JEANETTE KATHERINE EMILY ("MA") LINDOKKEN

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JEANETTE KATHERINE EMILY ("MA") LINDOKKEN Surrounded by the love of her family, Jeanette ("Ma") Lindokken died peacefully and suddenly in her new residence at Beacon Hill Lodge, Winnipeg, MB on Tuesday, April 1, 2003, in her 93rd year. Jeanette was born August 9, 1910 on her familys 1876 homestead at McTavish, MB. She attended Wellington School in Winnipeg, high school in Petersfield, MB and became a nurse at the onset of the Great Depression. Her early career was spent nursing in Winnipeg and at a tuberculosis sanitorium in Saskatchewan. In 1932, she moved to Deer Lake, ON where she nursed for nearly 50 years. Jeanette married Oskar Lindokken in 1933 and together they operated a trading post, Oskars Hinterland Camp, and commercial flying and fishing enterprises. The nursing station at Deer Lake was named in Jeanettes honour, and she received a medal of long service from the Government of Ontario. She moved to Red Lake, ON in 1981 and, after 71 years in Northwestern Ontario, returned to her prairie roots in February 2003. Jeanette is survived by her grandson Eric Lindokken (Dana Lewis) of Winnipeg; granddaughters, Sonja (Michael Keller) of Vernon, BC and Susan Gill of Winnipeg; daughter-in-law Caroline Gill of Winnipeg; six great-grandchildren, Marie, Kristine and Michael Keller of Vernon, BC and Esther, Olivia and Claire Lindokken of Winnipeg. Jeanette also leaves to remember her friendship and spirit, nephew Jack McTavish of Calgary and cousin Dorland McTavish of Ottawa; and many close friends to whom she was beloved as "Ma", among them Rhoda, Paul, Mark, Marcia and Michelle Frey. Jeanette was predeceased by her only son James (Jim) in August 1964; Oskar, her husband of 47 years in January 1981; her parents, James Thomas McTavish in 1945 and Sarah Annie Westgate in 1947; as well as by all of her siblings, Robert, Helen, Ethel and Violet. The family extends heartfelt appreciation to the staffs of Beacon Hill Lodge and geriatric medicine at St. Boniface General Hospital. The funeral for Jeanette Lindokken will be held at the Red Lake Mennonite Church, Red Lake, ON on Saturday, April 5 at 2:00 p.m. Interment will follow in the family plot at Red Lake Cemetery. It was "Mas" expressed wish that, should friends so desire, donations may be made to the Red Lake Mennonite Church through the Stevens Funeral Homes "Red Lake Chapel" - Box 237, Red Lake, ON P0V 2M0.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Apr 05, 2003