Martha 'Tootsie' Vaters
Lieu de naissance : Glace Bay
Lieu de décès : Glace Bay
Date de décès : 19 novembre 2014
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our Mom, Martha Vaters on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, surrounded by her loving family.
Born in Glace Bay, she was the daughter of the late Albert and Christina (Peterson) Cluett. Martha was a former member of Epworth United Church, Glace Bay.
Martha was a very loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and aunt to many special people. Throughout Martha’s life her love for cats shined bright. There was never a cat in the neighbourhood left out in the cold. Her three treasures, Princess, Pepper and Hoppy will miss her at home.
She will be deeply missed by her loving family, sons, Albert (Ann), Basil (Bernadette), John (Rhonda), Stevie at home and her daughter, Linda (Joey).
Also left to mourn her passing are grandchildren, Leonard, Jolene, David, Larry, Samantha, Lucas, great-grandchildren, Cody, Nick, Alex and Zoe, her sister, Frances Keeping and her brother, Jimmy, her nieces and nephews, especially Tena Moore.
Besides her parents, Martha was predeceased by her loving husband, Leonard Vaters, sisters, Laura Yorke, Alberta Moore, a girl in infancy and her great-granddaughter, Ceilidh Grace.
Visitation will be held on Monday from 2-4, 7-9 p.m. in V.J. McGillivray Funeral Home, 16 Reserve St., Glace Bay.The funeral service officiated by Rev. Donald MacDonald is 2 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home chapel. Cremation will follow with a private burial in Greenwood Cemetery at a later date.
As an expression of awareness of Martha’s life, memorial donations in her memory may be made to your local, SPCA.
Online condolences to the family can be expressed at www.vjmcgillivray.ca.
The Day God Took You Home
A million times
I’ve needed you
A million times I’ve cried,
If love alone
Could have saved you
You never would have died.
In life I loved you dearly,
In death I love you still.
In my heart you hold a place,
No one else can ever fill.
It broke my heart to lose you,
But you didn’t go alone
Part of me went with you,
The day God took you home.
