Lillian Pearl Laing (nee Nicholls) Norris Point (War Bride of the Lizard, Corwall, England) Nov. 22, 1925 - Dec. 26, 2011. Pearl passed away at the Bonne Bay Health Centre in Norris Point on Monday, Dec. 26, 2011 after bravely fighting a short illness. Left to mourn are her loving children Maureen (Doug) House of Bellburns, Terry (Frances) of Curling, Corner Brook, Christine (Tom) Major of Pasadena, Eddy (Della) of Rocky Harbour, Bryant (Colleen) of Cow Head, Darlene (Geoff) Hancock of Beamsville, Ontario, and Marlene (Bob) Burden of Pasadena; son-in-law Neil (Barb) Hynes; 17 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren; sisters-in-law Ada Samms of Norris Point, Maude Boone of Corner Brook and Joan (Nicholls) Smith, and nephews Stephen and Leslie Nicholls and families in Whitstable Kent, England as well as cousins in Cornwall, London and the Isle of Man, UK. Long time neighbours and friends Jean and Maurice Knott, Aunt Lizzie Mudge, Lucy Hillier, Gussie and Jenny Mudge and Nancy and Hollis Howell. She was predeceased by her husband Joseph James Curling Laing, daughter Patricia, parents Dundonald and Dorothy Nicholls, brothers Edwin and Edgar Nicholls. Pearl arrived in Norris Point as a War bride on Feb. 27, 1946. she left England on Jan. 26, 1946 with her two-year-old daughter and husband and travelled by ship in a storm and eventually arrived in Lomond where they had to stay with relatives for the Habour to freeze over before coming to Norris Point on horse and sleigh exactly one month later to be greeted by a waving Aunt Nellie Mudge. She made many friends in many communities along the Northern Peninsula and loved to go to a time and was very happy in beautiful Bonne Bay. Visitation took place at the Anglican Church in Norris Point on Wednesday from where the funeral service took place on Thursday at 11 a.m. with Rev. Charlene Laing officiating. Interment followed at the family plot. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Parsons Funeral Home and Chapel, 63 North Main Street, Deer Lake. To sign the guestbook or send condolences visit www.parsonsfuneralhome.com
" Forever in our Hearts "