Mamie MacKenzie
Born In: Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Born: March 8th, 1914
Passed in: Pictou
Passed on: December 7th, 2013
It is with sadness that we announce the death of our mother, sister, aunt and friend on Saturday, December 7, 2013 in Pictou at the Maritime Oddfellows Home, Pictou, where she resided for the last four years.
She formerly lived in Antigonish and Halifax.
Born in Antigonish on March 8, 1914, she was the eldest of eight children of the late Aubrey and Lillian (Crittenden) Williams of Mulgrave.
She will be lovingly remembered and forever missed by her daughter Judith and son-in-law David Trumbo of Pictou. She married John Hugh MacKenzie of Christmas Island in Toronto on September 1, 1941 and graduated as a Registered Nurse from St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing, Glace Bay, in 1942. Mamie moved to Pictou in 1998 to be closer to her mother and her sisters. Surviving are her sisters Irene Brydges, Pictou, NS and Shirley Picken, Hamilton, ON; brother Gary (Norah) of Qualicum Beach, BC, and several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by John Hugh on February 29, 1988; sisters Mona Higgins, Bernice Williams and brothers Sumner and Earle.
Cremation has taken place. Visitation will be at C.L. Curry Funeral Home, Antigonish on Thursday, December 12 from 11 a.m. until time of funeral at 1 p.m. in St. Ninian’s Cathedral with Father Martin MacDougall presiding. If it is your wish to make a donation in Mamie's memory, please consider a donation to the Maritime Oddfellows Home in Pictou for use in their palliative care program, or to the charity of your choice. Mamie will be remembered, missed, mourned and never forgotten. She was a great lady!
