The Brock University community is mourning the death of third-year Concurrent Teacher Education student Sean Cowieson, who passed away on Saturday, March 2.<\/p>\n
Known as a positive, empathetic and kind leader of youth, Cowieson is remembered for his love of music, sports, games and movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Faculty of Education Interim Dean Mary-Louise Vanderlee expressed her condolences.<\/p>\n \u201cOur thoughts are with Sean\u2019s family and friends, and we hope his positive and giving spirit brings some comfort to all who are grieving,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n A funeral service was held in Ottawa on Monday, March 11 and the University\u2019s flags were also lowered to half mast on that day in Cowieson\u2019s honour.<\/p>\n In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Tim Hortons Foundation Camps<\/a> or Pflag Canada<\/a> would be appreciated by the Cowieson family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Brock University community is mourning the death of third-year Concurrent Teacher Education student Sean Cowieson, who passed away on Saturday, March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,1],"tags":[98,551],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91401"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103787,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91401\/revisions\/103787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}