on July 25th leaving us with a gaping hole in our hearts forever.|
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Our beautiful and beloved wife, mother, daughter and sister died suddenly in Foothills Hospital
on July 25th leaving us with a gaping hole in our hearts forever.
Janice will be lovingly remembered and profoundly missed by her husband Stephen, son Justin, Mother Florence Renaud, sisters Carole Brost, Cathie Hansen (Wilf), Michelle Hofoss (Dan) and brother Eugene Renaud as well as the rest of her family and friends.
Janice was loving and caring, generous and full of tremendous life. She was an amazing elementary school teacher who instilled a love of music in her students teaching instruments and choir and preparing concerts and celebrations as well as teaching the regular curriculum. She played the piano and the organ and sang in the Calgary Austrian Choir Heimatecho.
She graced her home with lovely piano music, something treasured by her husband Stephen and son Justin and which they will sadly never hear again.
Janice was a talented watercolour artist and an intuitive writer and poet. She had a keen eye for nature, especially enjoying bird watching. She cared for the robins which nested under her back deck, not even allowing Stephen to put the new barbeque on it while they were nesting.
Seventeen years ago, Janice gave her love to a self-described "sad and lonely lawyer" and married Stephen. She assisted him when he ran for office as a Liberal and was horrified when either a sign was not placed perpendicular to the ground or someone vandalized one of them. As the long-suffering wife of a lawyer who dabbled in criminal law, Janice ensured that every day at the office and in court, Stephen was properly attired with matching socks and polished shoes.
Janice was a devoted mother to her son Justin who will forever miss her companionship, guidance and love. The two of them were an inseparable team. She was with him every day providing support and advice.
In the last few years Stephen and Janice enjoyed Caribbean cruises and would have been cruising again this spring if Covid had not interfered robbing her and Stephen of those adventures.
Janice tested negative for Covid but tragically the shut down of essential services like routine medicals and blood tests may have resulted in the loss of someone who made our world a brighter and more beautiful place.
Prayers will be celebrated Monday August 3rd at 4 pm followed by the Funeral Mass on Tuesday August 4th at 11:00 am, both at St Luke Catholic Church, 1566 Northmount Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2L 0G6. Prayers and Mass will be Covid compliant. Burial will follow at the St. Joseph Section of Queen's Park Cemetery.
Condolences, memories and photos may be shared and viewed at www.mcinnisandholloway.com.
by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high unsurpassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
We rise again from ashes, from the good we’ve failed to do.
We rise again from ashes, redeemed, O Lord, by you.
Our penance, Lord, our sorrow, our grieving hearts renew,
An offering of ashes, an offering to you.
We offer you our failures, we offer you attempts,
The gifts not fully given, the dreams not fully dreamt.
Our stumblings, give direction, our visions wider view,
An offering of ashes, an offering to you.
Then raise us up from ashes, your healing ease our pain.
Though spring has turned to winter, and sunshine turned to rain,
Your rain will nurture growing and create our world anew
An offering of ashes, an offering to you.
Give thanks to God the Father, who gave us life and breath.
Give thanks to Christ the Saviour, who saved us by his death,
Who, with the Holy Spirit, creates the world anew
From an offering of ashes, an offering to you.
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