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Helen Tinant

Helen Tinant

Passed on: April 25th, 2015

HELEN TINANT passed away at the Cypress Regional Hospital on April 25, 2015 at the age of 84. She was born in Ponteix, SK. and was raised on the farm south of Ponteix and attended both the Hulbert School and Quimper School. Once mom left school, she worked for the Sisters of Notre Dame in Val Marie and then was later employed by the Sisters at the Ponteix Gabriel Hospital. She also worked for a Mink Rancher in the Kisbey, Sk. area for a couple of years. She started working at the Foyer St. Joseph Nursing Home once her children were grown from 1980 until her retirement in 1995. She was also a member of the Catholic Womens League in Ponteix. On November 10, 1955 Helen married Joe Tinant from Cadillac, Sk. They bought the Joe and Agnes McKnight farm and started raising their 7 children there until 1967 when they bought and moved to the Roger and Germaine Viturat farm where Helen still resided with her son Raymond until her passing. Joe and Helen had cropland and also raised cattle. Helen was predeceased by her husband Joe in January 2011, daughters Rita Suchy in April 2013 and Adele Tinant in infancy, her parents Jean Baptiste and Annie(Day) Dumonceaux, her sisters Sylvia Lizee, Agnes Walters, Marie Cherpin and a brother Albert Dumonceaux, her brothers-in-law Joe Walters and John Palaschak, her sisters-in-law Laurence Dumonceaux and Cecile Dumonceaux, her in-laws Achille and Gertrude (Hoppenreys) Tinant, brothers-in-law Emile and his wife Gertrude Tinant, Leo Tinant, sisters-in-law, Clara and her husband Ludovic Lacelle, Jeanne and her husband Clarence Gabriel, Maria and her husband Julien Gabriel. Helen is survived by her children: Anne(Bill) Moat, daughters: Michelle (Devon Leduc) their daughter Madeline; Marcy (Paul) Marshall, their children Tayden, Dyllin, Nixon and Daxton; Miranda (Rob) Isaak, their children Kyler, Ashtyn and Brooklyn; son-in-law Otto Suchy, sons: Michael (Nicole) Suchy, their children Cheyenne and Reese; Brent (fiancee Ashleigh) his son Ethan; Paul (Victoria) Suchy; daughter Ida Tinant; sons: Archie Tinant, his son Mathew; John Tinant; Raymond Tinant. Helen is survived by 9 of her siblings: Maurice Dumonceaux, Peter (Pat) Dumonceaux, Paul Dumonceaux, Arthur (Pierrette) Dumonceaux, Marcel (Marie) Dumonceaux, Mildred Palaschak, Edna (Bill) Stefanik, Gilbert (Rena) Dumonceaux and Hector (Joan) Dumonceaux. She is also survived by her brother-in-law Lavern Lizee, sisters-in-law Ceona Dumonceaux, Bertha Tinant and many many nephews and nieces. A graveside service was held on Saturday, May 9, 2015 at the Parish of our Notre Dame Cemetery with Father Guy Amedee Ainemon officiating. A lunch followed after the burial. Donations made to the Dr. Noble Irwin Health Care Fundraiser-Ponteix Project would be appreciated by the family. Lemieux Funeral Home in care of arrangement. For further information please call 306-625-3925 or visit our website at www.lemieuxfuneralhome.com and express your sympathy to the family in our book of condolence.

 

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