SISTER MARIE-ANTOINETTE GOUSSEAU

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SISTER MARIE-ANTOINETTE GOUSSEAU (SOEUR MARIE LEON de LEUCHARISTIE) 1921 - 1999 Cest avec beaucoup de regret que la communaute des Soeurs du Sauveur annonce le deces soudain de leur chere Marie-Antoinette Gousseau, le 23 decembre 1999. Elle est decedee a lhopital Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes apres un stage de quatre mois au Foyer Notre-Dame. Outre la communaute des Soeurs du Sauveur, S. Marie-Antoinette laisse dans le deuil le seul frere survivant de sa famille, Eugene (Diane Beaudry), une belle-soeur Denise Gousseau (Pelland), de nombreux neveux et nieces et un bon nombre darriere petits neveux et nieces. Lont precedee vers le Pere par ses parents Henri Gousseau et Agnes Goffard, ses freres et soeurs Henri, Yvonne, Joseph, Leon et deux enfants morts en bas-age ainsi que deux demi-soeurs Caroline et Helene. Sr. Antoinette entered the novitiate of the Sisters of the Saviour in January 1947 and pronounced her perpetual vows in 1952. She celebrated her Golden Jubilee of religious life in September 1999. She gave all her life with such energy and devotion to numerous tasks among the young people, but for most of her religious life she worked with the sick and the aged. For ten years she devoted herself wholeheartedly in the infirmary at Foyer Saint-Joseph in Sherbrooke, Quebec, where she patiently accompanied the residents through their last years and days of their lives. For another five years, again in nursing, she worked with the Missionary Oblates in St Boniface giving generously of herself to the sick sisters. To get ready for her years of retirement she went in training at the Institut de pastorale de St.Boniface and then gave all her strength and faith to accompany, visit and be close to the elderly and the sick mostly at Holy Cross manor and in Precieux-Sang parish until she herself had to become a resident at Foyer Notre-Dame. Funeral Services will be held Wednesday, December 29 at 3:00 p.m. at the Notre Dame de Lourdes Roman Catholic Church with viewing prior to the service. Rev. Fr. Roland Lanoie will preside the Mass of the Resurrection. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Centre de Sante Notre Dame. Arrangements entrusted to the Adams Funeral Home, Notre Dame de Lourdes, MB.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Dec 28, 1999