It is with great sadness that we, the family of Mary Ellen ‘Sis’ Keats, announce her passing on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, at the Glace Bay Health Care Facility.
Born in Glace Bay, she was the daughter of the late Samuel and Frances (Hicks) Keats.
Sis was employed as a housekeeper for many years. She was a lifelong member of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Dominion, where she was on the board of executors for many years and was a member of the choir and quilting club. Sis was also a member of Branch 78 Legion ladies auxiliary.
Sis will be sadly missed by her sons, Doug (Lilly) Keats, South Head, and Fred Keats, Ontario; one sister, Dora Keats, Dominion. She is also surviving by two loving granddaughters, Marlane (Jim) Gibbs, Gimli, Man., and Cheryl (A.J.) Hall, Glace Bay. Sis leaves behind four great-grandchildren she loved with all her heart, Caleigh Gibbs, J.D. Hall, Sinead Gibbs and Courtney Hall, along with many nieces and nephews.
Besides her parents, Sis was predeceased by her brothers, Henry, England, Jim, Dominion, two sisters, Frances Gallant, Dominion, and Susan Blundon, Ontario, and a granddaughter, Sharon Lynn Keats, in infancy.
Visitation for Sis Keats will be held today (Thursday) from 7-9 p.m. and Friday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. in V.J. McGillivray Funeral Home, 16 Reserve St., Glace Bay.
A funeral service will be held 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 21 at the Church of the Good Shepherd with Rev. Vernon Reid officiating.
Interment will be in the parish cemetery at a later date.
Donations in Sis’s memory may be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, Diabetes Association or the Church of the Good Shepherd, Dominion.
Online condolences to the Keats family are available through www.vjmcgillivray.ca.
“Mother”
“God took the sunshine from the skys,
and made the love light in your eyes,
From honeyed flowers He took the
dew, and made your tears,
unselfish, true, upon a rock
your faith He built.
With angel prayers your breath
He filled,
and with His love made your’s
divine,
But best of all, He made you mine.”

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