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GERTRUDE VERNE HARDY (nee JENKINS) It is with profoundly deep sorrow that we announce the death of our beloved mother at the Personal Care Home in Lac du Bonnet as she approached her 98th birthday. She is survived by her son William and his wife Jean and their five children, Christopher, Robin, Eloise and husband Rob Lister, Charles and wife Anathessia, Michele and her husband David Moffat, Christopher and Robin predeceased her. Her daughter Vivian Ratcliff and husband Ray and their sons Harold and wife Dorothy, David and wife Bonnie and Robert and wife Terry, daughter June Lucero and her husband Ernest and Junes daughters Donna Staite, Ellen and her husband Tim Dioguardi, Dru Paquin, Paula and her husband Robert Mueller, followed by Marshall Staite and his brother Ian and wife Janet. As well as her youngest daughter Patricia Allen and husband Theodore and their children, Mila Harwood, son Hardy Allen and wife Pami followed by daughter Alysia and her husband Moe, Marci Infanto and her husband Paul, her son Matthew Allen and his wife Renee. Mother leaves 19 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren and seven great great-grandchildren. Also surviving is her sister Mrs. Alberta Lewis of Morris, Man. She was truly a loveable matriarch of an extended family. Funeral service will be held on Friday, December 8 at 2:00 p.m. from the Lac du Bonnet Legion, Branch #164, Lac du Bonnet, Man., with Rev. Brian Rountree officiating. Services will terminate at the Legion with cremation to follow. Her cremated remains will be interred in the spring at the Riverland Cemetery beside her husband Vivian Clarkson Hardy who taught at the Riverland School in 1923 after which he taught at Brightstone. Her family roots were deeply imbedded in Lac du Bonnet. If friends so desire memorial donations may be made in her memory to the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Box 21008, 33-3900 Grant Ave., Winnipeg, Man., R3R 3R2. RUSSELL FUNERAL HOMES LTD. & CREMATORIUM of Beausejour & Lac du Bonnet in care of arrangements, 1-866-424-6271 (toll free) or 268-2263.
As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Dec 06, 2000
Condolences & Memories (2 entries)
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When I met Gertrude in 1988 in Lac du Bonnet, I asked her where she grew up. She said Listowel, Ontario. I said, so did I... where did you live? It was within a stone's throw where my family lived 1960 -63. Our house was on one side of the church.. her house (Presbyterian manse) on the other side of the church. I remember in her eighties, she would drive all of her 'younger' friends around, ... a real firecracker and delight to talk to. - Posted by: Kevin McMurren (Friend) on: Jan 22, 2023
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I don't think I ever saw her after I was about four-and-a-half years old, but she sometimes sent out newsletters to miscellaneous relatives, and somehow her way of writing impressed me. - Posted by: Mike Hardy (great-nephew) on: Jan 21, 2022