Dorothy 'Joan' (McClair) Morais
Lieu de décès : Pictou, Nouvelle Ecosse, Canada
Date de décès : 12 février 2011
She was born, raised and died in Pictou, N.S. Of two siblings, she was the younger to her older sister, Mardie Curran, New Minas, N.S. Both children of parents, Dorothy Margaret (Fyfe) McClair of Pictou, born in New Westminster, B.C. (deceased in 2009) and Elmer Andrew McClair of Pictou, born in Boston, Mass. (deceased in 1954), they ran McClair’s Bakery in Pictou for many years.
After high school graduation from Pictou Academy, Joan attended Normal College in Truro for a few months but quickly realized nursing was her calling. She obtained her R.N. from the Victoria General Hospital School of Nursing in Halifax in 1966, then worked at The Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal for a short while. She worked next at the Vancouver General Hospital in B.C. Later she returned to the V.G. Hospital in Halifax, becoming a certified profusionist and worked mostly in dialysis at the kidney unit, and team member in kidney transplants. She went back to school and attended Dalhousie University to get her Bachelor of Nursing Degree. She welcomed the challenge to teach R.N. students at her old school, The V.G. Hospital, Halifax.
Joan met and later married her love and moved to his tiny village of Big Pond, Cape Breton, and lived there for one year. She worked as instructor for the Atlantic Foundation for Occupational and Environmental Health in Sydney during that time. In 1983 she accepted positions at the local hospital and the Bay St. George Community College in Stephenville, Nfld. She taught C.N.A. students, worked on accreditation, helped standardize government exams, and later worked as shift supervisor and was involved in the O.R. In 1990, they moved back to Nova Scotia and she accepted a position at the Aberdeen Hospital, New Glasgow, in nursing management, until her retirement in 1997.
Joan’s husband, Clifford Morais, is one of three siblings born to Clair Duguay, of Bois Gagnon, and Hector Morais of Upper Tilley Road. Both originally from New Brunswick, they moved to Cape Breton after the Second World War.
Despite Joan’s resiliency and positive attitude while facing dying and death, her several cancers won out and took her life early Saturday morning, February 12, 2011.
Religious Ceremonies to be held at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, corner of Coleraine and Church Streets, Pictou, March 5, 2011 at 2 p.m., followed by a fellowship in the church basement. Interment/committal of ashes to be held at a later date.
Visitation will be held from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on March 4, 2011 in McLaren Funeral Home, 246 Faulkland St., Pictou, N.S.
Donations may be made to a charity of your choice, or help a neighbour or a friend.
