"Let me try to draw for you a picture of a young man who lived life to the fullest; for whom being able to laugh and being positive was second nature. His friends all knew that Jeff would be able to cheer them up with his wacky sense of humor, regardless of their own bad mood and that Jeff could be counted on to be the designated driver, the perâ€" son you could trust, the one who would be there for you when you needed him. An avid baseball and hockey fan, Jeff also was an accomplished tennis player Barbara Singleton, principal at WOSS, spoke highly of Jeff at a memoâ€" rial assembly at the school last September. The pathologists® report stated: "In both cases, irregular heartbeat and heart failure, leading to sudden death, was apparently due to degeneration of the heart muscle. At present, there are no known symptoms and, therefore, no cure. Some causes are known, many are not. We still have much to learn. We have come a long way, not enough for your boys, but we need to go much farâ€" ther. Minute fragments of the jigsaw puzzle will, eventually, fit together to allow us to understand the whole picâ€" ture," the pathologists wrote. (Continued from page 1) of the Department of Pathology at the University of Toronto, wrote to King in response to a comprehensive medical history and family history she had sent to him at his request. Dr. Silver was part of the team that conducted extensive autopsies on both Jon and Jeff between August and October, 1993. 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His friends are among the 45 stuâ€" dents who responded recently to a request from Bill Mulock, campaign chair for the Heart and Stroke Foundation in Oakville, to volunteer as canvassers. "On Jeff‘s birthday, 18 of his friends came to our house, with a card and a donation of over $100 they had collectâ€" ed amongst themselves for the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital pediatrics department," said King. â€" but modest about his own achieveâ€" ments and supportive of those of others. Above all, Jeff, in his brief 18 years with us, was a true friend and a devoted son. He was a source of sunshine for many people in a world often darkened by tragedies such as his own death." and Stroke Foundation offers a ray of hope, not only for an answer, someday, as to why two of her sons died from a sudden heart ailment, but to other memâ€" bers of her family. 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