Mary Ann Kunz

Born December 11, 1943, the youngest child of Hilary and Violet Kunz, she is survived by her husband Giorgio Bresba, her children, Marina, Paola, Alessandro, and Elisa, her sister Evelyn Gaffney (Timothy), her sisters-in-law Margo Kunz, Maria Santini, and Rosie Bresba, many nieces and nephews, and her dear friends. She is predeceased by her brothers and sisters Katherine Moore (Wray), Elizabeth Kunz, Hilary Kunz (May), George Kunz, and Patricia Kunz.

Born and raised in the tiny farming community of Sherman, Washington, Mary Ann earned her degree in nursing at Seattle University. With a desire to live a life of service and having a taste for adventure, she volunteered with the Peace Corps, doing humanitarian work abroad. She was sent to Kandahar, Afghanistan where she taught nursing. While in Kandahar, she met a handsome Italian engine mechanic named Giorgio. They married, moved to Montreal, and started a family. She continued her nursing career - first in home health care with the Victoria Order of Nurses and then at the Montreal General Hospital – all while raising her children and volunteering with a variety of local charities. This is how she lived out her Catholic faith which she nourished at her home parish of Saint Gabriel’s in St. Hubert.

Mary Ann was a voracious reader with a taste for all things historical, an artist who worked in fabrics, a gardener with a love of flowers, and a humanitarian who sought to bring justice to the world. She will be sorely missed, for she was a loving and generous person who improved the lives of everyone she encountered.

Closed casket visitation will be on April 5, from 10:00 am to noonat Saint Gabriel’s (5070 Rue Gilbert, St.Hubert). The funeral mass will follow at 12:30 pm.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her name to Our Harbour (ourharbour.org) or HOPE (wearehope.ca).