McCAVOUR HATFIELD, DORIS
Doris (“Dody” to her friends and family and “Dodo” to her grandchildren) I. McCavour Hatfield (nee Colwell) passed away peacefully in her sleep at Thomas Hall (Shannex), in Fredericton, early on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at the age of 90. Born on May 12, 1936 in Saint John, Doris was the daughter of the late Cecil and Alberta Colwell.
Doris graduated from Saint John High School and lived most of her life in her beloved Saint John. In her later years, she moved to Fredericton to be closer to her daughters but missed Saint John and her friends and extended family, shopping, familiar faces, and lunches with the “girls”. Her favourite part of the drive to Saint John was when she rounded that last hill and saw the Bay of Fundy and Saint John before her. She always said that the air was fresher and clearer in Saint John. As well as being a wife, mother, grandmother and eldest sister in a family of eight, she worked as a Laboratory Assistant at the Provincial Lab in Saint John following the early and unexpected death of her first husband, Percy.
Doris is survived by her daughters, Brenda McCavour of Fredericton and Debbie Ruddock (Peter) recently of Calgary, Alberta and formerly of Fredericton; her grandchildren, Andrew Watters of Melbourne, Australia, Rachel Watters (Kev Bourque) of Fredericton, Kevin Ruddock (Kathryn) and Erica Ruddock (all of Calgary) and one very new and special great-granddaughter, Abigail (Abby) Bourque Watters, whose visits cheered her immensely. She is also survived by two brothers, Robert (Bob) Colwell and Ken Colwell (Carlotta) both of Saint John and two sisters, Norma Cairns of Edmonton, Alberta and Laureen Colwell of Fredericton, as well as many nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
Doris was predeceased by her first husband and the father of her children, Percy V. McCavour, and her second husband, William Hatfield, as well as by her eldest daughter, Linda A. Welsh. She was also predeceased by her brothers, Donald Colwell, Cecil Colwell and Murray Colwell.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Brenan’s Funeral Home, 111 Paradise Row, Saint John, NB. A memorial service will be held on Friday, April 1 at 12 noon in Brenan’s Funeral Home Chapel with interment to follow at Old Cedar Hill Cemetery. Following that, a reception will be held in Brenan’s Reception Centre.
For those who wish, donations in memory of Doris may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of NB, the Community Food Basket of Saint John, or the charity of your choice.
Online condolences may be placed at www.BrenansFH.com.
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Do take it slower.
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