Donald Allan Fraser, 79 of Lower Mount Thom, died peacefully at the Aberdeen Hospital on Friday June 3.
Allan was a confirmed and crusty old bachelor with a dry sense of humour that saw him through to the end.
Before his retirement, Allan spent many years living and working in British Columbia in the logging and construction industry as a heavy-duty machine operator and prior to that in the construction industry in Atlantic Canada.
Allan was predeceased by his mother and father, Harold and Hazel (Hislop) Fraser of Lower Mount Thom, brothers Thomas Harold (Buddy) Fraser, and James (Jimmy) Brian Fraser, his sister Gertrude Jacqueline Lewis, as well as three infant siblings.
Allan is survived by his sister Cherie (Floyd) Cock, Marilyn (Walter) Roy, and brother Colin (Paula) Fraser as well as several nieces and nephews.
Allan was especially close to his nephew Liam, who spent many hours with him from the time he was old enough to run across the yard.
At Allan’s request there will be no service, and he instructed that his body be donated to Dalhousie University Medical Research. Anyone wishing to acknowledge his passing could make a donation to the Kidney Foundation Research wing or the Aberdeen Hospital Palliative Care Unit.