Passed peacefully away on Sept. 9, 2013 at the Charles S. Curtis Memorial Hospital, Mrs. Bessie Pilgrim of Main Brook, NL in her 94th year. She leaves to mourn with fond and loving memories her children Leander (Isabella), Stanley (Shirley), Alice (Kenneth), Drucella (Douglas), Stella (Dennis), Herman (Gladys), Elsie (Alwyn), Cassie (Tom), Belinda (Brian), Mervin (Wavey), Melvin (Karen), Triffie (Edward), Margie (Yasin), and Raymond (Kim); thirty-eight grandchildren; fifty-nine great-grandchildren; twenty-four great-great-grandchildren; special nephew Hayward; two sisters Elizabeth Dorcas and Keziah (Fred); half-brothers Fred (Elsie), San (Eliza), Roy (Priscilla), Melvin (Carol), and Edgar (Shelia); half-sisters Joyce, and Velma (Morris) as well as many other relatives and friends. She was predeceased by her husband Benjamin, granddaughters Roxanne, Rosalie, Bonnie, and Julia, grandson Clayton, sisters Helen, Vera, and Rebecca, her parents George and Dinah (Allingham) Saunders, and half-brother Havner. Visitation was held at the United Church in Main Brook from where the funeral service was held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12 with Rev. John McGonigle officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Kerry M. Fillatre Funeral Homes, St. Anthony and Roddickton, Siobhan Mauger, funeral director.