KNIGHT, DORIS - Doris Caroline Knight (nee Hoyt) of Lower Jemseg died peacefully at the Oromocto Public Hospital on May 9, 2014. Born May 17, 1922 at Lower Norton, she was the daughter of the late Fenwick and Dorothy (Hendricks) Hoyt of Lower Norton. She was a proud member of the United Empire Loyalists. After graduating from nursing at the Saint John General in 1943, she worked her way across Canada and back with friend and nurse colleague, Mary Miller, before marrying Harry Knight in 1948 and settling in Lower Jemseg. Besides raising her four children, offering homecare nursing, and helping manage the family business, she was a very active member of the local Anglican Church, and a Life Member of the ACW and Women’s Institute. She was a Junior and Girl’s Auxiliary leader, promoted 4H, and was a member of the School Board. After her husband’s death, she worked as a nurse at the Bethel Home, Gagetown, and Mill Cove Nursing Homes. In her retirement, she was an avid quilter and gardener. She enjoyed summers at her “Knight’s Rest” cottage on Grand Lake where she would hold forth with nightly poetry recitations around the camp fire. Doris is survived by her daughter, Betty Snodgrass (Stephen), and sons, Jim (Brenda), Peter (Sheila) and Henry (Nancy); 10 grandchildren and three step-grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild; her sisters, Ruth Herd and Irene MacMackin and numerous nieces and nephews. Besides her parents and husband, she was predeceased by her granddaughter, Karen Snodgrass; brother, Jack; brothers-in-law Ronald Herd, Douglas MacMackin and Walter Knight, and sisters-in-law, Emily Gilbert and Frances Nevers (Allen).
Visitation took place from 1 to 4 and 6 to 9 pm at the Oromocto Funeral Home on Sunday, May 11. The funeral will be held at St James Anglican Church in Lower Jemseg at 2:00 PM on Monday, May 12. Interment will be in the adjoining cemetery with a reception to follow at the Jemseg Lions Club Hall. Donations in Doris’ memory can be made to the Parish of Cambridge and Waterborough or the St James Church Building Fund. Personal condolences can be made through www.oromoctofh.com