Linda Aikens
Born In: Boisdale
Passed in: Upper Leitches Creek
Passed on: February 14th, 2014
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Linda Marie Aikens, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, godmother and friend, on Friday February 14, 2014, at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Sydney.
Born in Boisdale she was a daughter of the late Duncan and Marion (MacDonald) O’Handley.
Linda was employed as a PCW at the New Dawn Guest Home, Lingan and was working until the end of September. She enjoyed cooking and baking for friends, family and community events, helping with the New Dawn Bake sale was a special event every year. In years past she also enjoyed bowling with the woman on Wednesdays and the Friday night mixed bowling. She loved spending time with friends and family laughing, dancing and all who knew her know she enjoyed a good joke.
Linda is survived by her husband Charlie; her son Mark (Sheri), Langley BC; her daughter Tracey (Dana) Collins, North Sydney; grandchildren Josh & Sydney Aikens and Nicholas Collins (Amanda Styles); special godchildren Ray Aikens, Connie MacNeil, Meaghan O’Handley; special friends Cassandra, Aaron, Carol and Fred Martell. Also surviving her sisters Marguerite (Jimmy) Goode, Dutch Brook, Renee Rudolph, Lethbridge, AB, Ann (Earl) MacPherson, North Sydney, Sylvia (Norman) MacNeil, Halifax, Mary (Ed) Naugle, Dartmouth, Kay MacKinnon, Sydney Mines; her brothers James (Margie) O’Handley, Gerald (Sandra) O’Handley both of Boisdale, she will also be greatly missed by her brothers and sisters-in-law and all the Aikens family.
Besides her parents Linda was predeceased by a daughter Lisa; her sisters Bernadette MacDougall and Charlotte O’Handley.
No visitation by request. A funeral mass for Linda will be celebrated 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. Andrew Church, Boisdale with Rev Paul Abbass officiating.
Memorial donations may be sent to the Cancer Center, Cape Breton Regional Hospital or the Hospice Palliative Care of Cape Breton.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to W.J. Dooley Funeral Home, 107 Pleasant St., North Sydney.
Online condolences may be sent to www.wjdooley.com.
