Theresa Meleta King
Born In: Bras d'Or
Passed in: Boularderie
Passed on: March 19th, 2014
It is with heartfelt sadness we announce the sudden passing of our beloved sister Theresa Meleta King, after a short illness, on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, at the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax.
Born and raised in Bras d’Or, the daughter of the late Leonard and Mary Ida (Cantwell) King.
Meleta taught school there for 38 years. She was an avid gardener and loved to travel with her younger sister Coletta. She was a member of St. Joseph Church, Bras d’Or.
Meleta is survived by her sisters, Gloria Nicholson, Claudia (Earl) Warhus, Miriam (Thomas) Boudreau, all of Bras d’Or, Celesta (Nelson) Johnston, North Sydney, Monica (David) Beaton, Scotch Lake, Coletta, Halifax; and her brothers, Damian (Carol), P.E.I.., Wayne (Ann Marie), North Sydney, Paul (Patricia), Southside Boularderie, Kennedy (Julia), Scotch Lake, and Chickie (Linda), Bras d’Or; her brother-in-law, Danny Handley and sister-in-law, Cathy (Marsh) King. Also surviving are many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and nephews, aunts and uncles.
Meleta shared fun and good times with life time friends Marg MacEachern and Colleen Musgrave.
Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her brother Pius King, an infant brother Gerard, her sister Audrey, niece Jacklyn Nicholson, nephews, Gerard King, Roger Warhus and Tyler MacMullin and brother-in-law John Nicholson.
Visitation for Meleta will be held from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. today (Friday) in the W.J. Dooley Funeral Home, 107 Pleasant St., North Sydney. Funeral mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday at St. Joseph Church with Rev. Peter McLeod officiating. Burial in St. Joseph Parish Cemetery, Bras d’Or, at a later date.
Memorial donations may be made to St. Joseph Church Cemetery Fund.
Online condolences may be sent to www.wjdooley.com.
