Agnes Christine Wadden
Passed on: July 3rd, 2008
93, Glace Bay It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Agnes C. Wadden at Victoria Haven Nursing Home, Thursday, July 3, 2008, at the age of 93, where she was a resident for the past year and half. She was a former resident of Dragatis Street, Glace Bay. Born in Broughton, C.B., she was the daughter of the late Malcolm and Sarah (MacInnis) MacKenzie. Agnes graduated from the Glace Bay General Hospital in 1940 and nursed in the Veteran’s Hospital in Cornwallis for two years. She then took a post graduate course in the Margaret Hague Hospital in New Jersey, U.S.A. Agnes then nursed at the Glace Bay General Hospital for 34 years and retired in 1979. She was a member of the Glace Bay General Hospital Alumnus Association. Agnes was a member of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Glace Bay. Agnes is survived by her niece and nephew, Mabel and Blair Wadden, (her care-giver). She was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Besides her parents, she was predeceased by two sisters, Annie Hall and Mary Hobbs. Visitation for Agnes will be Sunday, July 6 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at V.J. McGillivray Funeral Home, 16 Reserve St., Glace Bay. A funeral service will be held Monday, July 7 at 2 p.m. in the funeral home chapel with Rev. Michael Henderson officiating. Interment will follow in the Forest Haven Memorial Gardens on the Sydney-Glace Bay Highway. Online condolences may be sent to the Wadden family at www.vjmcgillivray.ca.
