Elisabeth Margarete JAMMER

1939 - 2022

JAMMER, Elisabeth Margarete (nee PREM) Elisabeth Margarete Jammer (Prem), passed away at her home, on September 1, 2022, with family at her side. She was born in 1939, in Nuremberg, Germany, to Austrian mother (Anna Prem, nee Wick) and father (Franz Prem) and spent her childhood in the Austrian Alps in Schwarzau im Gebirge. She moved to Germany, settling in Bremen, where she worked as a photographer and in a photo lab and met her future life partner, Arthur Jammer, who was travelling from Canada. She crossed the Atlantic on a small freighter to Canada in September 1966, after a year of writing back and forth and they married in February 1967. She continued working in the photography field in Toronto, first at Chas Abel and then at Ryerson. She and Art lived in Willowdale and in 1977 settled in their family home in Stouffville. After 12 years of marriage and lots of prayers from her Aunt Steffi, they had a child, Michael. She stayed home to care for him while actively volunteering at the Markham Stouffville Hospital and the Toronto Zoo. She also enjoyed cross-country skiing, camping, various forms of folk art (painting, weaving, crochet, stained glass) and being at the cottage on Lake Simcoe. She was predeceased by her husband, Arthur Jammer (2016), her brother, Horst (2019), and her parents and her darling cat, Abby. She is survived by her son, Michael, daughter-in-law, Susan Robertson, her grandchildren, Fiona and Rowan (as well as Susan's sister, Amanda and her three children, Gwen, Sam and Griffin), nephews (Clint, Kurt, Thomas, Martin, Ruediger, Juergen); and nieces (Anke, Ute). Thanks to Dr. Hajra and the Markham-Stouffville Hospital Chemotherapy Clinic team and Dr. Patterson and the Palliative Care team for support as she lived with terminal cancer over the last 1.5 years. Thanks also to friends and neighbours on South Street in Stouffville for their caring attention and loving support. A service at the Stouffville Cemetery will be held on Saturday, October 1st, at 1:30 p.m. and a Celebration of Life will be held at the family home, 338 South Street, starting at 2:30 p.m.