CARRIERE, Marcienne
Est décédée à l'Hôpital du Témiskaming de New Liskeard, au matin du 18 avril 2012, Marcienne Carrière, née Roy. Originaire du Lac-des-Plages dans les Laurentides, Marcienne a grandi à Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk, au Québec. Le 17 juin 1939, elle épouse Lionel Carrière, natif du même village. En 1948, Lionel et Marcienne décident de venir s'établir sur une ferme à Uno Park, dans le Nord de l'Ontario, avec leurs sept jeunes enfants. Sept autres enfants naîtront au Témiskaming ontarien. En 1974, ils quittent la campagne pour s'installer à New Liskeard. Marcienne, précédée par Lionel (1987) et son fils Michel (1967), laisse dans le deuil Lise (Gérard Grenier), Denise (Roger Hacquard), Guy (Huguette Bergeron), Ghislaine (feu Raymond St-Amour), Claudette (Jerry Brazeau), Huguette (Ray McChesney), Nicole (Roy Watchorn), Francine (feu Eddie Maillé), Micheline (Dan Duhn), Richard, Jean-Claude, Gaëtan (Maryse Moreau), André (Brigitte Ross), ainsi que de nombreux petits-enfants et arrière-petits-enfants. Marcienne était une avide joueuse de cartes, un cordon bleu et une couturière hors pair. C'était une personne intègre, sans rancune, qui avait son franc parler. Toujours en quête d'apprendre, elle a obtenu son permis de conduire à 65 ans et suivi des cours d'anglais à 80 ans et d'ordinateur de 90 ans jusqu'à son décès. La famille recevra parents et amis à la Maison Funéraire Perrin vendredi de 14 heures à 16 heures et de 19 heures à 21 heures. Les funérailles seront célébrées le 21 avril à 14 heures en l'église Sacré Cur de New Liskeard. She was born at Lac des Plages, which is in the Laurentian, on St. Patrick's Day, 1920, the 3rd youngest of a family of 12. She and my dad married just before the war in 1939 and settled on a farm in a small village in St. Emile de Suffolk, which is north west of Montreal. After 9 years of marriage and 7 children, they decided to move to Northern Ontario, so they packed up all their children, the dog and all their belongings and moved to Uno Park. I still remember mom recalling how lonely she had been in those days but she would look at the kids happily playing together and that helped ease her pain. All their neighbours spoke only English and so they couldn't communicate with one another. My dad spent his winters working in the bush camp and she was left alone with the 7 kids to look after the farm and the older siblings although very young, would help with the chores. Then came 7 more children but by then we had moved to the farm in Harley Twp. She raised 14 children plus taking in 3 Foster children and some of her grandkids that needed a place to stay. She was pretty strict with us all, you learnt at an early age that you best do your chores right the first time or you would have to do it all over again. Many a night she would come upstairs strap in hands and telling us that it was time to get to sleep, being 5 to a room, plus more in the adjacent rooms, as you can imagine, we had fun telling stories or scarring each other but as soon as she turned to go back downstairs, we would be giggling and carrying on in a lower voice. She would sew late into the night making all of our clothes, she would knit endlessly and I can still see her polishing our shoes so we could all look our best for Sunday mass as this was so important to her. She taught us integrity, independence, good work ethic, confidence in our selves, how tho share with one another, and to always include in our games the less fortunate at school. She loved her boys and loved to spoil them, which would get us girls chuckling over this. When she would find out that one of them was coming home for a visit, even though her house was always spotless, she would do extra cleaning. When my dad was no longer able to drive, at age 65 she bought herself a car from money she had saved, took the Drivers' Ed Course, and drove right until last fall. Living only on her Old Age Pension, she always found a way to put money aside in case her kids or grandkids needed help and we always knew we could borrow as long as we paid her back as someone else might need it she would say. Always one to keep her mind active, she, until last Christmas, at 91 yrs of age, was still taking computer lessons and recently told us how she missed her classroom friends as this meant a lot to her. She was excited being able to keep in contact with friends, family and especially relatives in the Montreal area. She also mastered face book and I will never forget last fall when my husband Ray told me with a chuckle that mom had asked him to be her friend on face book. We know you will watch over us mom, we will miss you and we love you.
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