Parker Raymond Paul Kelly
September 05, 2002 - October 21, 2025
Funeral Details: A Salute to honor Parker will be held at a later date where those that touched Parker's shortened life can come and gather to share time together.
Parker passed peacefully on October 21, 2025, at Southlake Hospital in Newmarket, Ontario, due to complications from Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
Parker lived life with determination and strength. He had a passion for all animals, music and enjoyed cooking shows and collecting limited edition clothing and shoes.
Parker was the ambassador for Muscular Dystrophy at the age of 10 and the poster boy for Holland Bloorview for their newspaper at the age of 11. He assisted his mother with designing inclusive, adaptive playgrounds to present to our counsel in the city of Barrie, and the first park of this vision came to be at Sunnidale Park in Barrie.
In Parker's early adult years, he gained a passion for making music. He is well known in the European music industry for his creative mind and knowledge of jazz and blues as well as hip hop. He was recently asked to sign to a label but sadly passed away before this came to be.
Parker was brilliant, kind and compassionate with a quick wit and sense of humor. He could talk people out of depression with his sincerity.
Parker will be sadly missed by people all over the globe and especially his family and friends.
Parker is survived by his parents, Jennifer and Jeremy Kelly and his siblings, Kyle, Alexandra (Dillon), Dakota, Riley (Maribel), Carson, Brogan, Isaiah as well as his nephew Evan and niece Violet.
Grandparents Judy Shakell and Teresa and Robert Mosley.
Predeceased by grandfathers Paternal Raymond Kelly and maternal Randall Carson.
Donations to the hospital for Sick Children Hospital and/or Curesma Canada in lieu of flowers would be appreciated.
A Salute to honor Parker will be held at a later date where those that touched Parker's shortened life can come and gather to share time together.
Peaceful Transition Simcoe
Amanda Knox
Posted on: Tuesday, October 28, 2025My condolences to Jennifer, all of Parker’s family and anyone who has the pleasure of meeting Parker. A donation has been made on your behalf Parker to the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto. Prayers of comfort to you all from myself and my family. 🙏 🕊️
Maryjane Klomp
Posted on: Tuesday, October 28, 2025My deepest deepest condolences to the Kelly family
Jennifer and Jeremy the boys an daughter at this time in your life I don’t think words can even express what you’re going through. My heart goes out to you all.
And Parker God has taken a great person. You were a kind soul. just to hear your voice would make anybody smile the Little greet you get when you walk in your house it’s a warm magical feeling that laugh it’s gone now, but never forgotten
Mr. Parker you are missed already down on this so-called Earth with you up in heaven hopefully things can change down here
Stay strong Jen & Jer 💙❤️
Love From always
Maryjane Skyy and Billy
Teresa and Craig Rudling
Posted on: Tuesday, October 28, 2025We didn’t know Parker personally but felt privileged to get to know him and his family through his grandmother, a dear friend, Teresa Mosley. She has shared many memories, stories and anecdotes of the whole family and we feel blessed to have shared a part of his life. We offer our sincere condolences and pray that you find comfort and peace knowing that Parker’s life has touched so many. A donation has been made to the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto in memory of Parker.
Jennifer Jones
Posted on: Wednesday, October 29, 2025Jeremy, Jen & family my condolences you are in my thoughts.
Kevin Stewart
Posted on: Wednesday, October 29, 2025A poem for Parker, from his family, friends and all who knew and loved him…
I hope you don’t miss me in heaven as badly as I miss you here.
I hope for you the silence is peaceful and the thought of me feels like deja vu, a wave of familiarity that you can’t quite put your finger on, empty for only a moment once in a while and gone like the wind after that.
I hope when you got there, you were swept over by a wave of forgetfulness, so you’re still entirely full of life and happiness but you can’t remember why, and pieces of me are a part of you in a way that you feel more complete.
I hope you don’t have to miss me up there in the way that I miss you down here.
I can’t imagine heaven feels the way I feel without you.
I hope you yearn for nothing and no one.
I hope there is no pain at all, maybe I’m feeling both of ours at once and that’s why it feels this heavy.
If that’s the case it means you are with me and I’m okay with that.
I hope in heaven grief does not exist and I show up in your dreams on occasion and the feeling of having me near you lingers with you through the morning after you wake up.
I hope those are the same nights you show up in mine.
And if in heaven you can’t remember me at all, I hope the wave of forgetfulness that overtook you when you arrived, turns into an ocean of remembering when we meet again, like we never spent a moment apart.
And I will forget what it was like to be without you and you will never have known what it was like to be without me, because you found the piece that I’d hoped you’d find while I found my way back to you.
Christine Hill
Posted on: Thursday, October 30, 2025From all of us at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, sending you our deepest condolences as you navigate the coming days, weeks, months. A life well lived!
James, Austin & Anson Mitchell
Posted on: Thursday, October 30, 2025Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality…
Deepest condolences to the Kelly family. You are all in our thoughts.
James, Austin, & Anson Mitchell