Fighting brain cancer as a teenager or the multiple brain surgeries and cancer treatments so severe hair didn’t even grow back.
This should have been your greatest fight in life but that paled in comparison to your greatest accomplishments.
At 21 years old recovering from cancer, you should be starting your life as a young adult but instead you did the unthinkable. You took on five young children to hold the family together. You thrived on the role as parent, guardian and friend. You loved your boys fiercely and really showed them what pure love meant. You took wild kids (yes, we heard the stories to back that up boys) and raised them all to be amazing men. You did that…you did that as a young woman alone raising young boys still not fully healthy yourself. You gave them love, security and acceptance. Never anything less. You cheered them on, you provided, and you were their home, their safe spot. No matter what happened Cathy was there with a smile. A genuine happiness for any little thing. I have actually met very few people that were so genuinely happy for anyone's good fortune.
When the family started expanding and girlfriends and spouses started arriving there was always acceptance from you. Always welcoming us with open arms. I know now it’s because we provided her absolute treasure…the kids. The nieces and nephews. All of us, not just the boys but all of us owe Cathy for the family we have today. She held a family together; she shaped wild animals into a wonderful group of men who women actually wanted to marry. You taught them love, acceptance and your god damn stubborn Poirier no quit spirit.
Your job was done so very successfully that no one can understand how such a small little woman could push us all around to get whatever she wanted. Every visit with you involved belly laughs and love….and a little bit of telling us what to do…usually with a list!
Rest now Cathy. Your job is done, and you can be at peace with your greatest accomplishments at your side.
Cathy is survived by her mother Sylvia, her five greatest accomplishments, Steven (Mandy), Paddy (Lorraine), Charles (Dawn), Johnny (Candace) and Ryan, along with special brothers Joey (Neilena), Simon, Jimmy (Samantha), and only sister Georgina (Sven).
She will also be remembered by her the lights of her life, her grandchildren, nieces and nephews, Justine, Austin, Adam, James, Ethan, Isaac, Shawn, Ava, Lanie, Rory, Avery, Grace, Danielle and Mason.
She was predeceased by her father Simon.
Visitation will be at St. Matthew's United Church, Tuesday November 1, 2022 10am-11pm. Service to follow, officiated by Pierre Chiasson. Memorial donations in Cathys memory may be made to Inverary Manor, Inverness or to Central Inverness Palliative Care Society.
Online condolences may be made to www.invernessfuneralhome.com
