Blanche M. Andrews
1920-2020
On June 9, 2020, Blanche
Marie (McKenzie) Andrews passed away peacefully at the
Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre, Amherst, Nova Scotia, at the
age of 100 years.
Blanche was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia
on May 1, 2020, the eldest of ten children of Guy and Matilda
(Chiasson) McKenzie.
She attended Holy Angels High School.
She spoke fondly of her school friends as well as summer vacations
spent with her Chiasson cousins at the farm in St. Joseph du
Moine.
Blanche met her husband Frank
(“Andy”) Andrews while he was in Sydney doing
military training. Andy persisted in his courting until she eventually
agreed to marry him, a marriage that lasted 76 years until his passing
in 2017. Together they lived in a variety of places throughout
Andy’s military career – Westphal, NS, Barrie, ON,
Chibougamou, QC, and Stirling, ON – until retiring to
Florida, River Bourgeois, Halifax and finally Amherst. Blanche made
lifelong friends at every stop.
Blanche was a talented painter, an eager
hostess and an avid conversationalist. She could and would talk to
anyone about whatever their interests might be and was genuinely
interested in getting to know people. Most of all she loved
to shop, and to generously share her bargains with her family and
friends.
Blanche had five children –
Franklyn Lemoine (Napanee, ON), Robert (“Bobby”),
Wendy MacLeod (Barry) (Amherst, NS), Marsha (Vancouver, BC) and
Laurene (“Laurie”) (Halifax, NS). She also raised
her youngest siblings, Cora Bourgeois and Raymond McKenzie, for a time
after the death of their mother. She was a loving grandmother to Kelly
(Michael Wile), Deanne (Mark Forward) and Jason MacLeod, Rick (Carol)
Lemoine and Petrina Lemoine and Geoffrey and Rachel Andrews. She found
great joy in being a great-grandmother to eight
great-grandchildren.
Blanche was predeceased by her husband
Frank, her son Robert, brothers Guy, Gerald, George, Kenny, and Gordon
and sisters Eleanor MacKenzie, Shirley Grabka and Cora
Bourgeois.
The family would like to thank the staff
at Centennial Villa who treated Blanche like family, particularly
during the last few months in isolation, and the nursing staff of the
medical unit of Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre, who made her
last days peaceful and comfortable.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the
Jones Family Funeral Centre, 70 Church
St., Amherst, NS (902-667-8777) where cremation has taken
place. internment of ashes to be at Ste-Marie-Madeleine
Cemetery, Ste-Marthe-du-Cap, QC and St. Joseph du Moine Cemetery,
Cheticamp, NS. A celebration of life to follow when
permitted.
Should friends desire, memorial
contributions may be made to the charity of your
choice.
Sharing of memories and condolences may
be sent to the family by visiting Blanche’s online memorial at
www.jonesfamilyfuneralcentre.ca or through the Jones Family Funeral Centre
Facebook Page.
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Death notice for the town of: Amherst, Province: Nova Scotia