May 19, 1952 – September 5, 2023

It is with great sadness that we announce that Sheila passed away in the company of her beloved family.

She was 71.

She is survived by her husband of 44 years, Ron, and by her brother Ian (Edna).

She will be fondly remembered by her daughters Christine (David) and Heather (Sam) and her granddaughter, Daren Dorothy Sheila Barbieri, and by her many nieces and nephews. Sheila enjoyed a full life.

She attended Immaculata High School in Ottawa and pursued a career at Prudential Insurance and at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Commerce.

After moving to Toronto, she was an executive assistant at Thorne Riddell, Bank of Nova Scotia and Costain Homes and thereafter worked at the Social Assistance Review Board and the Children’s Aid Society. She left her career to devote her time to her daughters.

She travelled extensively through Canada, the United States and Europe and enjoyed her vacation home in Paradise Valley, Scottsdale. Summers included treasured Canada Day weekends in Westport at the summer home of her cousin Helen (John). Everyone who came to know Sheila found her to be a wonderful person.

Sheila was beautiful inside and out and always stylish. When cancer came calling, she fought it with exceptional fortitude, grace and dignity through unending challenges.

She was vibrant, kind, quick to laugh, a devoted wife, mother and grandmother, a dog lover and a consummate hostess. We will miss her dearly.

A visitation will be held on Friday, September 15, 2023, at https://newediukfuneralhome.com/book-of-memories/5265350/Matheson-Sheila/index.php, 110 Dundas Street East, Whitby from 2pm to 4pm and from 6pm to 8pm. A Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, September 16, 2023 at St. John the Evangelist Church, 903 Giffard Street, Whitby at 10:30am followed by a reception at the Parish Hall.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made in memory of Sheila to the North York Hospital Foundation, Lakeridge Health Foundation, Sunnybrook Foundation or UHN.

The family is grateful for the wonderful embrace and support of doctors (especially Dr. Paula Fishman) and staff of the four hospitals, the nurses (especially Danielle and Alicia) and PSWs of VHA and St. Elizabeth’s Home Care (especially Ely) who played integral roles in helping Sheila on her journey which began during the covid years – a greater gift could not have been give.