OBIT: Pat Sheehan, Volvo dealership founder
BURLINGTON, ON - Pat Sheehan, who owned and operated a Volvo truck dealership that bears his family name, has died of cancer. He was 75. Sheehan emigrated to Canada in 1965 and began work as a long-haul truck driver before switching to heavy truck sales. In 1989, he and his wife Gayle opened a used truck lot, and two years later they secured a Volvo franchise. Sheehan's Truck Centre moved to Harvester Road in Burlington, ON in 1996. The funeral will be held in the community's St. Gabriel's Church on March 17 -- St. Patrick's Day. The family patriarch retired in 1999, when control of the business shifted to their daughter, Kelly, and son, Dennis.