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DARVEAU, PERE ADRIEN, O.M.I. A lHopital Laval, est decede le 27 avril 2003, a lage de 87 ans, le pere Adrien Darveau, Oblat de Marie Immaculee. Il entra au noviciat en 1937 et prononca ses vux perpetuels en 1941. Il a ete ordonne pretre le 19 juin 1943. Apres son ordination, il a principalement uvre a Brochet, au Manitoba, pendant 50 ans. Il prit sa retraite en 1996 a Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec. En 2002, il recut la medaille du lieutenant gouverneur du Manitoba en reconnaissance de ses uvres aupres des communautes autochtones du nord de la Province. Le pere Darveau etait le fils de feu Laurent Darveau et de feue Odelie Rochon. Il laisse dans le deuil, outre ses confreres Oblats, ses freres et ses surs : Bernard Darveau (Bertille Delisle), Cecile Darveau (feu Lucien Pare), Annette Darveau (feu Leo Frenette), feu Joachim Darveau (Augustine Trudel), feu Napoleon Darveau (Cecile Perron), feue Therese Darveau (Marcel Montambault) ainsi que plusieurs cousins, cousines, neveux, nieces, bienfaiteurs, bienfaitrices. Des services religieux seront celebres premierement au Quebec, et apres au Lac Brochet, MB le vendredi 2 mai et a Brochet, MB le samedi 3 mai, 2003. Linhumation aura lieu au cimetiere de Brochet, MB. DARVEAU, FATHER ADRIEN, OMI Peacefully, on April 27, 2003 at the Laval Hospital, Father Adrien Darveau, OMI passed away at the age of 87. He entered the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1937 and was ordained to the priesthood on June 19, 1943. He served in Brochet, MB for the next 50 years. In 1996, he retired, moving to Cap-de-la-Madeleine in the province of Quebec. In June 2002, Father Darveau was presented the Manitobas Lieutenant-Governors medal for his contribution in northern Manitobas First Nations communities. Father Darveau was predeceased by his father Laurent and his mother Odelie (nee Rochon) brothers, Joachim and Napoleon and sister Therese. Besides his religious family, he leaves to mourn his brother and sisters, Bernard Darveau (Bertille Delisle), Cecile Darveau, Annette Darveau; sisters-in-law, Augustine Trudel, Cecile Perron; brother-in-law Marcel Montambault as well as numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and benefactors. Funeral services will be celebrated in Quebec, in Lac Brochet, MB on Friday, May 2 and in Brochet, MB on Saturday, May 3, with interment in the Brochet cemetery.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on May 02, 2003