After a year long struggle, on Dec.15, 2021 Maggie left us to join previously deceased family and friends.
Margarete (Maggie) Lotterer was born in Lauda, Germany on May 13, 1941 and later immigrated when 12 years old with her parents, Ludwig and Margareta Lotterer, to Canada residing in Sudbury. She remembered clearly as a teenager in this new country learning the English language by going to movies, later, by watching TV and devouring any book she could get, building up her English vocabulary to ensure she ‘fit in’ with other Sudbury teens.
Maggie enjoyed 50 years of living on Tilton Lake at the south end of Sudbury, particularly swimming at every opportunity. We would have to chip away shore ice in late fall and early spring just to allow her a quick swim, always without any steam bath while we huddled in parkas, and after each ‘dip’ coming out pinkish red and with a smile from ear to ear. She said it reminded her of the cold mountain water of the Tauber River where she played so many times as a young girl. In the evenings she enjoyed sitting in the shoreline sunroom watching the sunsets, listening to Julio Iglesias cd’s.
Maggie excelled in the kitchen. Weaned in Germany by her Oma, then enhanced by life long good friends from her later teen years in Copper Cliff, she consistently produced many fantastic 7 and 8 course meals for 5 to 25 family and friends. She lamented not being able to make pies and cakes from store bought containers to save her time but we all looked forward to her hand made recipes that created simply mouth-watering pastries and pies. And her table settings were always magazine material with matching plates and glassware for each and every special season festivity – decorated ‘to the nines’ older generations would say.
As we built our house, Maggie directed wall and window placements (we sometimes had to move interior walls a few inches several times!). But it was Maggie alone who made the house a home, and every person visiting us was in awe of her tastes and display of simple and precious items and artifacts.
Holidays were important decorating times, including Easter and Halloween, but at Christmas Maggie had the whole house decorated from the 10’ Christmas tree, stair garlands, little Christmas treasures on all surfaces right down to festive tissues – she matched and may have exceeded what the old Eaton’s and Sears stores in Toronto laid out in earlier years. And we loved it!
Up to recently, after all the day chores were done, Maggie still sat up in bed until 2 or 3 in the morning reading paperback novels, yet starting each day fresh by rising at 5:30am, running up and down our rural road until 6:30am, showering and off to work again at Cambrian College – always with that great smile.
The immediate family has held a private funeral and cremation, and request that for those who wish, donations be made to the St. Joseph’s Continuing Care Centre on South Bay Road, Sudbury. That administration, the door security folk, the day and night shift staff, the cleaning crews – all made a point of providing exceptional care including speaking to Maggie using her name (no honey, deary, sweetie etc.) with normal conversations – that went a long way in minimizing the increasing pain she was experiencing. Those are amazing people giving such special help and care.
We loved her and will miss her so greatly – survived by her husband Rod Fabbro, daughter Jody-Anne, son Robert (wife Deborah) with their children Zander and Addisyn. Arrangements entrusted to the Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home.
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Wednesday December 15th 2021
Nos plus sincères sympathies à la famille et aux amis de Margarete Fabbro Lotterer Wednesday December 15th 2021..
Décès pour la Ville:Sudbury, Province: Ontario