SOUER ANTOINETTE NORMANDEAU

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SOUER ANTOINETTE NORMANDEAU Souer Antoinette Normandeau est retournee a la Maison du Pere le 18 janvier 2000 a lage de 92 ans. Elle est nee le 12 juin 1907 a Giroux, Manitoba de lunion de Napoleon Normandeau et Emilia Delorme. Antoinette est entree au novitiat des Souers Grises a Saint-Boniface le 5 aout 1928, et elle prononce ses voeux temporaires le 15 fevrier 1931. Trois ans plus tard elle sengage par des voeux perpetuels a la Maison mere a Montreal. Des sa profession, soeur Normandeau entreprend sa carriere denseignante, carriere quelle a aimee et ou elle a connu le succes pendant quarante ans. Elle enseigne a Saint-Norbert, Saint Francois-Xavier, Sainte-Anne, La Broquerie et Woodridge, tous au Manitoba, ainsi que Lebret, Saskatchewan, et Fort Frances, Ontario. En 1972, soeur Antoinette exerce son ministere aupres des malades et des personne agees au Foyer Saint Boniface et au Centre Tache. Les caracteristiques saillantes de soeur Normandeau etaient sa grande simplicite, son amour vrai des pauvres et des eleves qui eprouvent des difficultes dapprentissage et son grand respect pour les autrues et surtout des personnes en autorite. Sa patience ne connaissait pas de limite. Et elle se distingue comme femme de priere et de fidelite a ses engagements religieux. Quelques annees avant son depart elle ecrivait: "Dans cette carriere que fut ma mission, jy ai trouve Paix, Joie et bonheur, au service du Seigneur et des autres. Que Dieu soit loue et remercie." Soeur Antoinette est allee rejoindre ses parents, deux freres Arsene et Gerard, deux souers Rosa et Elizabeth, deux belles-soeurs Albertine et Solange. Elle laisse dans le deuil un frere, Hector, de nombreux neveux, nieces, cousins et cousines. Une celebration de la Parole aura lieu a 19h30 le 20 janvier, a la Maison provinciale des Soeurs Grises au 151, rue Despins. La messe de la resurrection sera celebree a 10h00 au meme endroit le 21 janvier, par labbe Leo Couture. La direction des funerailles de soeur Antoinette Normandeau a ete confiee au Salon Funeraire Desjardins. SISTER ANTOINETTE NORMANDEAU After a lengthy illness on January 18, 2000, Sister Antoinette Normandeau, at the age of 92, returned to the Father at the Grey Nuns Provincial House. Antoinette was born in Giroux, MB to Napoleon Normandeau and Emilia Delorme on June 12, 1907. She entered the Grey Nuns novitiate at the Provincial House in St. Boniface on August 5, 1928. She made her temporary commitment on February 15, 1931. Three years later, she consecrated herself totally to God by pronouncing her perpetual vows at the Mother House in Montreal. Immediately following her profession, Sister Normandeau was assigned to teaching, a career she enjoyed and at which she was very successful for forty years. She taught in St. Norbert, St. Francois-Xavier, Ste-Anne, La Broquerie and Woodridge, all in Manitoba, and in Lebret, Saskatchewan and Fort Frances, Ontario. After 1972, Sister could be seen visiting and attending to the sick and the elderly at Foyer St. Boniface and Tache Centre. Sisters simplicity, her love of the poor and students with learning disabilities, her respect for others and especially her superiors were her outstanding characteristics. Her patience had no limits. She was and remained a woman of prayer and fidelity to her lifes commitment. A few years before her passing she wrote: "In my teaching career, which was my mission, I found Peace, Joy and Happiness at the service of God and others. May the Lord be blessed and thanked". Sister Antoinette was predeceased by her parents, two brothers, Arsene and Gerard; two sisters, Rosa and Elizabeth; two sisters-in-law, Albertine and Solange. She leaves to mourn one brother, Hector and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. A liturgy of the Word will be held on January 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Grey Nuns Provincial House, 151 Despins St. The funeral mass will be celebrated by Father Leo Couture at the same place on January 21 at 10:00 a.m. Desjardins Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jan 19, 2000