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ADELE WICKETT
DOCK RENEWAL
In the spring of 1963, while engaged to his fiancee Adele, Garry Wickett spent a season building the dock at Pioneer Pacific Camp.
After 59 happy years of marriage Adele passed away peacefully, and the camp dock has come to the end of its natural life as well. It is both timely and fitting that donations made in the name of Adele Wickett will go towards the construction of a new dock to serve a whole new generation of campers.
ADELE WICKETT
DOCK RENEWAL
In the spring of 1963, while engaged to his fiancee Adele, Garry Wickett spent a season building the dock at Pioneer Pacific Camp.
After 59 happy years of marriage Adele passed away peacefully, and the camp dock has come to the end of its natural life as well. It is both timely and fitting that donations made in the name of Adele Wickett will go towards the construction of a new dock to serve a whole new generation of campers.
After a 60 year history of championing the work of Pioneer Pacific Camp, Adele Wickett passed away peacefully on March 29, 2023. Fittingly, in the last hour of her life, the piped playlist that echoed through the halls of her long term care facility included “Abide With Me”, and family at her bedside could sing her those beloved, familiar words.
Adele was a university student when she first attended PPC in its very early days. It was there that her relationship with Garry blossomed, and after their marriage in 1963 they chose to honeymoon at the Sea Shanty.
Garry joined IV staff in 1967 as camp manager, Boys Camp director and Vancouver Island campus/high school staff. The family moved to the Panabode, and joining sisters Becky and Mim, their third daughter Lizabee was born in Chemainus during their time there.
Adele served the camp for decades–at many work weekends (her gingham curtains must still be hanging somewhere), as a neighbour (pouring countless cups of tea at the Pumphouse), as an IV board member and camp committee member. She saw her seven grandsons roam the arbutus-lined trails just as her four daughters did.
As a great labour of love, Adele poured her gifts as an editor and history buff into creating “Cool Waters Beckon Me”, an account of the first 50 years of Pioneer Pacific Camp. The well-worn pages of this memoir still absorb those who love the camp.
Fundamentally influenced by an InterVarsity worldview, Adele believed that the camp experience formed deep spiritual capacity in a community by living out servant leadership, appreciating creation and enjoying laughter and good fun together. The legacy she leaves is her devotion to God lived out in love for those beckoned by cool waters…so peaceful beside the sea…where all nature sings to the King of Kings.
After a 60 year history of championing the work of Pioneer Pacific Camp, Adele Wickett passed away peacefully on March 29, 2023. Fittingly, in the last hour of her life, the piped playlist that echoed through the halls of her long term care facility included “Abide With Me”, and family at her bedside could sing her those beloved, familiar words.
Adele was a university student when she first attended PPC in its very early days. It was there that her relationship with Garry blossomed, and after their marriage in 1963 they chose to honeymoon at the Sea Shanty.
Garry joined IV staff in 1967 as camp manager, Boys Camp director and Vancouver Island campus/high school staff. The family moved to the Panabode, and joining sisters Becky and Mim, their third daughter Lizabee was born in Chemainus during their time there.
Adele served the camp for decades–at many work weekends (her gingham curtains must still be hanging somewhere), as a neighbour (pouring countless cups of tea at the Pumphouse), as an IV board member and camp committee member. She saw her seven grandsons roam the arbutus-lined trails just as her four daughters did.
