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7 | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Medical Office Building For Sale or Lease Joan and Stan Davis at a past Oakville Relay for Life event. Oakville Beaver file photo (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog) Bright light now shines above Jill Davis Editor in Chief, Metroland West, Halton Region My View H e wore the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life T-shirt and survivor's ribbon with pride. He bought daffodils in April and, like the flowers themselves, his sunny disposition kept him going through each diagnosis of cancer. Sixteen years ago, he was told he had lung cancer, but he fought back. A year or so later, he was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer, but fought back. And in between matching wits with those formidable foes, he fought numerous bouts of skin cancer. He did it all so brilliantly. He simply would not give up or in to this wretched disease. He was a bright light, a spark who thought of cancer as nothing more than a common cold. Sure you have to treat it, perhaps surgery mixed in with seven weeks of radiation, and then you soldier on. In the Bronte apartment he shared with Joan, his beloved wife of more than 63 years, there is a fridge magnet that reads simply: "Keep calm and carry on." Those words were on a poster produced by the British government at the start of the Second World War. In a way , he lived his life by those words. That was my dad, Stan Davis, who died Saturday morning under the compassionate care and guiding hands of staff and volunteers at Ian Anderson House. Dad was 83 and would be the first to tell you that he had "good innings." This time around though, the lung cancer proved too much. Surrounded by his family and his adoring wife, dad drew his last breath. It would have been exactly the way he would have wanted to leave this place on Earth. He showed such extraordinary courage over his final days and I only hope that I have the same sense of fortitude necessary to `carry on.' Like battling his various cancers, dad never was a quitter. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why he decided to retire at the ripe old age of 81. That was the same year he got a hole-in-one at Hidden Lake, although his former boss at CHWO Radio, Michael Caine, continues to have his doubts about the claim. There are witnesses, though, and dad was more than proud of this achievement. His passion -- aside from his family -- was golf and the Tottenham Hotspurs. There were spirited arguments with my husband over the merits of the NFL versus English soccer. My own passion for the media comes directly from my mom and dad. It's in the DNA. I am sure there are more than a few of his `accounts' who will remember Stan as he spent more than 25 years in sales with Oakville's radio station. He also remembered fondly his days spent at the now-defunct Burlington Gazette and Toronto Sun. I find it almost impossible to say the words that my dad has died. He has been such a constant in my life. A cheerleader for his kids and grandkids and an unbelievably caring husband to his sweetheart Kitty. I will always love you, dad, and I will always miss you. But I did promise you that I would carry on. · · · The Canadian Cancer Society is currently organizing teams for Relay for Life. Please think of my dad and all the other cancer patients who continue to need our support. My father held his wife's hand when she underwent a mastectomy and surgery for lymphoma. That same hand held mine while I underwent chemo and radiation for breast cancer. We still have a long way to go in finding a cure. Every dollar helps. · · · Stan Davis, 84, was married to his cherished wife Joan ("Kitty") for 63 years and was father of Michael, daughters Elizabeth McDonald and Gillian McGhie all of Burlington, and grandfather to Laura and Heather McDonald. Predeceased by parents Emily and Arthur and sister Hilda, Davis will be missed by his cat, Maggie, and leaves behind a circle of friends from his time as an advertising salesman with CHWO radio (later AM 740) in Oakville. Born in Enfield, England, Davis was in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War and immigrated with his family to Canada in 1967. A remembrance of his life will be held tomorrow (March 28), at Oakview Funeral Home, 56 Lakeshore Rd. W . Visitation is at 10 a.m. prior to an 11 a.m. service. Donations may be made in his honour to Oakville's Ian Anderson House or the Canadian Cancer Society. 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