MacRAE, BARBARA ANN - 1943-2012 - Barbara A. MacRae, of Riverview, passed away on Saturday, December 15, 2012 at the Dr. Georges L. Dumont University Hospital, Moncton. Born in Ville St. Pierre, PQ, she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Nieltje (Nellie) (Dekker) McCulloch. Barb retired from the CIBC Riverview branch in 1999. Prior to moving to Riverview in 1976, she worked for CIBC at the University Plaza in Charlottetown and Holman’s in Summerside. She was a longtime member of “The Lansdowne Ladies”. She loved attending those emergency meetings with her dear “coffee girls” and will be dearly missed. Spending Sunday afternoons at the Legion, playing a good game of bridge or in her spare time researching genealogy were but just a few of the many things that brought joy to Barb’s life. She will be dearly missed by daughter, Debby MacRae (Dale Killam) of Turtle Creek; son, Jeff of Riverview; sister, Jean Jackson (Graham) of Point Claire, PQ; brother, Robert (Bob) of St. Laurent, PQ; grandchildren, Jamie and Tim Doucette and Connor FitzGerald; special friend, Cliff Ryan of Petitcodiac; sisters-in-law, Isabelle Picketts of Margate, Joan (Vernon) Simpson of Summerside, PEI, and Janet Murphy of Seaview; brother-in-law, Clifford Picketts of Summerside; as well as by several cousins, nieces and nephews. Besides her parents, Barbara was predeceased by her husband, J. Bradford MacRae in 1996.
The family will be receiving friends and relatives at Cobb’s Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 330 Whitepine Rd., Riverview, NB (869-2007) on Tuesday from 6 to 9 pm and at Davison Funeral Home, Kensington, PEI on Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm. Funeral service to take place on Friday at 10:00 am from St. Thomas Anglican Church, Spring Brook with Rev. M. Fagan officiating with the interment to take place in the church cemetery. Donations made to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Children’s Wish Foundation would be appreciated by the family. Online condolences may be expressed at www.cobbsfuneralhome.ca