Angeline Marie Ball

Angie Godbout was born in St Fabien de Panet Quebec, on February 10, 1931, to her parents Oliva Godbout and Anita Baillargeon.

Angie is predeceased by her husbands Jean Gignac and Norman Ball. Sadly along the way she buried three children: Ivan, Patricia and Richard. As well as grandchildren: Cindy and Sherry Grundstrom, Barry Heise JR and great-grandson Jordan Emanuel Grunstrom. Also waiting for her are her siblings: Herve, Armande, Gaeton, Donat, Rosario (Rosie), Marc, Remi Baillargeon and Jean Roch (John).

Angie is survived by her sister Florence Hurst of Virginia and her children: Pauline, Rachel, Mark and Anita, 14 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, in-laws and great friends.

Angie always aspired to care for seniors and others. In the early 1950’s, when she was a young wife and mother, her mother-in-law Josephine Moreau passed away. Angie and John moved into the paternal home to help Albert Gignac with his teenagers and to manage the home. Pepere Gignac would remain with Angie until he passed away on November 20, 1970. She also accompanied her siblings, a few sisters-in-law and Pepere Gignac through to the end of their lives.

In late 1963, Angie and John bought Lady Rose Marie Nursing Home, a ten bed established home, in Sault Ste Marie. They would later enlarge the home and incorporate under the name Northern Nursing Home Ltd, a fifty bed facility. Angie would build and open Van Daele Manor, a one hundred bed facility in 1974. She sold the home in 1978.

She was well known and respected in the business community in the Sault as she advocated for other women wanting to advance in business, mentoring them to break the glass ceiling.

After she retired and left Sault Ste Marie, she continued to work and volunteer with seniors by providing home care and support in Mount Forest, Elliot Lake and Cambridge.

She embraced yet another vocation that brought her years of pride and enjoyment. She sewed clothes, such as pajamas, coats and outfits, for the children at a local women’s shelter. More often than not, the moms and their children had to flee a volatile situation without their possessions. She accomplished this with the support of friends, at the Queenston condo building in Preston, where she lived for several years. They collected donations to purchase personal need items for the moms. She was featured in an article in the Cambridge Times, on April 26, 2013, titled “Grandma Angie Stitches for Kids”. She continued crafting clothing for the women’s shelter until she moved to Fairview Independent Living in June 2018.

Angie spent her last eight years at Hilltop Manor. She enjoyed her life there always doing rounds, keeping her eye on things, scouting around in her self-propelled wheelchair and undoubtedly managing her last nursing home. We regret not having installed a pedometer on her chair. She clocked many miles every day.

The family wants to thank the management, nurses, PSW’s, aids, physio, culinary and recreation staff as well as the hair stylist and volunteers at the Manor for cherishing mom as you did and for allowing her to be the administer of the second floor.

Funeral arrangements entrusted to Coutts Funeral Home and Cremation Centre. A service will be held in the spring, with details to be published at a later date.

As expressions of sympathy, donations made in Angie’s memory to Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region, directed to Haven House would be gratefully appreciated by the family.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared with the family through the funeral home at www.couttsfuneralhome.com