Passed away unexpectedly and peacefully on Feb 3, 2005 at the age of 81.
Beloved wife of Edgar Featherstone. Pre-deceased by her brother John, sister Sadie Lothian and dear Aunt Queenie, all of Scotland. Loving mother to sons John (Laura Jean) of Toronto and Paul (Kathey Anne) of Calgary. Devoted Grandmother to Devin Thomas, of Prince George and Marin Leah, of Calgary. Will be sadly missed by her sister Jean Hannay (Dan), niece Jane Brown (Edward), nephew John Hannay (Michelle) and families in England. Will be fondly remembered by her cousins Anne McNaughton and Hicks Goldie (Hugh) in Toronto, her many Featherstone nieces and nephews in Australia and New Zealand and all of her friends across Canada.
Born in Wishaw, Scotland, Mary trained as a nurse and midwife in Glasgow, eventually moving to Hull, England as a Queen’s Nurse. Coming to Canada to marry Edgar, she joined the Victorian Order of Nurses in Toronto. During her nursing career in Canada she tended to patients in Gimli, Manitoba, Alliston, Ontario and at Windsor’s Metropolitan Hospital.
Cremation has taken place and the ashes will be interred in Campbeltown, Kintyre, Scotland, where Mary spent summer holidays as a child.
Donations in lieu of flowers to the research fund of the ALS Society of (Windsor) Essex County, 1426 Front Road South, Amherstburg, Ontario N9V 2M6.
Friends are invited to join the family for a celebration of Mary’s life, which will take place at 12 noon, Wednesday February 9th, at the Scottish Club of Windsor, 1340 Tecumseh Road East, Windsor.