JOHNS
NELLIE DOWNES
(nee: Coughlin)
Peacefully in hospital at Almonte on Friday, September 9, 2016.
Nell Johns (nee: Coughlin)
of Almonte in her 84th year.
Nell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and immigrated to Montreal in 1954. She will be sadly missed, but fondly remembered, as a loving mother to Paul, Carol-Ann (Goffin) and (the late) Donald, sister to Peggy (Ivy), longtime friend and companion to Ray Illingworth, and a very proud grandmother to her two grandsons, Daniel and Patrick. After she retired from the Ottawa Civic Hospital, Nell loved to golf and was a member of the Mountain Creek and Madawaska golf clubs, and enjoyed golfing during her years as a snowbird in Fort Myers, Florida. She was always ready with a big smile and sometimes a gentle but firm reminder, sometimes with a bit of Irish tone, that none of her children were too big for a “cuff on the ear” if so needed. Most of all, Nell will be long remembered as a gentle soul who loved her family, cherished her friends, and let her children grow and mature all with a mother’s eye and patience.
Friends may call at the
C. R. GAMBLE FUNERAL HOME & CHAPEL Inc.
127 Church Street, Almonte, Ontario. (613)256-3313
for visiting on Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 2 to 4 & 6 to 8 PM and where a complete service celebrating Nell’s life including committal will be held in the Chapel on Thursday at 11 AM. Private family interment, Capital Memorial Gardens, Ottawa.
For those who may choose to honour Nell with a memorial gift, please consider the Almonte General Hospital.
Condolences & Tributes: www.crgamble.com
