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Heather Arthur posted a condolence
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
I met the Quinn family in 1961 when my family moved to Dartmouth from rural Nova Scotia. Sandy was the first person to come knocking on our door and we became friends. I fondly remember my numerous visits to the Quinn home. Full of love and activities.
I lost my Mom in August so am aware of the huge void left by our mothers. Enjoy the memories. Sending my condolences to all
Heather (Freeman) Arthur
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Georgia Fyfe posted a condolence
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Dear Pat, Alison and all the Quinn family
I knew your dear mother mainly from a lifetime of musings, reports and sharings from Pat who is my lifelong friend ... but I'll never forget meeting your mother when she hosted me overnight in her home in New Waterford ... it seemed she knew all about me before we ever met! Her gracious simplicity and sincerity made a lasting impression on me and I was always so happy to have her regards passed on to me from that time onward!
Cherish all the warm memories ...
--Georgia Fyfe
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Robert Woodfine lit a candle
Friday, May 29, 2020
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Sorry to hear of Marg's passing. It would be hard to find a nicer and kinder person. You were always welcome to come to sit, talk and share a cup of tea. She always welcomed us and our children who liked to check on the family turtle. What a great lady!
Our Sincere condolences to the family - The Woodfine Family
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Susan aucoin posted a condolence
Sunday, May 24, 2020
I remember your mom as the kindness, fair lady. I knew her from the garden club
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Kendra Coombes lit a candle
Saturday, May 23, 2020
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Please accept my deepest condolences on the loss of Margaret, I had the pleasure to see Margaret during my many visits to the Manor. My thoughts are with you all.
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John_chesal@ns.sympatico.ca posted a condolence
Friday, May 22, 2020
I have many fond memories of Margaret Quinn, from my teen years. I was a regular visitor to the Quinn home, and knew Margaret as a quiet spoken kind woman with a warm smile. Many evenings, a group of teenagers would take over the living room while Jack and Margaret watched tv in the dining room, never once did they throw us out! We we welcomed into their home and treated as guests. Many years later, I was delighted to renew my acquaintance with Margaret while visiting my own mother at the Maple Hill manor. We chatted about old times, and exchanged a laugh or two. Hers was a life well lived, and her passing leaves us all the poorer. Alison, Judy, Sandy and Pat, my heart breaks for your loss.
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Doris Grant posted a condolence
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Judy and family,
Mrs. Quinn was a wonderfully kind and gracious person. I learned a great deal from her and Mr. Quinn. I think of her often as I plant flowers in my own garden.
My sincerest condolences.
Doris Grant
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Jolene Jarvo posted a condolence
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Dear Sandy,Judi,Alison and Pat
We fondly remember your Mom as a wonderful lady - caring for both her family and their friends - we are sorry to hear of her passing and know she will be missed
With sympathy John and Jolene Jarvo
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ALEAH ROSE MACNEIL posted a condolence
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Dear Judy and family,Please accept my condolences on the death of your Mom. Aleah
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Sheri Burns lit a candle
Thursday, May 21, 2020
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My sincerest condolances to the family on the loss of your Mom. My Mother, Germaine Campbell was her neighbour for many years in New Waterford. My Mom thought highly of her & spoke of her often!
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MURIEL BLACKWOOD posted a condolence
Thursday, May 21, 2020
TO MARG'S FAMILY:MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO YOU ON THE PASSING OF YOUR MOTHER. MARG WAS A KIND AND LOVELY LADY. SINCERELY,MURIEL BLACKWOOD.
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Nancy Hubley posted a condolence
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Iam so sorry for your loss. Your Mom was a beautiful Lady and will be greatly missed.
Love Nancy Hubley
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Patricia MacLeod posted a condolence
Thursday, May 21, 2020
My deepest sympathy.
You are in my thoughts and prayers
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Shirley Antle-Kelly lit a candle
Thursday, May 21, 2020
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Judith and family, my sincere condolences on the loss of your dear mother. I worked with Jack in the mid 70s and met her then. Margaret was such a gracious lady - very pleasant, friendly and community minded. May your wonderful memories of her sustain you in the difficult days ahead.
