the steering committee and later a director of Shuswap Community Foundation and was its Grants Chair for fifteen years. Other activities included being a member of the Okanagan College Advisory Committee and a board member of the Caravan Stage Company. She was a devoted singer in the Revellers choir and Shuswap Singers and also loved her writing group, Octava, which met for over twenty years. She also enjoyed both her Discussion Group and Book Club. Hiking, cross-country skiing and canoeing were important in Lois and Harry’s lives. Prairie river canoe trips with family and friends were an annual event for many years before Harry died in 2016.
In addition to her children, Robin (Wayne Lundeberg), David (Naseem Janmohamed) and Bill (Brenda Lee), Lois leaves her eight grandchildren Faelan and Freya Lundeberg, Shiraz, Rehan, Sophia, Jory and Travis Higgins and Jamie Bruce and her great-grandchildren Riaz, Roshan, Cecily and Felicity.
Lois died peacefully surrounded by loving family at Shuswap Lake General Hospital on June 23rd, 2025, after several days of spectacular care from the medical staff. She will be greatly missed by many friends and family members whose lives she touched with her bright, creative mind and deep kindness. Her closing words come from one of her many poems:
“As the days go by, we all become more still.
The fabric of this ancient place absorbs us with its quiet grace.
We breathe and walk with soothed and healing souls
and understand, that it all begins with the river.”
Donations in Lois’ memory can be made to the Higgins Family Fund at the Shuswap Community Foundation, Box 624, Salmon Arm, BC, V1E 4N7.