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Harry Lawrence Devine

Born In: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Born: September 15th, 1944

Passed in: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Passed on: February 25th, 2012

DEVINE, Harry Lawrence – 67, of Yarmouth, passed away on February 25, 2012 in the QEII Halifax Infirmary. Born September 15, 1944 in Yarmouth, he was a son of the late Clayton and Adra (Crowell) Devine. Harry was a fisherman most of his working life and loved to play cribbage and hearts with the other fisherman at the shore. As a teenager, he would go to the Annapolis Valley to pick apples, and later worked in Ontario during the 60’s doing chrome plating. He loved to go 4-wheeling and snowmobiling in New Brunswick and enjoyed deer hunting and going to Newfoundland to hunt moose. He also used to go shark fishing every year. He and his wife, Marilyn, loved to travel together and they enjoyed camping with their grandchildren as well as following The Blue Grassers. Harry was always on the go and could usually be seen driving around with his friends. He was a very loving husband, father, papa and will be missed by wife, Marilyn (Hopkins); daughter, Sheila (Mark) Devine-Corporon, Brooklyn; brother, Clay (Janine), Yarmouth; sisters, Joyce (Ralph) Hendry, Cambridge, Ont.; Ruth (Walter “Wally”) Deveau, Port Alberni, B.C.; granddaughters, Paige and Emma Corporon; as well as several nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by daughter, Heidi and brother, Russell. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Sweeny’s Funeral Home & Crematorium, Yarmouth. Visitation took place on Friday, March 2 from 7-9 p.m. at Sweeny’s Funeral Home Chapel. A funeral service was held Saturday, March 3 at 2 p.m. at Yarmouth Wesleyan Church, Rev. A.D. “Bill” Newell officiated. Interment will take place at a later date in Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery. Family flowers only, please. Donations in Harry’s memory may be made to the Nova Scotia Heart and Stoke Foundation or the Children’s Wish Foundation. On-line condolences may be sent to: sweenysfh@eastlink.ca or you may sign the guestbook on-line at: www.sweenysfuneralhome.net

 

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