DORTHE VICTORIA (PETRI) MARR

Dorthe Victoria (Petri) Marr, 85, passed away peacefully at Emo Hospital in Emo, Ont. on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004 after a short illness.
Born in Beltrami County, Mn. on June 25, 1918, she immigrated with her family to the Blackhawk area in 1924.
Her education was by correspondence, but mostly by living life in the pioneer fashion. From a young age, she did farm chores and later worked alongside her father and brothers doing logging and pulpwood.
On April 4, 1945, she married Hedley Marr, and took on their own farm and raising their two children, Ellen and Tom. When the children were of school age, she returned to working in the bush alongside her husband.
She was always at his side doing the farm work and looking after the cattle, as well as finding time to sew new clothes for the children.
After a touch of cancer, Dorthe turned her time and talents towards babysitting the grandchildren, making quilts, doing embroidery work, and always baking bread, making cinnamon buns, pies, doughnuts, etc. for anyone she thought may like them or were too busy to make them themselves.
She took great pride in her garden, as well as flowers and houseplants. One highlight of the past several years was exhibiting things at the Emo Fair, always coming home with her share of red ribbons on all her entries.
The grandchildren, Anne (Tyler) McKinnon, Laurel (Murray) Armstrong, Murray Wilson (Pam Teeple), and Bradley (Terry) Marr always have held a special place in her heart.
And now that the great-grandchildren, Jillian and Jessi Armstrong, Cassidy and Cameron McKinnon, and Tyler and Mariah Marr, have arrived, they, too, have been a special delight to her, making sure they were always taken care of in the right way!
Dorthe was predeceased by her husband, Hedley in 1989; her parents, Victor and Clara Petri; brothers, Francis, Charles, and Victor (Sonny); sisters, Katherine (Sis) Snider and Helen Petri; brothers-in-law, Wilbert Snider, Jack Cameron, Jack and Frank Marr, and David Niven; and sisters-in-law, Marie Petri, Christine Roen, and Vera Marr.
She is survived by her children, Ellen (Dan) Wilson of Emo, Ont. and Tom (Lorna) Marr of Perch Lake (Atikokan, Ont.); four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are her sisters, Virginia Cameron of Stratton, Ont. and Elizabeth (George) Hawryluk of Shebandowan, Ont.; sisters-in-law, Carol Petri of Nestor Falls, Ont., Jean Niven of Minitonas, Man., and Mary Marr of Winnipeg, Man.; special cousin, Howard (Evelyn) Roen of Blackhawk, Ont.; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Feb. 13, 2004 at 2 p.m. at Green Funeral Home in Fort Frances, with Pastor Ken Johnson officiating.
Interment will take place in the Chapple Cemetery in Barwick at a later date.
Friends may visit prior to the funeral service on Friday, Feb. 13, 2004, from 12:30 until 1:30 p.m. at Green Funeral Home.
The honourary pallbearers will be Alvin McClain, Kent Johnson, Joe Georgeson, Murray Georgeson, Mike Gurski, Oscar Burnell, Ken Roen, and Tom Roen.
In memoriam donations may be made to the Emo Hospital, 260 Front St., Emo, Ont., P0W 1E0 or the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, 920 Frenette Ave., Fort Frances, Ont., P9A 3N4.