Obituary of Jean Beatrice Haines

Haines Peacefully with family at Marian Villa, her home for the past six years. - Jean was predeceased by her brother Patrick, her sisters Margaret, Helen, Francis, and Antoinette. Jean is the beloved Aunt of Randa and Don (London) Mary and Bob, Richard and Loretta, Bob, Bill, Helen Claire, Patricia and Michael (Toronto Area). Jean will be remembered lovingly by many grand nieces and nephews and several great-grand nieces and nephews. Jean embraced life with optimism, humour, curiosity, hard work, and feistiness. She generously shared her time and herself. Jean was deeply committed to her family and friends and to her Catholic Faith. Her personal qualities, her faith, her lifelong connections with family and friends helped her live a full life in a silent world. Due to a childhood illness Jean was profoundly deaf since age seven years. With impaired eye sight in her senior years Jean welcomed help from the deaf/blind branch of the C.N.I.B. There will be a celebration of Jean's life at 12:00 noon on Friday March 7 in the Mount Hope Auditorium 21 Grosvenor St. There will be a Funeral Mass at 2:00 at St. George's Catholic Church 1164 Commissioners' Road West followed by internment at St. Peter's Cemetery. Friends and family are welcome to attend part or all of these rituals. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made to, Compassion Canada, 985 Adelaide Street South, or C.N.I.B., Deaf/Blind Services or St. Josephs' Health Care Foundation.