On March 30, 2019, in Ottawa, at the Perley Rideau Veterans' Health Centre. Edith M. Goodspeed, R.N. (Lieut. N/S Royal Canadian Army Medical Corp, WWII), in her 100th year, wife of the late Colonel (Retired) Donald J. Goodspeed (Professor Emeritus - Brock University); mother of Maureen Goodspeed and her husband Ulrich Werneburg, Ottawa, Peter Goodspeed and his wife Frances Kelly, Oakville, and Michael Goodspeed and his wife Shannon, Toronto; grandmother of Kathleen (Benjamin Cantin-Kranz) and Julia Werneburg (Charles Collins), Donald and Clare Goodspeed and Simon (Janet Harrison), Samantha (Milan Lazic) and Andrew Goodspeed (Pamela Goodspeed); great-grandmother of Euan Goodspeed, Jovan and Mina Lazic; sister of the late Arthur Ferrall. She was a member of the C.W.L of St. Vincent de Paul Church (Niagara-on-the-Lake), the Niagara-on-the-Lake Historical Society, The Niagara-on-the-Lake Hospital Auxiliary and the Graduate Nurses of Niagara-on-the-Lake. A funeral mass will be held at 2pm on Friday, April 5 at the The Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre, Lupton Hall. Burial will take place at 2 pm on Saturday, April 13 in St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery, Niagara-on-the Lake. As an expression of sympathy, those who wish may make a memorial donation to the Perley Rideau Foundation.
