Elmourne-MacKinnon, Lillian

GBRO a écrit:Lieu de naissance : Margaree Forks, Nouvelle Ecosse, Canada
Lieu de décès : Neil's Harbour, Nouvelle Ecosse, Canada
Date de décès : 25 septembre 2012
Family members of Lillian MacKinnon announce that on Sept. 25, 2012, Lillian said her last round of her prayer beads, as she completed her journey on earth and passed peacefully to her eternal rest. At the time of her passing, she was a resident of Highland Manor, Neils Harbour.
She was born in 1905 at Margaree Forks, the daughter of the late William Elmourne and Emma Tompkins.
A 1923 graduate of Provincial Normal College, Truro, she was hired in 1925 to teach at the Ridge School in Cape North.
In 1927, she married Kennie MacKinnon of Cape North and they moved to Boston, returning to South Ridge in 1931. They moved to Dingwall in 1934, where in partnership with her husband, Lillian was engaged in transporting materials from the Cheticamp Gypsum Mine to the newly opened mine in Dingwall.
She operated the telegraph office and later the telephone office out of her home in Dingwall in the 1940s and 50s. She then moved to Sydney, where she acquired and managed several rooming houses in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Shortly after her husband’s death, Lillian retired to Dingwall to live, until moving in 2004 to Highland Manor, where she received excellent care.
Lillian was noted for her cheerful and amiable disposition. Her acceptance of burdensome challenges throughout her life, served as a humble inspiration to those who loved her. Feelings of enrichment and goodness seemed to radiate from her quiet influence, often emerging in the form of humour, recitations, adages and particularly her sharing with others, vivid recollections about people and events of a bygone era.
Sons, Elmourne (Shelly) and Stanley; daughter-in-law, Doreen and son-in-law, Leo MacNeil survive Mrs. MacKinnon. Fifteen grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren also survive her.
She was predeceased by daughters, Effie (1944), Mary Ann (1953), husband, Kennie (1990), son, Kenneth (2003) and her only siblings, Tommy (1985) and Mary (1988).
Visitation will take place at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Dingwall from 4 p.m. until rosary at 8 p.m., today (Friday), Sept. 28, 2012, and one hour before funeral mass on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 11 a.m., Fr. Jake Andrea officiating. Interment in the old cemetery.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Cheticamp Funeral Services Ltd.