BETTY GERVAIS

It is with great sadness that the family of Marie Elizabeth (Betty) Gervais announces her passing on Monday, May 21, 2012.
She had been courageously fighting cancer for the last few months, but passed away in the home she loved.
Elizabeth was born to the late Carl and Elizabeth Olson in Winnipeg, Man. and had three brothers. The family lived in various places, including Winnipeg, Welland, Uchi Lake, and Sioux Lookout, Ont.
During the early years of WWII, while living in Welland, Betty was employed making artillery shells in the American steel plant. Back in Sioux Lookout, she met and married the love of her life, Joseph Gervais. Together they raised four children.
After their wedding on Aug. 21, 1948, she and Joe lived in Sioux Lookout, where she worked for the Hudson Bay Company and the Sioux Lookout Telephone Company, until moving to Rainy River, Ont. in 1951.
There she worked for the Bell Telephone company until moving to Fort Frances, Ont. in 1962.
While lovingly raising her family, she also worked at a number of local restaurants, where she was well-renowned for her cooking and baking. Most of all, she enjoyed working at the Fort Frances Clinic and Rainycrest, where she was making a difference and contributing to the welfare of others.
Betty loved to garden, as well as putter around the house and cottage, but mostly enjoyed caring for her family and the home she and Joe lovingly built together. She also was a lifelong member of St. John’s Anglican Church and held office with the Fort Frances Lioness Club until it disbanded.
Elizabeth was predeceased by two younger brothers, Norman (Jean and family) and David. She is survived by her brother, Harold (the late Ella) and family of Dryden, Ont.
Also left to lovingly remember her are David (Monique), Jim (Irene), Michael (Sarah), and Susan Flemming (Eb); grandchildren, Lisa (Steven) and their son, Nicholas, Laurie (Jeff) and children, Tyler, Brooklyn, and Ryan, Teresa (David), Jason (Cherish) and daughter, Araya, Alina, and Dallas, and Annelise (Chris) and Kasey Hawrylak; as well as many nieces, nephews, and friends.
Visitation will be held Friday, May 25, 2012 from 7-9 p.m. at Green Funeral Home in Fort Frances.
A Eucharistic funeral service will be held Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 1 p.m., with Fr. Wayne McIntosh and Rev. Barb Murray co-officiating.
The pallbearers will be her sons, David, Jim, and Michael, and grandsons, Jason, Dallas, and Kasey.
The honourary pallbearers will be long-time family friends, Freda Yuill, Faith Adair, Dona Armstrong, and Judy Sprenger.
Interment will take place on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 1 p.m. at Riverview Cemetery in Fort Frances.
If friends so desire, in memoriam donations may be made to the CNIB, the St. John’s Anglican Church Memorial Fund, or Lions Millennium Park c/o Green Funeral Home, P.O. Box 427, Fort Frances, Ont., P9A 3M8.
Online condolences may offered at www.greenfuneralhomefortfrances.com
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Memory remains part of the heart forever.