Janice Patricia MacDonald
Date de décès : 21 août 2008
38, New Victoria Janice Patricia MacDonald, 38, of New Victoria, passed away Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, at home surrounded by her loving family. Born in New Waterford, she was a daughter of Mary Delores (Neville) Roach, New Waterford and the late John James ‘Jimmy’ Roach. Janice attended and graduated from Breton Education Centre in 1988. She then moved on to the Sydney Community Health Center’s School of Nursing and graduated as a registered nurse in 1990. Janice and Joey began their married lives together in St. Stephen, N.B., where their children Renee and Ryan were born. Later, she moved back home to Glace Bay and had another son, Colin. Janice was employed in Glace Bay, New Waterford, and the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, Sydney. Janice had a very special way about her to always make people laugh. She loved to laugh and joke and enjoyed telling a good story to family and friends. She truly had a great love of life. Janice was loved and will be greatly missed by all, especially her children. Surviving are her children, Renee MacDonald, Ryan MacDonald and Colin MacDonald, all at home; brothers, Richard (Natalie) Roach, Wilmot, N.S., Terrence (Eleanor) Roach, New Waterford, Blair (Cherie) Roach, Victoria Mines; sisters, Darlene (Art) O’Keefe, Glace Bay, Johanna (Greg) McNeil, New Waterford; partner, Tony Boutilier, New Victoria. Janice was predeceased by her husband, Joey Maxwell MacDonald, father, Jimmy Roach, and sister, Debbie Roach. There will be no visitation. Cremation has taken place under the direction of V.J. McGillivray Funeral Home, 380 Smith St., New Waterford. A funeral mass of celebration will be held Saturday, Aug. 23 at 11a.m. in the Parish of St. Leonard, Mount Carmel Church with Fr. Paul MacNeil officiating.Interment will follow in Mount Carmel Cemetery. Following the burial, a luncheon will take place at Blair Roach’s house located at 45 Armada Dr., Victoria Mines. Online expressions of sympathy may be sent to the family at: www.vjmcgillivray.ca.
