Colin Francis Livingstone
Lieu de décès : Evanston
Date de décès : 12 juin 2016
Colin Francis Livingstone (1915-2016) of Little Judique, Cape Breton passed away peacefully surrounded by his family, June 12, 2016 at Strait-Richmond Hospital, Evanston.
Colin was the youngest of eight children of Isabel (MacDougall) and Alexander Livingstone, born at the old homestead in Harbourview into a hardworking Scottish Highland Catholic rural farming family, primarily Gaelic speaking. “Big Collie” had a rich and rewarding life in which “early-to-bed-early-to-rise” forever fuelled his strengths. By the time he was a young adult in the 1930s, he had received formal training in what was to become his lifelong profession, carpentry.
Drawn by excitement and duty, Colin joined the Canadian Army in 1942 and, in respect for his size, was quickly made a Provost Marshal on the military trains, charged with policing Canadian troops headed for the east coast (and onward to Europe) and German POWs going to various prison camps during the Second World War.
It was on a stopover in Montreal in 1942 that he met the woman he was to marry, his soul mate Elizabeth MacDonald of Pleasant Valley, Antigonish. They married Sept. 2, 1944 in Montreal. In 1958, Colin became an in-house carpenter for the Inverness County District School Board, where he worked for the next 35 years.
He leaves to mourn children, Jean (Michael) Anderson, Avondale, Marion (Charlie) Graham and Coleen (Harold) MacDonald, Judique, Leon, Cathy (John) Cotton, and R.J. (Anne Marie), Little Judique, Ambrose of Iqaluit, Nunavut, and Sheila (Kevin) Kelly, Ottawa. Loved by 32 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren, many nieces, grand-nieces, nephews and grand-nephews.
He was predeceased his loving wife of 59 years, Elizabeth (2004) and grandsons, Jeffrey Graham and John Colin Kelly.
He is survived by the last remaining member of his immediate family, sister, Florence MacDonald, age 103, Bridgeport, Glace Bay,
Visitation will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, June 16th at the Port Hood Funeral Home. Funeral mass to take place Friday, June 17th, 11 a.m. at St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, Port Hood with Fr. Bernie MacDonald officiating. Interment will be in St. Peter’s Parish Cemetery.
Donations in Colin’s memory may be made to Palliative Care, Strait-Richmond Hospital, to St. Peter’s Cemetery Fund, or a charity of choice.
