Don died peacefully at home on the first day of spring, after 91 years of a full life and a long career. As a devoted and dedicated family practitioner, he touched and made better the lives of thousands of patients and their families on both sides of the border.
Married to Betty for 65 years, still at home, and father to Rob, Doug, and Kathy. After obtaining his medical degree from Queens University in Kingston, Ont., and two years of interning and residency in Vancouver, B.C. (where he met his future wife) Don was a doctor in private practice in Burlington, Ont. starting in 1959. In 1978, he and Betty moved to San Benito, Texas. In his newly adopted home state, he was a partner with San Benito Medical Associates until he retired to become a master gardener and to chronicle the family genealogy. He and Betty moved to Austin, Texas in 2021.
He was preceded in death by his father Captain Grant Redfearn and his mother Leatha (Stewart) Redfearn of Stoney Creek (later of Burlington), and his only brother Graham Redfearn, also of Burlington. He is survived by his wife, three kids, seven grandchildren (Riley, Claire, and Kate Cassidy, Stuart, Mary, Wade, and Carly Redfearn), and two great-grandchildren (Clark Blanchard and Samantha Schneider).
A voracious reader his whole life, in lieu of flowers, he would have greatly appreciated a donation to the National Library Service which provides audio and braille books for the blind. The NLS made his later years with macular degeneration much more bearable.
By his own admission and choice, he did not have many close friends, but the ones he had were the best and he loved them. He will be missed.