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Wayne Connors posted a condolence
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Joan & I & our children lived across from Marg & Jack & their children for many happy & neighbourly years. They were warm & friendly & generous neighbours & friends. Marg was always puttering about her flower gardens, setting a good example, sharing her knowledge & some clippings for transplant. We remember them with love & affection. To the girls we offer our sympathy & condolences. She was a lovely person & we will remember the times we spent in her company.
Buzzy, Joan, Megan, Matthew & Luke.
Rae Owen Posted May 26, 2020 at 5:51 PM
Dear Pat & Family: Noticed the passing of your mother in the Chronicle Herald and was amazed at her age. What a wonderful life she must have had and how much change she experienced over her lifetime. Although we never had the pleasure of meeting her, she seems to have lived a full life. Those we love never leave us completely. They remain in our hearts forever. Our deepest sympathy to you and your family . If passing through Dartmouth, we’d love to see you. Mike and Rae
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Alison Margaret Chase posted a condolence
Thursday, May 21, 2020
I thought I’d spend the next few minutes with ya’ll, visiting and sharing, as they say in Charlotte, NC where I now live. I knew Mom only as a Mother – many of you knew her as friend and possibly knew her more intimately than did any of us daughters, with the possible exception of Judi who was Mom’s primary caregiver for many years before moving to the Manor. A person by necessity is different to each of us and so this is a glimpse of how Mom was for me.
1. Mom used to ask about how I was doing at work. I was a consultant and she didn’t always understand what I did as a “consultant”. I didn’t realize that she didn’t understand until one day she asked me if this current job would last. She said I know you are a hard worker and pretty smart so maybe this one would be the one. I suddenly realized that she thought that each client was a different employer and I was being “let go” after each one. She always had faith in me and my abilities, even when everyone else apparently didn’t.
2. She had the ability to get directly to what was important without worrying how she got there. For example, she didn’t really understand the technical work I did for my last employer, a large US bank. I loved my work and I’d launch into an animated description whenever she asked what I did there. Mom’s eyes would then glaze over (pretty much like everyone else’s, to be honest). Mom would stop me and ask if I was being paid a fair wage? Yes. If I liked what I was doing? Yes. If my bosses thought I was doing a good job? Yes. “Then that’s good dear. Now, what would you like for dinner?”
3. Mom was often not as articulate as all her children but she able to get her point across. I remember one family discussion where we were debating various points, mostly devil’s advocate stuff from the kids. She held up her hand, stopped us in our tracks and declared “Whether it is or it isn’t, it is!” I remember feeling slightly embarrassed that I had lost sight of the answer in my desire for the process.
4. She loved gardening… She said many times that “Good gardening is knowing when to do something and sometimes more importantly, when to leave things be.” The few living plants I have owe their lives to her.
5. She loved doing handiwork… mostly crocheting, embroidery, and crewel. Genes came down from her grandmother, who was a lace maker, and her mother, who once sewed the fancy work on rich ladies’ dresses in Boston before coming back to PEI. All of us girls are lucky to have examples of her skills as wall art and for everyday use.
6. Both my father and mother cooked. My dad did the fancy meals, Christmas, Easter, etc., when he was home from the Navy. But my mother cooked all the rest and so I think was the better cook as she consistently put good food on the table, day in and day out. I loved her baking powder biscuits. She said they weren’t as good as her mother’s, but then she didn’t use heavy cream and butter. I don’t either but if I did, I know I still wouldn’t have made them as well as either of them. I even went so far as to have Mom place her hands on mine so I could feel how she worked the dough. Nada. These were “Northern” biscuits, so different from the soft, greasy, fluffy “Southern” biscuits, all I can get now.
7. Mom knew how to keep a confidence. Whether it was about us “girls” or something else, she was aware of promises made and obligations accepted. I was talking to her about her picture that she had taken in Montreal when she was a young woman. It was during the war years and she was an inspector at a plant for wartime munitions. I asked her to tell me a bit more and she talked around it, finally saying that they were told not to discuss what they were doing. Seventy years later and still keeping promises made. She was known as the “Clam”.
