DOROTHY JEAN BIDEWELL
Dorothy Jean Bidewell died
peacefully in her 97th year early in the morning of March 26, 2014 at Grace
General Hospital.
Dorothy was born July 20, 1917 in
Dauphin MB, the second daughter of Llewellyn and Madeleine (Secord) Williamson.
She went to school in Lintlaw, SK and Dauphin and graduated as a registered
nurse from St. Anthony’s Hospital in The Pas. After graduation, she
worked in Manitoba for some time but soon left for Vernon BC, which she
considered “heaven on earth”, and a job at the Vernon General Hospital.
Dorothy loved nursing and often shared memories about the patients she cared
for and the doctors and nurses she worked with. She joined the Canadian
Army Medical Corps during the Second World War and served in Ontario. During this
time, she met a tall, dark, handsome pharmacist, who had just returned from an
overseas posting. She fell in love with Jack Bidewell and married him in
Toronto in 1948.
Jack and Dorothy moved to Iroquois
Falls ON, where daughters Frances and Laurie were born. Daughter Melanie, son
Graeme and daughter Pamela were born at the old Grace Hospital after the family
moved to Winnipeg.
Dorothy was predeceased by her
beloved Jack in 2006. Also by her parents, her sisters Laura Imrie and Helen
Inverarity and brothers Johnny and Archie. She is survived by her
children Frances, Laurie Holmes (Larry) of Hanna AB, Melanie, Graeme (Janice
Duynisveld) and Pamela (Rick Kolesar), five grandchildren Shannon McBride,
Michael Holmes, Alexander, Robyn and Reid Kolesar, four great-grandchildren,
her sister Florence Chute of Kelowna BC, sisters-in-law Audrey Bidewell of
Cambridge ON and Queenie Williamson of Flin Flon and many nieces and nephews.
Our mother deeply loved her family,
friends, home and community. She was deeply loved in return and will be sadly
missed by her family and friends. Special thanks for the enduring love and
support of her “Grace girls”, Gianna, Connie, Karen and Karen. Much gratitude
to the devoted doctors and staff of Grace Hospital wards 3N and 5, home care workers,
Dr. Andrew Jowett and his assistant Agnes and to all the others who supported
her in her long and happy life.
In accordance with Dorothy’s wishes,
no formal service will be held. A family gathering is planned in the
spring to honour her memory.
Instead of flowers, her family would
appreciate donations to the Grace Hospital Foundation, 300 Booth Drive,
Winnipeg R3J 3M7.
Richard Wojcik of Wojcik’s
Winnipeg Funeral Chapel & Crematorium, 2157 Portage Avenue, 204 – 897 –
4665, is in care of arrangements. wojciksfuneralchapel.com
“The day is done and the darkness falls...
And the night shall be filled with music.”
- Longfellow
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