Passed away February 18th, 2018 at Charles S. Curtis Memorial Hospital in St. Anthony at the age of 82 years. She leaves to mourn with tender and loving memories her sons Edmund (Maggie), Lester (Daphne), Winsor (Patsy), Garold, and Boyce (Joyce) Hughes; daughters Marie (Uriah) Hughes, Carol (Dan) Coombs, Doreen (Mait) Noseworthy, and Melina (Colin) Macdonald; step-daughters Vivian (Max) Snow, and Maisie (Lloyd) Hughes; step-daughter-in-law Daisy Hughes; sister Christina Woodward; 29 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren as well as a large circle of extended family and friends. Effie was predeceased by her husband Lawrence, son Melvin, daughter-in-Law Burnett Noseworthy, stepdaughter Hazarett Hughes, stepson Enos Hughes, and grandsons, baby boy of Carol and Dan Coombs, and Tyke Hughes. Visitation took place at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Lower Cove from where the funeral was held on Wednesday, February 21st at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Omar Reyes officiating. Interment followed in the Green Island Brook Anglican Cemetery. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Kerry M. Fillatre’s Funeral Home, St. Anthony and Roddickton.