Passed away after a courageous battle with cancer, in the presence of her Dutch family, on August 11th, 2011. Leaving to mourn her partner, Kars Meyboom and his family, her mother Gail Catto, (Norm), her father Jim Thistle (Barbara), her step mother Jan Dicks, her grandparents Mary and Jim Thistle (St. John’s) and grandmother Elizabeth Sellars (B.C.), brothers Paul Thistle, Alan Catto and Michael Thistle, and sister Rachel Thistle, along with a wide circle of family and friends in Canada and the Netherlands.
Memorial Services will take place in Rijswijk, the Netherlands Wednesday August 17th, 2:30 to 4:30. Followed by Visitation at Carnell’s Funeral Home, 329 Freshwater Rd, St. John’s NL, Friday August 19th, 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. with a Memorial Service on Saturday August 20th at 11 a.m. from the Carnell Memorial Chapel, followed by a Memorial Service in British Columbia August 30th, 2011. To sign the memorial guest book or to send a message of condolence please visit www.carnells.com.