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Barbara «Lorraine» Faherty Obituary
(Barbara) Lorraine Faherty was born July 20, 1941, the eldest child of Walter and Hope Nicholson. The family grew up in the Aldergrove area. Lorraine’s love for music and theater developed early in her high school days at Little Flower Academy, the Vancouver Amateur Theater group and the Polish Church Choir. Her experiences during this time led her to baptism in the Catholic Faith in 1955. Lorraine met the love of her life, Stephen, at a Catholic Youth Organization dance right before High School Graduation. Refusing to be a ‘teenage statistic” she went off to study business in Nelson BC at Selkirk College, returning to Vancouver to work at her mother’s accounting firm before marrying Stephen as soon as she was twenty (and no longer a teenager) on August 19, 1961. Stephen and Lorraine welcomed five children over the next nine years. While raising a young family, Lorraine worked at Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG) and the lighting manufacturer Russell Industries, while also attending UBC night classes to become a Certified General Accountant (CGA).
In 1975, Lorraine’s mother convinced the family to move north to Fort Nelson BC as she wanted to retire. North they went. Nicholson Accounting became Faherty & Co. Lorraine spent many years travelling every three months seeing clients between Fort Nelson and Watson Lake. Her mother Hope’s advice to her was to always travel dressed like a lady, as few men would ever drive past a woman in a skirt and high heels trying to change a tire or do vehicle repairs. Lorraine was always actively involved in community and the church: the annual Trapper’s Rendezvous; the Hospital Auxiliary; Hospice; TOPS; the church music ministry; and her passion – the Catholic Women’s League – of which she became a lifetime member in 2004. Lorraine semi-retired in 1984 when Maeve Anne needed support. She and Steve provided a stable home to grand-children Winter and Robert for the next ten years until they reunited with Maeve Anne in Calgary. Lorraine enjoyed the company of people, telling stories, and sharing laughs. People always knew where they stood with Lorraine and where she stood on any subject – she loved a good debate.
Stephen and Lorraine retired to Chase, BC in 2003, where they quickly got involved in the church and enjoying the beauty of the Shuswap. Along with Father George, Lorraine was instrumental in re-establishing the CWL Council at Blessed Sacrament Church. On September 4, 2024 Lorraine passed away quickly and peacefully surrounded by family and the amazing care team of the Good Samaritan Society’s Hillside Village where she had resided since November 2019 with dementia.
Lorraine was predeceased by her parents Walter and Hope, her brother Nick (Walter Jr), and her daughter Maeve Anne. She leaves to mourn Stephen her devoted husband of sixty-three years; her sister Andrea; her children Bridget, Patrick, Linnea, Sean (Jacky); grand-children Winter (Gary), Robert (Amanda), Kiera (Adlin), Amanda, Hope (Thomas), Arielle (Lorne) and Stephen James; great grand children Patricia, Brianne, Brooklynn, McKayla, Trevor, Marissa Lorraine, Asher and Evelyn; great great grandson Joseph; and extended family in Canada, Ireland, England and Wales.
Services will be held at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Blind Bay, BC. Monday September 9, 2024 7pm Prayer Service, Funeral Mass 11am Tuesday September 10, 2024. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to any Hospice, Chalice Canada, or the charity of your choice.
The family would like to thank Dr Darren Lorenz, Dr Thomson, all the staff at Hillside Village and Father Fred Weisbeck.
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