F. Gregory Peacock

Gregg passed away in the palliative care unit of Hotel Dieu Hospital in Perth-Andover, NB, after a short but arduous journey with cancer.

He’s off to the Rainbow Bridge to join our furred and feathered companions Wellington and Darby, Britt and Chelsea, Gruffydd, Belle, Juniper and Teddy.

He leaves behind his wife of 47 years, Karen Morton, and furred and feathered companions Gus and Sydney. He was predeceased by: parents Pearle (Johnson) and Frank Peacock, parents-in-law Kathleen (Ellis) and Lloyd Morton, brothers-in-law Winston Morton, Charlie Cameron, and David Ashworth.

He is also survived by his golfing partner and cousin Ken (Gwyn) Peacock, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law Winnifred Cameron, Isabel Morton, (Kent Tompkins), Allen (Sandra) Morton, Dale (Carolyn) Morton, Amber Ashworth, Bonnie Morton, Darlene Morton (Robert LaFrance), Darwin (Marie) Morton, Blair Morton and numerous nieces and nephews.

Born in Saint John, NB, June 28, 1947, he graduated Saint John High in 1966. He attained his B Sc in 1970 and his M Sc in 1972 at UNB Fredericton.

He joined the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans and stayed with the department in various capacities until retirement in 2007. He began his DFO career in Black’s Harbour, NB, and after a short stint in Ottawa moved on to Halifax in 1982. He held many different positions at DFO Halifax but his most memorable was his time in Resource Management where he developed several friendships, some of which have lasted until the end.

In his position he didn’t shy away from hard and unpopular decisions. Nevertheless he was well respected in the fishery – fishers and colleagues alike. He travelled extensively, internationally, representing DFO – Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Russia, the UK, Spain, Italy and Denmark to name some but he was really entranced by the elephants that he got to see while in South Africa.

Gregg and I travelled a great deal together toward the end of his career – Italy, France, the UK, and of course Florida. These past four years he has spent four months of each year at our condo in Venice, Florida where he thoroughly enjoyed the heat (no snow), biking, golfing, going to baseball games and attending the opera.

When we built our house in Kincardine, NB, it wasn’t long before he struck up a friendship with Jerry Inman – working in the woods, gardening, snow clearing and touring around the back roads of Victoria County. We recently moved to our house in Kincardine after living in Lakelands, NS for 36 years. You usually saw them together when we were in NB.

There will be no funeral at this time but perhaps in the summer of 2021.

If you wish, you could make a memorial donation to the Melville United Church Cemetery Fund, Kincardine, NB, Cancer Society, Arthritis Society or the charity of your choice.

I would like to take this time to thank my hugely supportive family, notably Bonnie, Darlene, Blair and Bob. I have been enfolded (virtually) in their loving arms – and, of course, Jerry’s.

I would also like to thank Gregg’s family physician Dr. Greg Archibald and doctors Steven Morris and Maureen Nolan who gave us four more precious years. We really appreciated the excellent care given in these past few months by the Victorian Order of Nurses in Nova Scotia and the Extramural Nurses in New Brunswick. Thank you also to the palliative care people for the two days at Hotel Dieu, and to Brunswick Funeral Home in Perth-Andover, NB.

And so we say “so long” to a very bright individual, mentor to many, and friend to a select few.