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Jean Bainbridge Cummings

Passed on: September 9th, 2011

CUMMINGS, Jean Bainbridge– Born March 23, 1919. On September 9, 2011 Jean passed away at St Clare’s Hospital in the company of Jean Fahey, her extraordinary care giver, and her only son Tim Cummings. And, although the end was peaceful, in the previous few months Jean did occasionally “rage against the dying of the light.” For some seven years she had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, and for the last three, she had been looked after by the staff at Fahey’s Personal Care Home. During her final stint at the home she would entertain with whimsical snippets from a varied life, well and truly spent. Jean was born on the outskirts of Newcastle, England, educated at St. Hild’s Teaching College — a part of the University of Durham, married an Australian airman whose life was lost as a result of “friendly fire,” emigrated to Canada with her mother, her younger sister and her son, and remarried a recently-ordained Anglican minister. From 1950 she spent most of her life in British Columbia and settled into the roles of home-maker, new mother to Jenefer, teacher, and, likely the most challenging of all, that of being the minister’s wife. Jean leaves behind a small coterie of friends and family who will both miss her and give thanks for her legacy. These include: her children Jenefer and Tim, her son-in-law Don, her daughter-in-law Kaaren, her grandson Jeremy, his wife Erika, her great-grandson William George and friends, colleagues, and parishioners from British Columbia, and recent friends from the Southern Shore of the Avalon Peninsula in NL. She requested that her ashes be scattered at a later date in her English village of Heddon-on-the-Wall, where her sister, her father, her first husband, and other relatives are buried. In the meantime, a memorial service will be held at Fahey’s Funeral Home in Fermeuse on Monday, October 24, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Flowers or donations of any kind are not necessary — a few good thoughts or well wishes, or possibly, a presence at the ceremony is all that is requested. For More Information: Email: faheysservices@nf.aibn.com Website: www.faheysfuneralhome.ca.

 

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