Passed away peacefully at Algoma Residential Community Hospice on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. Beloved wife of the late Gerald (Munna) for 57 years. Cherished mother of Karen Noakes (Dan), Bill (Karen), Gerry Jr. (Angel) and Charlotte Gagnon (Sean). Loving and devoted Granny of Jarrett & Shelby Noakes (fiance Connor), Amy & Rachel Maniacco, Joshua & Ryan Maniacco, Jacqueline, Tanner & GeriAnn Gagnon and great Granny of Carter Roberts. Predeceased by her parents William and Bessie Lidkea. Dear sister of Roger Lidkea and sister-in-law of Rosalie Lapossie (late Robert), Sandy Pruce (Andy), the late Valerie Nardo (late Giovanni), the late Palmer "Sonny" Maniacco (late Denise and late Donna) and the late James Maniacco. Survived by many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Mom was an extremely devoted daughter, sister, wife, mother, mother-in-law, granny, great granny and friend. As a 1963 graduate from the St. Mary’s School of Nursing she thrived in her nursing career, maintaining connections with her fellow graduates and those she worked with and having an extremely tremendous impact on the patients she cared for. Her compassion and thoughtfulness knew no bounds.
Mom cared deeply for so many people and always had a wonderful way of showing each person she came into contact with how special they were to her. It is amazing to have experienced the abundance of love she had for so many. What a role model! We will always have fond memories of her special individual Christmas crafts, her special cards and notes to us and her gentle and comforting voice whenever we reached out.
Judi’s family would like to extend gratitude and extreme thanks to the staff at the Sault Area Hospital ICU and 3B and Arch Hospice for their care and compassion.
At mom’s request a celebration of life will be held when family and friends can gather together in a safe manner.
"I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times, and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun, with all of the happy memories that I leave when my life is done."
Memorial contributions payable by cheque or online to the Sault Area Hospital Foundation - Renal Care Fund or A.R.C.H. would be appreciated by the family. Arrangements entrusted to the Arthur Funeral Home - Barton & Kiteley Chapel (492 Wellington St. E. 705-759-2522).
"Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Pray, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was, let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, some-where very near, just round the corner. All is well."
Harry Scott Holland 1847-1918, Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral.