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Anne MacLeod

Anne MacLeod

Lieu de naissance : Sydney Mines, Nouvelle Ecosse, Canada
Date de naissance : 17 décembre 1941

Lieu de décès : Halifax, Nouvelle Ecosse, Canada
Date de décès : 11 avril 2018

Our mother was first a ‘coal miner’s daughter'. She grew up in a beautiful house her father built, nestled next to a flower shop, with an enchanting view of the ocean. She stubbornly learned to knit on her own when she was deemed too young to join the older girls’ knitting club. Anne loved reading romance comic books, popular in the 1950s, and she enjoyed milk shakes with her father at the local bowling alley restaurant in Sydney Mines. Tragically, her father died in a coal mining accident, but her family bravely carried on and her mother, Christine, went to work as a bookkeeper at a gas station and managed to keep the family home.

Anne met her “handsome prince” - Danny - a tall, soft-spoken fisher from Louisbourg. They married in 1961, in Sydney Mines, and for fifty-two years they had many adventures together, including raising four children and two grandchildren. Anne, was, at heart, a teacher; she created a nursey school in her home, and she volunteered for many charities primarily dedicated to education and literacy.

She loved to make art – she played the organ, made crafts and wrote poetry. But her greatest gift she gave to her family, her time and love. She gently corrected our grammar at the supper table, and she spent many hours making Halloween costumes, birthday cakes and a million other things a mother does quietly and selflessly on which the world turns.

Anne died in her sleep on a sunny morning after courageously coping with dementia and kidney failure for over a year. Her children managed her care with the help of valiant caregivers. Our heartfelt thanks go to Dr. Mallery and the team of the PATH program in Halifax (pathclinic.ca) and our guardian angel, Wanda. But our mother’s story is much more than how she died, her legacy is how she lived; she cared for her own mother as dementia claimed her, and she was always aware and considerate of others, a wonderful lesson our mother, the teacher, gave us.

She remains in the hearts of her children, Tom, Nancy (Kingsley), Jeff (Charlotte) and Wendy, as well as her beloved grandchildren, Jordan and Brianna.
She is survived by her sister, Lois, and was predeceased by her father, Ralph, her mother, Christine, sister, Marilyn and brother, Bruce.

Cremation has taken place, please donate to the charity of your choice.


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