JEAN BREUSTEDT (HUTTON) -

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JEAN BREUSTEDT (nee HUTTON) 1938 - 2001 Jeanie passed away peacefully December 19, 2001 at Concordia Hospital after a long fight. Jean was predeceased by her husband Freddie, her mother and father and her brother Peter Hutton. She leaves to mourn her children, Lana, Bruce (Tracy), Juliet (Claude) Gagnon; her sister Isobel (Bob McEwan and family) sister-in-law Rhoda and family; also many relatives in the UK and US. She also leaves to mourn her beloved grandchildren, Devon, Olivia, Callum, Alison, Aidan, Andrew and Tanner. Jean was born in Auchterarder, Scotland where she grew up. She married Freddie in Edinburgh in 1958. They moved to Coventry, England eleven years later and then to Winnipeg in 1975. She was employed with the Winnipeg Police Service until she retired in 1998. The family would like to thank the staff at the Health Sciences Centre, from a previous stay and the staff from the third floor in Concordia Hospital, you really helped make her last days more bearable. In accordance with Jeans wishes, cremation has taken place and there will be no formal memorial service. Instead she asks that those who knew her think of her fondly from time to time. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Liver Foundation would be greatly appreciated. WHAT IS DYING? A ship sails and I stand watching till she fades on the horizon and someone at my side says "She is gone". Gone where? Gone from my sight thats all; she is just as large as when I saw her... The diminished size and total loss of sight is in me, not in her and just at that moment when someone at my side says, "She is Gone", there are other voices who are watching her coming. Other voices take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" And that is dying. - Bishop Brent REMEMBRANCE is presence in absence It is speech in silence It is the ceaseless return of a past memory.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Dec 22, 2001