72 – Sydney Mines
As Mum would say “I was a very lucky little girl you know because I grew up in the red row in Sydney Mines.”
Faith, family, and roots were very important to our Mum. Growing up in our house meant going to church on Sunday, family drives, being taught to treat others with kindness and respect and realizing that our parents loved us first and foremost.
Your soul is created through the story of your lifetime. How do you put into words the story of your soul? We can tell you about a little girl who lost her daddy way too young, a young lady who had to quit school because her mother was a widow, to a mother of four children who pulled over to the side of the road one day, knocked on the door of a house on Brooklyn Avenue that was for sale and asked what it would take to make that house a home for her family. To a grandmother who had an undying love for her grandchildren and in the end, a great grandmother “Grammie Two” to a little boy named Emmett, who will get to hear about her through stories his mother and grandmother will tell.
She loved her job; she worked many years at St. Rita’s hospital in Sydney, with a group of women that all became kindred spirits for life.
Mum was able to become a part of anything and everything she loved, from choir at the church to creating a full social outing just getting her hair done every Saturday.
Her fun side from dancing polkas in the kitchen where she couldn’t boil water (thank God for dad), to Jim Reeves on a daily basis, and highlights such as “I love you dear, but my show is on, you have to be quiet now.” This is a very small piece of who our Mum was .
Linda is survived by her four children, Cecil Jr. (Louise), Cindy (Kevin), Margie (Bobby), and Hughena (Stan); her grandchildren Ashley M., Kevin (Laura), Ashley (Gloria), Alex (Jason), Taylor, Nick, Megan and great grandson Emmett Harold James. She is also survived by her brother Johnny, her sister Theresa, by many nieces and nephews whom she held close to her heart and her best friend, Cecil Boutilier.
She was predeceased by her parents Hugh and Margaret (MacDougall) Ronayne, brothers Kenny, Hugh and Alec, her 2 sisters-in-law and husband Donald MacLeod.
Visitation for Linda MacLeod will be on Thursday, August 6, 2015 from 2-4 & 7-9 pm at Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home, 10 Clyde Ave. Sydney Mines. Funeral mass will be celebrated on Friday at 10 am at Holy Family Church, Sydney Mines with Rev. Jim Oliver officiating with interment in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Shore Road.
Special thanks to the doctors and nurses of the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, especially the nurses in the ICU.
Donations can be made to any local animal shelters, as Mum loved her fur babies. Online condolences may be sent by visiting www.twcurry.com
Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on the snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
-Mary Elizabeth Frye
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