April 6, 1929 - December 17, 2009

On December 17th, 2009, we, the REID family, were deeply saddened by the loss of a dear wife, mother, grandmother and a great grandmother, after a lengthy courageous battle with dementia, spending nine years and six months in long term care on the 5th and 6th floors at Western Memorial Regional Hospital.

Our children, our extended family, and I are forever grateful for the professional medical treatment and loving care given to Lottie by Doctor Coleman and other assigned floor Doctors, Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Personal Care Attendants, specialist administering medical care, housekeeping staff and office staff.

Thanks ever so much to the early morning staff who made Lottie comfortable during her final hours. To see them going about their work and their compassion showing, - I heard their kind voices, I saw their facial expressions until my tears, partly for them and partly for Lottie, blinded me for a while. To those caring workers: Thank you, thank you, Thank you!

I want to sincerely thank the friends Lottie and I made during her stay at such a homely place and my many visitations with her, the hellos, the how are you, the wave of a hand and the stopping and chatting.

We gratefully acknowledged and appreciated the overwhelming expressions of sympathy - the Lab Table with a list of names on a sympathy card, likewise the Dietary’s card, phone calls, emails, sympathy cards, home visits, funeral home visits, gifts of food, floral arrangements, donations to charities.

I also wish to thank the Clergy\'s for the bedside visits, the Mennonites Hymn Singers bedside visits and other residents. Visitors would drop in to visit Lottie, which was very much appreciated.

Thanks to Rev. Kathy J. Brett for the beautiful church service, the choir, the readers, the ushers and the pallbearers.

Thanks you to son Tony for requesting and supplying “I Owe You” by Jimmy Dean. Also, to granddaughter Sherri-Lynn Jones for writing the eulogy. Thanks to Fillatres for the masterful setting at the funeral home and the utmost respectful grave site burial.

Husband, Gordon
Children: Karen, Gloria, Barbara, Tony and families.