MADELEINE LEVASSEUR

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MADELEINE LEVASSEUR Peacefully in her sleep, in hospital, in Ottawa, Friday, July 15, 2005. Madeleine Pachet, beloved wife of Omer LeVasseur for 58 and one-half years; loving mother of Leslie Robertson, Louise LeVasseur (Claude Panneton) and Lewis LeVasseur (Tara Alexander); lovingly remembered by her grandchildren, Keean, Jason (Angie McDonnell), Byron, Mason, Alexander and Emma; and by her great-grandchildren, Benjamyn and Kassia; dear sister of Jeanne Jobin, Marie Binne and Nini Dondo; also survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Maddie had a remarkable teaching career spanning more than 40 years. She taught in rural Manitoba, northern Manitoba, many schools in the city of Ottawa, owned and operated her own kindergarten in the province of New Brunswick, and her particular love was the Inuit children of the Northwest Territories. She also had an enjoyable, adventurous and memorable life with Omer in the Navy, where they developed an untold number of friendships. A mass in memory of Maddie will take place Tuesday, July 19 in Holy Cross Church, Ottawa, at 12:15 p.m. Interment Canadian National Military Cemetery, Ottawa. In memoriam donations to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario appreciated.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jul 16, 2005