We Remember
DAVY, Alfred Garnett
January 27, 1939 — August 9, 2025
Alfred Garnett Davy was born in New Westminster, BC, January 27, 1939, to Alfred Davy (Senior) and Rita Carter. He passed away peacefully August 9, 2025, in West Kelowna, BC.
Alf grew up playing a multitude of sports and was an accomplished and competitive athlete in his youth, excelling in baseball. In his early teens he moved to Terrace, BC, where his exposure to the nature of northern BC developed into what would go on to be a lifelong passionate appreciation for nature and the outdoors, specifically fishing and hunting.
He attended the University of British Columbia and earned a Bachelor’s of Teaching in 1964. That same year, he married his wife Verneta Loraine Davy (née Thompson), and they went on to teach at a variety of secondary schools in BC before settling down in West Kelowna in 1967. He went onto to teach, coach basketball and referee at both Rutland Senior Secondary and Okanagan Mission Secondary in Kelowna until his retirement from teaching.
As an avid angler and world traveller, he published a well-known guide to interior lake fishing in BC, called The Gilly. It went on to become the best-selling fly-fishing book in Canada and a Canadian bestseller. It has raised over $80,000 for enhancement and conservation for BC lakes and rivers.
He is survived by his wife Verneta; his daughters Valia and Ayra; his sons-in-law Chris Lotoski and Guy Thorburn; as well as by his grandchildren Morgan and Evan Lotoski and Bryn, Gavin, and Maggie Thorburn.
The lakes of British Columbia are better for his attention and advocacy. He will always be casting a line and hopefully reeling in a gorgeous rainbow trout.
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We only new you for 20 yrs but enjoyed many a fishing story around the campfire at White Lake. We will miss you around the fire