It is with our deepest love and heavy heart we have lost our dear Mom, Grandmother, GG and GGG at the age of 103 years young.
She passed peacefully into the arms of our Lord at Pioneer Manor. She was a long time resident there and was looked after with great care and loved by her second family; the staff and co-residents in Pine Place.
Patricia is survived by her 5 daughters, Lorraine Holmes, Sharon Loweth, Freda Adams, Lynn Brunini, and Vicki SanCartier; her 13 grandchildren and their spouses Tommy Holmes, Kimberly Ann Santerre, David Holmes, Steven Loweth, Carol Simpanen, John SanCartier (pre-deceased), Michael Adams, Steven Adams, Nicole Adams, Chad McNeilly, Todd McNeilly, Jenny DuHaime and Brandy Duhaime; her 17 great-grandchildren and step grandchildren and their spouses Lorra Holmes, Sarah Brosseau Jobin, Samantha Amyotte, Emilie Santerre, Robert Stephenson, Erkki Simpanen, Sam Adams-Reid, Haley Taylor, Karlie Legendre (McNeilly), Cole McNeilly, Aiden McNeilly, Avalon DuHaime-Pyott and Sheamas DuHaime-Pyott, Yvon Lacelle Sauvé, Eric Lacelle Sauvé and Patrick Lacelle Sauvé and Loghan Duhaime; and her 4 great-great-grandchildren and step-grandchildren, Kysar Jobin, Gwendolyn Stephenson, Theodore Stephenson and Lucas Lacelle (Sauvé).
Daughter of John Lent Dickson and Florence Patricia (née Orr). She was the youngest of 7. She was predeceased by her siblings Florence Elaine James, James ‘Jim’, Stuart ‘Stu’, Robert ‘Bob’, Doug and Donald ‘Don’ and by her husband Albert Alfred ‘Fred’ SanCartier and her brother-in-law Leo SanCartier.
She volunteered for the Canadian Woman’s Army Corp in Sudbury, Ontario during World War II. She also worked at INCO lab during the same era where she survived an explosion that maimed her shoulder and caused her partial hearing loss. In 1948, she started at Eaton’s in the Accounts Department where she served the Company for 33 years until 1981 when she retired and began to travel to many distant places, her favourite being Ireland. She was a lifetime member of the St. Andrew’s United Church from the age of 8 after Sudbury’s Methodist and Presbyterian parishioners merged on June 10, 1927.
She was the last remaining grandchild of prominent Journalist, Publisher and Editor, also known as the ‘Father of Curling’, James ‘Jas/Jimmy’ Alexander Orr, Founder of the Sudbury Journal (March 5, 1891) now known as Journal Printing.
Pat loved playing cards, scrabble and cribbage with her friends and family and beat the pants off them. She taught her offspring how to count this way at a very early age. She liked ‘dat’. She was President of ‘Club 111’ at St. Andrew’s Residence where she lived for many years. A real ‘Social Butterfly’ and a sassy one at that.
Being a charitable and kind woman, her suggested contributions are the March of Dimes and the Canadian Cancer Society.
Resting at the Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home, 233 Larch St., Sudbury. (Friends may call after 3pm Thursday). Funeral Service in the R.J. Barnard Chapel on Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 7pm. Facemasks are mandatory. Cremation with entombment at the Civic Cemetery. For those who wish to view the service online: view.oneroomstreaming.com/authorise.php?k=1647375701172744
For donations or messages of condolence, www.lougheedfuneralhomes.com
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Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Patricia Grace Sancartier Dickson Sunday March 13th 2022..
Death notice for the town of: Sudbury, Province: Ontario