MARION ELIZEBETH HOPCRAFT BENNETT WOOLLARD

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MARION ELIZEBETH HOPCRAFT BENNETT WOOLLARD August 23, 1929 - June 6, 2002 Marion passed away peacefully at her home on Thursday, June 6, 2002, at the age of 72 years. Marion spent her childhood growing up in Winnipegs west end. Throughout her life she treasured her many memories of the times with her brothers and sisters on Sherburn Street. Marion attended Principal Sparling and Daniel McIntyre Collegiate. She was an avid roller skater at the old Winnipeg Roller Rink where, in 1947, she met her future husband Richard Woollard whom she married in March, 1952. Between 1953 and 1957, Marion gave birth to her four children, eventually raising them in the Blake Gardens (N1) area of Weston. She spent the next years doing what was most important to her in life: being a wife, a mother and a homemaker. Her children and later her grandchildren were always her centre. Marion was a wonderful listener, always available for tea and a good heart-to-heart. Marion loved sewing, knitting, crocheting, garage saling, ceramics, reading, piano, and going to the Assiniboine Downs Race Track with her family. Marion loved to be around young people, and they loved to be around her. In 1984 Marion co-founded the Foundations Learning Centre where she worked for many years teaching reading and writing to both young children and adults. She worked also in a receiving home for the Childrens Aid Society, and as a Counsellor on the Crisis Intervention Line at the Klinic. As a younger woman, Marion worked at Eatons, as a secretary with the Winnipeg School Division, as an Avon representative, and later in a number of retail positions. The last six months of Marions life have been a loving testimony to the strength of the family she raised and to the devotion of her brothers, sisters, and her many family and friends. Marion died at home as she had wished. The family is profoundly grateful to the home care workers, the nurses and doctors who cared for her. Marion is survived and mourned by her son Richard and his life partner Philip Dermott; her daughter Gail and husband Fred, and their children, Robert, Christopher, Fred and Richard; her son Michael and his partner Doreen Miller, and his children, Michael Jr. (and wife Lynsay and their son Kaelan), Adam and Genevieve, and Doreens daughter Cory; her son Kerry and Margaret Rose, and their children, Jamie and Geoffrey; her brother Jim Bennett and wife Shirley and their children, Edwin (Sam) and Tylor; her brother Joes children, Mitzy, Tracy, Ted, Margie, Richard, John and Joanne; her brother Ed and wife Rosa, and his children, Marilyn, Anthony, Catherine and Julie; her sister Jane Murray and her children, Joe, Paul, Tracy, Philip and Jayne; her sister June Bennett and her children, Steven, Roland Jr., Jay and Jodine; her sister Helen and husband Ramon Bogaert and their children, Robyn, Suzanne, Stephen and Leon; her uncle Arthur Hopcraft and her aunt Sister Anne Hopcraft; her aunt Myrtle Woollard; her sister-in-law Pearl Woollard Saul and husband Sydney, and her son Leonard Tokey; her sister-in-law Marcella Woollard; her sister-in-law Helen Woollard and her children Russell and Valerie; her sister-in-law Cecile Dennett and her daughter Cecile Stelle; her nieces and nephews, John Davis, Richard Davis, Gordon Arnaud, Brian Langevin, Linda Langevin Smith, Debbie Langevin Bernhard, John Slym; friends Janice Boehm, Roland Rivard, Walter Murray, Joanne Thomas and Marilyn Peckett. Marion is also survived and mourned by her wonderful friends, Anne Unger, Roberta (Bobbi) Appler, Daphne Curll, John and Joyce McCartney, Pat Putniak, Bonnie McIntosh, Juleen Ward. Marion was predeceased by her husband Richard Brian Woollard (1994) her father Edwin Bennett (1954) and her mother Marie Florence Hopcraft Bennett (2001) her mother-in-law Evelyn Louise Palmer Woollard (1956) her father-in-law Robert Benjamin Woollard (1971) her brothers, Louis Bennett (1936) and Joseph Thomas Bennett (2001) her brothers-in-law, Jerry Arnaud (1965), Adrian Langevin (1971), Jack Davis (1983), Walter Chisz (1985), John Slym (1994?), Lloyd Woollard (1995), Russell Woollard (1998) her sisters-in-law, Jacqueline Woollard Langevin (1988), Helen Woollard Arnaud Chisz (1989) Doris Davis (1999), Patricia Jean Slym (2001) her mother-in-law Mrytle Woollard (1992). A visitation will be held on Sunday, June 9 from 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Chapel Lawn Funeral Home, 4000 Portage Ave. Funeral services will be held on Monday, June 10 at 12:30 p.m. at Chapel Lawn Funeral Home. Interment will take place in Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens with a reception to follow. Arrangements in care of: CHAPEL LAWN FUNERAL HOME CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM 885-9715 \r

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jun 08, 2002