DOROTHY ANNE MCKILLOP (NELSON)

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DOROTHY ANNE MCKILLOP (nee NELSON) Dorothy passed away peacefully in her sleep early Sunday morning, November 30, 2008 at the St. Norbert Personal Care Home, Winnipeg, Manitoba at the age of 97. She will be lovingly remembered by her daughter and husband, Judy and Bob Roehle of St. Norbert; granddaughter and husband, Candace and Joseph Partyka, great-granddaughters, Sophia, Isabella, and her namesake, Maeve Dorothy, all of Winnipeg; grandson and wife, Kenton and Jessica Roehle of Vancouver; and sister Isabel Milne of Winnipeg; also a niece Fern Milne and four nephews and their families - Hugh Milne, Grant Milne, Wayne Warnock and Blaine Nelson. Dorothy was predeceased by her father Hugh in 1940, her mother Elizabeth in 1986, by a brother John in 1991 and a sister Ruth in 2001. Dorothy was born in 1911 in the Municipality of Wallace and raised in Elkhorn, MB. She married Bill McKillop in 1939 after which they lived in Elkhorn, Virden, Brandon and Winnipeg. So that she could be at home with Judy, her three year old daughter, following Bill's untimely death in 1948 from cancer, Dorothy took on a number of live-in domestic jobs in Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg. Always careful with her money, she was able to save enough to eventually buy a boarding house in Winnipeg, first at 459 Greenwood St. and then at 306 Langside St. She not only raised her daughter in a happy home, but she also acted as a mother and confidant to many young folks who were far from their own families and new to the big city. Many of her boarders became lifelong friends, their children and grand-children visiting her at the care home. Having raised her daughter, Dorothy took a job as a ward clerk at the Grace Hospital from which she retired in the early 1970s. During this period she lived at 467 Beaverbrook St., various apartments and the last 10 years in a cottage in Bob and Judy's backyard. Grandma Dorothy was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. She will be remembered for her gentleness, kindness and generosity of spirit. She taught us that money and material goods do not bring happiness. Rather it is through giving, serving and loving. We will remember her big Sunday dinners, her homemade cookies, her little acts of kindness, her concern for the down trodden but most of all for her kindly and Godly spirit. In words and deeds she lived by the Golden Rule. Our thanks to the staff of the St. Norbert Personal Care Home for their gentle and respectful care of Grandma these past seven years. A funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, December 5 at Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens, 4000 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Donations may be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Dec 04, 2008