2017
Jean Marie Valentino
In addition to being a wonderful
wife to Ferdinand, mother to Lisa Vigneault (Paul), mother in law to
Dawn Nita and doting grandmother to Nicole Vigneault, Jean Marie led
an interesting life. She was born in Fredericton, NB in 1929
to the late Frederick and Catherine (MacDonald) Carney. When
she was 7 the great flood washed away part of the railway bridge and
her father, who worked for the CNR, was transferred to Edmundston, so
off they went.
As a teenager she
was very involved in the church and spent a great deal of time at the
Cathedral helping Monseigneur in the office. Scouting
brought her great joy in her early 20’s, she was Assistant
District Commissioner (Cubs) in Edmundston, had her Gilwell and was
part of the Provincial Training Team. We heard many funny
stories about the antics that took place in the radio station CJEM
Edmundston during the two years that she worked there. One
of her proudest accomplishments was teaching in a one room school
house and years later receiving a letter from one of her students
saying that she had inspired her so much that she was the first person
in her community to attend university. Jean Marie taught
Physical Education in Edmundston Public Schools and NB
Teacher’s College in addition to adjudicating folk dancing
in NB and NS.
Jean Marie then got married to
Ferdinand and moved to Minto, but that didn’t slow her down
much. She raised three children while running errands for
the pharmacy, serving on the CWL, the School Board, the NB Legal Aid
Committee and sitting on the Hospital Auxiliary Board of which she was
a past president. She was also a member of the National
Advisory Council for Physical Education and Recreation where she got
to play soccer in broad daylight in the middle of the night in
Tuktoyaktuk and have dinner with Pierrre Elliot Trudeau. She
had a great love of Barbados her “Island in the
Sun”. By her actions she taught us to stand up for
what we believe is right. She will be greatly missed by us.
Jean Marie is predeceased by sons Gino and Giuliano
Valentino; brother, John Carney; and sisters, Helen Carney and Estelle
Fitzpatrick.
Resting at Oromocto Funeral
Home on Wednesday evening from 6-8 PM. Funeral Mass will be celebrated
11 AM Thursday, November 9, 2017 from St. Vincent de Paul Roman
Catholic Church, Oromocto, NB. Interment will take place in Holy
Rosary Catholic Cemetery, Minto. For those who wish, donations made to
the Alzheimer Society would be appreciated by the family.
www.hoggfunerals.ca

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Death notice for the town of: Fredericton, Province: Nouveau-Brunswick

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