8. I have two pictures of her in her 20’s, I think. She said she thought that the B/W picture wasn’t a good likeness of her. I asked why. She said that she thought it made her look kind of snooty and besides, she never really ever looked that good. I also asked about her other picture, the colorized one. It was made in Charlottetown after the war. She said it showed her crooked eye and never really liked it for that reason. I never knew she thought she had a crooked eye and still can’t see it in the picture.
9. She was always amazed that she lived for as many wonderful years and saw so much happen. She wished that she had been able to go to school longer. She never lost her desire to learn. She learned to swim when she was in her sixties. Read Popular mechanics and Scientific American till her reading eyes went. “Not that I understand everything I read,” she said to me “but it is important to try.” I believe my mechanical leanings came from my Dad but my general overall and wide-ranging curiosity definitely came from her.
10. Mom appreciated simple pleasures. One time she and Dad came to visit me in Halifax. Not sure where Dad was but Mom and I went down to the Hotel lounge to have a drink. There was a singer playing a guitar. Mom walked right up to the front of the room and sat at the closest table. When the waitress came, she didn’t know what to order… a scotch, gin and tonic, some sherry – big decision – Dad always ordered for her, you know. She ate all the peanuts, clapped at all the songs, and thanked the young lady when she left. She made all of us (5 plus bartender) feel good with her general happiness of the evening.
11. She loved parades. No matter how big or small… the Coal Dust Days parade, New Waterford’s Christmas parade, Natal Day parades. Didn’t matter to her – “could be two old cars and a fire engine” … she loved them all. Simple pleasures.
12. Mom loved to travel. She didn’t travel much until Dad retired and would have gone almost everywhere if she had had the resources and health to do so. She missed it as she got older and traveling became harder and harder. She told me once that “All travel leaves us with either good memories or good stories.” So true.
13. I believe Mom was patriotic. I had moved to the United States and have been living here for more than 30 years now. I finally asked her if she would mind if I got American citizenship. She looked at me and said, “Alison, you’re living in the United States. You’re earning your livelihood there, of course you should become a citizen! You have obligations to your new country and you must start doing them.” I guess I never really expected her to say that. I had expected her to mention something about being Canadian or remember your homeland or any one of a number of other things. But not her. For me, she always had a well-defined grasp of the obvious.
14. Mom was a person of faith. She was Catholic of course, coming from a long line of Irish Catholics, but Dad was a Scots Calvin Protestant. Now-a-days, that doesn’t make a lot of difference but back when they got married it was a big deal. One story I heard was that when Dad told his mother that he was going to marry Mom, she said nothing about her religion, only “An Irishwoman, Jack? An Irish woman?” When Mom’s parents were told, they sent the hired man back into the woods to “run it through twice” as PEI was still under prohibition. I don’t know if these stories are true but I would like to think that I come from a long line of tolerant people. One thing I do know for a fact is Mom taught me never to let Religion get in the way of Faith. Mom had a personal relationship with God and churches were just a convenient institution. It was Faith that was necessary and important for her.
I guess I’ll end now. Like I said at the beginning, these memories may have flaws but they are how I choose to remember my Mom. I loved her and will miss her. Rest in Peace, Mom… you’ve earned it through a life well-lived. I should be half so lucky.
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Donna (Andrews) MacRury posted a condolence
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Dear Judi, Alison, Patricia and Sandy
Thinking of you all as you celebrate your mother’s life well lived.
Both she and your father were always so welcoming and kind as I remember from the times I spent at your home in the early 70’s.
I hope your happy memories ease your loss.
Please accept my sincere condolences.
Donna (Andrews) MacRury
Alex Fraser lit a candle
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
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Grammie was one of the best ladies in the world that raised four amazing daughters. All of whom are strong and bright and full of life, just as she was. I remember Grammie being quite funny, and sweet when we would go to visit her when we were young. Jacob, Nathan, Rob and I will miss you greatly
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Joan Adams posted a condolence
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Our deepest sympathy to Sandy ,Pat ,Allison ,Judy and families in the loss of their Mother and Grandmother.Remember the summer trips to Village Green and the visits to the Mitchell's farm learning to milk . Not a easy job to get milk with your hand. Love Joan Adams and family
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