Pauline Theresa Camp (Christian)
Born: May 19th, 1931
Passed on: July 20th, 2008
Pauline Theresa Camp (Christian) passed away peacefully in her sleep in her new home in Annandale in Wolfville. She died Sunday morning, July 20, 2008, feeling loved and cared for by family and friends. She was born May 19, 1931, in Halifax, N.S. She was predeceased by her loving husband of 55 years, William Evans Camp and beautiful daughter, Elizabeth Jean Mary (Betty) Smith. She was also predeceased by her parents, William ‘Roy’ Christian and mother Elizabeth ‘Lillian’ Morrow, brother, Morris Graham Christian and sister, Pauline Mary. Pauline grew up in White’s Lake where her father owned the Texaco gas station, a community gathering place. She met her husband, William at that gas station when he asked her out for dinner. She was 17 and as she tells it, she wasn’t letting him get away. They married Jan. 30, 1951. She raised four children, Elizabeth Jean Mary (Betty) Smith, husband Gary; granddaughters, (Tabitha) and Roger Wagg; great-granddaughters, Alyssa and Kayla; grandaughter, Amanda Smith; great-grandson, Brayden, (Terrence Bay); son, William Evans Camp (Billy), wife Wendy and granddaughters, LoriAnne and Victoria (White’s Lake); daughter, Bev, husband James Roy; granddaughters, Jessica and Laura (Canning); son, Barry Arthur James, wife Christine and grandsons, Kevin and Ryan (New Glasgow). She is also survived by her sister, Jean, husband, Cyril Welsh and their children, Cyril, Roy and Pam. They moved to Cape Breton when Bill took a job as a seamanship instructor at the Canadian Coast Guard College. While in Cape Breton, Pauline took a nursing course at Spring Garden Villa in Sydney and graduated. She worked 12 years at the nursing home and did private duty in homes and hospitals. She loved taking care of people, a gift she passed on to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She will always be remembered for her kindness, generosity, sense of humour and her love for her family and friends. Her one hope for all her grandchildren is to get an education and achieve the goals they set for themselves and follow through on them. This is her one wish in life and they all are working hard to achieve that goal for their Nanny and Poppy. Visitation will be held at Atlantic Funeral Homes, 6552 Bayers Rd., Halifax, from 2-4 and 7-8 p.m., Wednesday. A chapel service will be held at 8 p.m. in the funeral home. Condolences may be sent online to jbroy@xcountry.tv. Family Flowers only. Donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society in her memory. “To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ~ Thomas Campbell Those we love don’t go away; they walk beside us every day. Unseen, unheard, but always near, so loved, so missed, so very dear.
