Clarence Stanley Fitzherbert - Age 82.
It is with great sadness that the family of Clarence Stanley Fitzherbert announce his passing on January 14th, 2022 in Cedarstone Enhanced Care in Truro, NS. Born in River de Chute, NB, he was the son of the late Freeman and Addie Fitzherbert (Tompkins). Clarence is survived by his loving wife of 58 years, Edna (Coston) Fitzherbert of Truro, NS; children, Terri Lavery (Stephen) of Mississauga, ON, Linda Adey (Greg) of Truro, NS and Susan McLeod (Chris) of Truro, NS; grandchildren, Jennifer, Alexandra, Ashton, Samantha, Benjamin and Paige. Clarence was predeceased by sisters, Grace Kilcollins (John), Nellie Serino (Gary), Ivy Coston (Alfred), Alta Rattray (Eddie), Betty Coston (Alfred), Marjorie Anson (George) and brothers, Ralph Fitzherbert (Opal), Jonas Fitzherbert, Percy Fitzherbert (Vera) and Harley Fitzherbert.

Clarence was always an avid outdoorsman, spending time with friends and family hunting, fishing, camping. In school, he played on most sports teams and held records in track for many years. Clarence graduated high school from Southern Victoria Regional High School in Andover, NB in 1957 and promptly felt the duty to serve his country and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force that same year. After completing training and spending time overseas, he started courting his future wife in 1962. Clarence and Edna grew up together as family friends and were joined in marriage on August 24, 1963 in Saint John, NB. The newly wedded couple spent the first two years of their marriage in St. John’s, NF and adopted their first dog, Mugsy. In 1965, they moved to the Halifax area where they started their family. Their two eldest daughters, Terri and Linda were born in Halifax and in 1971, they moved their young family to Latina, Italy for six months while Clarence was completing additional training. Although their time in Italy was short, they took full advantage of the opportunity to travel and create memories. In 1972, Clarence was transferred to Carp, ON where they built a new home in Arnprior, ON where they spent the next six years and welcomed their third daughter, Susan, to the family. In 1978, Clarence and his family were transferred to Gander, NF for another six years and he was fortunate to be assigned a three month post in Alert, spending 24 hours in complete darkness in the most northernmost inhabited settlement on Earth, befriending the local Arctic Fox. Clarence was next transferred back to Nova Scotia in 1985, where he settled his family in Truro and ultimately retired after 37 years of service to his country. He held a variety of positions in the field of communications and was promoted to Chief Warrant Officer. After retirement, Clarence and Edna took up many hobbies together. In addition to hunting, fishing and camping, they made many new friends as they started downhill skiing, square dancing and round dancing. These new activities were the impetus to their travels around the world. Dancing took them to Holland, Italy and Toronto. They skied all the hills in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and some in Quebec and Ontario. They then began cruising with some of their dancing friends in 2000 and continued to cruise every couple years with their most recent cruise being in January 2020 where they thought it was a little strange that all the flight attendants were wearing masks. In 2007, Clarence’s brother-in-law, the late Eric Coston introduced them to the world of geocaching. This became their new favorite pastime. Their love of “caching” took them on many trips around the world where they cached in many European countries, the Caribbean, the USA and all across Canada with their most recent milestone being finding over 86,000 caches. Clarence was very skilled at carpentry, mechanics and most trades, fixing anything from the family vehicles to home appliances and not even chopping off the tip of his fingers would stand in his way of finishing the task at hand. To anyone who knew Clarence, he will be remembered as a quiet and thoughtful man who was always willing to lend a hand to anyone in need.
The family wishes to extend a special thank you to the staff at the Cedarstone Enhanced Care for their care and compassion.

No visitation or service. Arrangements have been entrusted to Colchester Community Funeral Home, 512 Willow St., Truro, NS. Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.ColchesterCommunity.com

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