GRACE, ALMA MARY

IT IS WITH BROKEN HEARTS THAT WE ANNOUNCE THE PASSING OF ALMA GRACE, AFTER A LENGTHY BATTLE WITH DEMENTIA.

SHE IS PREDECEASED BY HER BELOVED HUSBAND DOUGLAS TO WHOM SHE WAS A LOVING WIFE FOR 72 YEARS UNTIL HIS PASSING IN 2021.

ALMA WAS ONE OF 10 CHILDREN BORN TO DAVID AND FLORIDA MONDOUX IN CORNWALL, ONTARIO.

SHE MET THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, DOUGLAS GRACE, AT THE FACTORY WHERE THEY BOTH WORKED. ONE LOOK AND BOTH KNEW THEY BELONGED TOGETHER. WEDDING BELLS RANG ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1949 IN CORNWALL.

THEY MOVED FROM CORNWALL TO ST CATHARINES, ONTARIO IN 1953 WITH THEIR 2 DAUGHTERS, DONNA AND SANDRA AND A FEW YEARS LATER HAD 2 BOYS, DANNY AND GARY. LATER IN LIFE THEY MOVED TO BRITISH COLUMBIA TO BE CLOSER TO FAMILY WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY MOVED TO B.C. THEY RESIDED IN MAPLE RIDGE.

IN 2018 MOM AND DAD MOVED TO AN INDEPENDENT LIVING FACILITY, WILLOW MANOR, WHERE THEY SHOWED OFF THEIR DANCING SKILLS AND THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER.

THEY RESIDED THERE UNTIL 2021. AS MOMS DEMENTIA PROGRESSED SHE WAS ADMITTED TO JACKMAN MANOR AND WAS THERE UNTIL HER PASSING.

MOM WILL ALWAYS BE MISSED AND FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS. SHE LEAVES BEHIND HER DAUGHTERS, DONNA ADAMS (MURRAY), SANDRA PHILLIPS, SONS DANNY GRACE (REBECCA) AND GARY GRACE.. SHE HAD SEVERAL GRAND CHILDREN, GREAT GRAND CHILDREN, AND GREAT-GREAT GRAND CHILDREN, FAMILY AND FRIENDS IN BOTH BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ONTARIO.

THANKS TO ALL THE NURSING STAFF AT JACKMAN MANOR FOR THE AMAZING COMPASSION AND CARE THEY GAVE TO MOM AND THE FAMILY.

AT HER REQUEST THERE WILL BE NO SERVICE.