SOEUR LUCETTE VEILLETTE

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SOEUR LUCETTE VEILLETTE Soeur Lucette Veillette est retournee a la Maison du Pere le 29 octobre 2000 a lage de 89 ans. Elle est nee le 4 mars 1911 a Saint Tite, Quebec de lunion de Georges Veillette et dAlice Charpentier. Entree au noviciat des Soeurs Grises a Montreal le 5 fevrier 1932, elle prononca ses voeux temporaires le 15 aout 1934. Trois ans plus tard elle sengagea par des voeux perpetuels a la Maison mere de Montreal. Son premier champ dapostolat fut a Longueuil, puis aux Orphelinats de Liesse et de Chambly-Bassin ou elle servit les pauvres et les enfants a titre dhospitaliere. Puis le Seigneur lui demanda de partager sa croix sur un lit de malade pendant plusieurs annees aux Sanatoriums de Sainte-Agathe, Quebec et de Saint-Vital, Manitoba. Par la suite elle accepta de changer de province pour servir a titre de sacristine durant de nombreuses annees a lHopital general Saint-Boniface, lHopital Saint-Joseph a Gravelbourg, a la Maison provinciale et a Sainte Rose-du-Lac. Sa carriere se termina par la visite des malades a lHopital general Saint-Boniface jusquen 1992, jour ou elle prit sa retraite avec les soeurs ainees a la Maison provinciale. Femme de priere, il lui etait donne de passer de longs moments avec son Dieu ou elle aimait Lui parler des pretres pour lesquels elle a beaucoup prie. Soeur Veillette est allee rejoindre ses parents, ses quatre freres, et sa soeur religieuse, Blandine. Elle laisse dans le deuil, outre sa famille religieuse, sa soeur Lucille et sa belle-soeur Germaine ainsi que des nieces et neveux. Une celebration de la Parole aura lieu a 19h30 le ler novembre 2000 a la Maison provinciale des Soeurs Grises. La messe de la resurrection sera celebree a 10h00 au meme endroit le 2 novembre 2000 par labbe Leo Couture. La direction des funerailles de soeur Lucette Veillette a ete confiee au Salon Funeraire Desjardins. SISTER LUCETTE VEILLETTE After a lengthy illness, on October 29, 2000, Sister Lucette Veillette, at the age of 89, returned to the Father at the Grey Nuns Provincial House. Lucette was born in St. Tite, Quebec to Georges Veillette and Alice Charpentier on March 4, 1911. She entered the Grey Nuns novitiate in Montreal on February 5, 1932, made her temporary commitment on August 15, 1934. Three years later, she consecrated herself totally to God by pronouncing her perpetual vows at the Mother House in Montreal. Her first assignment was in Longueuil, Quebec then in the Orphanages of Liesse and Chambly-Bassin, where she worked with the children and the poor as house mother. But this was short lived as she was called to share the Lords cross for many years in the Sanatorium at St. Agathe, Quebec and St. Vital, Manitoba. Following these years of solitude, she came to Manitoba where she served as sacristan for 33 years in St. Boniface General Hospital, St. Josephs Hospital in Gravelbourg, at the Provincial House and in Ste. Rose. From there she was assigned to visiting the sick for 20 years at St. Boniface Hospital, a work she enjoyed doing until 1992 when she retired at the Provincial House. Woman of prayer, she spent long moments with the Lord in the silence of the chapel and her room; she had a very special place in her heart for the priests for whom she prayed a lot. Sister Veillette was predeceased by her parents, her four brothers and her Sister Blandine, also a Grey Nun. She leaves to mourn, her religious family, her sister Lucille and sister-in-law Germaine, some nieces and nephews. A liturgy of the Word will be held on November 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Grey Nuns Provincial House. The funeral mass will be celebrated by Fr. Leo Couture at the same place on November 2 at 10:00 a.m. The Desjardins Funeral Chapel in care of arrangements, 233-4949.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Nov 01, 2000