Constance Jean Moffat

Mom was an energetic woman who enjoyed spending time with family, friends and our many pets. She will be missed by her three children, JoAnne Nelson (Dave), Kevin (Shauna) and Doug Jr. (Ashley) as well as her three grandchildren, Steven Nelson (Katie), Beverley Munroe (Taylor) and Maslen Lunney, great grandson Henry Munroe and many nieces and nephews. Mom was predeceased by brothers Doug, Bob and Drew; and sisters Shelagh, Kathryn, Olivia, Frances and Alison.

Mom grew up in a large, lively household on Leighton Avenue in East Kildonan as the second-youngest of nine children of Jessie and Archie Moffat. Jessie and Archie came to Canada from Scotland in 1910 and mom was very proud of her Scottish heritage. Her dad served in both world wars and her brother Doug, a pilot, was killed in the Second World War in 1944. If times got tough in our lives we would think of how mom and her many siblings found the strength to endure what they did growing up.

Mom enjoyed playing basketball with the champion East Kildonan Collegiate EKays and graduated from Children’s Hospital School of Nursing in 1955. She worked as a nurse in Winnipeg, Selkirk and Victoria, B.C.

She married Doug Lunney Sr., in 1956 and they raised our family in East Kildonan. Our home on Oakview Avenue hosted street hockey games in the winter and touch football all summer. Our family moved to Cooks Creek in 1977, where we had JoAnne’s horses and a hobby farm of 20 acres.

Mom had a great sense of humour, made a fine chili, enjoyed music, travelling and was an enthusiastic curler, golfer and violinist. Mom frequently visited her sister Alison McKenzie and her husband, Mac, in Victoria, B.C., and enjoyed the mild winters so much that she left her job as a psych nurse at Selkirk Mental Health Centre in the late 1980s to take a similar post in Victoria. She moved back to Winnipeg from Sidney, B.C., in 2019 to be with her family and we were so thrilled to have her back.

We will miss her so much, but are thankful for the many years we had with her.

Special thanks to the staff at Devonshire House and Concordia Place Personal Care Home, who did all they could to make mom’s final days and years as comfortable as possible.