Elsa-May was a warm welcoming person who valued everyone she met as someone dear. She was predeceased by her loving parents Magne, an author and Elsa Stortroen, a painter & her 2 sisters, Irma & Helga. She received a bachelor of arts from Carleton after being head of residences at the university of Ottawa. Her and her husband Michel Rene de Cotret met at the university and at her bequest, completed a cross-Canada tour before they married. Their life together was filled with writing and painting, whether it be thank you notes, sketches and portraits of the landscape, or poetry and stories about it.
They proceeded to have 2 lovely children, Jonathan and Andreanna, who they raised with a life full of adventures and misadventures. Over the course of her life Em taught music, kindergarten, ESL, among other subjects. She instilled a love of all those things on both her children and her students, especially Rupert, Elsa, Madeleine & Gillian. Her daughter Andreanna would go on to raise 2 wonderful children, with her husband Christopher Reid, who were the light of her later years.
Friends and family may gather from 10:00 am to 11:00 am on Monday, May 13, 2024 at McEvoy-Shields Funeral Home, 1411 Hunt Club Road, Ottawa, ON. A funeral service for Elsa-May will follow in the chapel at 11:00 am. Reception to follow.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Perley Health, St Joe's Supper Table, Parkinson's Canada, Oxfam, or a charity of your choice.
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