September 3, 1932 to November 2, 2024

“We rise again in the faces of our children.”

Pat was an avid golfer, proud owner of a hole-in-one trophy!  There wasn’t a craft Pat didn’t attempt and subsequently master.  She loved to work with her hands. She was an accomplished seamstress, quilter, knitter, made beautiful needlework and hooked rugs. Pat loved to bake her famous chocolate chip cookies and butter tarts. Bridge and Euchre were favourite pastimes. Her landscaping and numerous house plants attested to Pat’s green thumb.


As a young Mom, Pat was active in The Girl Guides of Canada and volunteered at Camp Kiawa.  She was always ready for a change and a challenge. Once her children were older she pursued a successful career in insurance.  Pat worked at Mainway Insurance and taught insurance courses at Mohawk College for many years.

As a member of Knox Presbyterian Church in Dundas, her passion was working in the nursery with the young children.

Pat grew up in Hamilton, but moved to the suburbs of Dundas  when she married Jim Harmer. She described their life on York Road as being like The Little House on the Prairie. Jim outside chopping wood and tending to the property and Pat inside quilting and baking.

Pat was predeceased by her husband James David Harmer, infant sons David and Andrew, parents Robert and Margaret Thompson, in-laws Lillian and Clayton Harmer, her brothers and sister-in-laws, Robert and Janet Thompson, Donald and Helen Thompson and brother-in-law Laverne Carson.   Predeceased by beloved nephew Jamie Thompson, cousin Bill Bayliss and grandson Richard Folkerts.

Pat will be missed by her children, Kathleen and John Flanagan, Patricia and Mark Folkerts, Tim Harmer and Diane, her sister-in-law Shirley Carson and family and extended members of the Moon and Thompson families.

Pat loved spending precious moments with her grandchildren Kelly and Adam Van Dinther, James Flanagan, Robert Downs and Katie, Matt and Erin Downs, Jessica and Blake Boughen, Stephanie Folkerts and Ben, Elisabeth and Katie Harmer and Aiden Wang.  Pat found special joy in great grandchildren Lily, Maggie, Henk, Charlie, Deegan, Everley, Emily and Jack.

Donations in Pat’s memory appreciated to a charity of your choice.

Family internment has taken place.

“We rise again in the waves out on the ocean”