It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Mary Germaniuk (Mackay) on February 25, 2024. She passed peacefully in her sleep at Prince George Hospice after an eight month long battle with cancer.
Mary was born in Edmonton in 1947 where she grew up with her family of eleven in a small six hundred square foot house. They were short of money but long on love which gave her an amazing understanding and empathy for people of all walks of life which she demonstrated right up until her passing.
She married Ray in 1967 and they moved to Fort McMurray shortly after when the tar sands extraction had just got started. It was there that their daughter Stacy was born. Four years later they moved to Prince George.
Ray took a job at Intercon Pulp thinking that Prince George was on the ocean, not knowing there were two cities starting with “Prince” (days before Google) Didn’t get a road map until passing through Edmonton, Surprise, said we would stay a couple of years but still here and loving it.
Mary’s early passions were fastball, bingo, cooking, reading and teaching Stacy reading, writing and arithmetic before Kindergarten. She played ball for PG Pulp senior ladies and played bingo at the legion regularly until it moved to the casino. She was a natural athlete and was reasonably good with any unfamiliar sporting equipment you put in her hand. She became a Member of the Prince George Golf and Curling Club in the early eighties and became an avid golfer getting in as many as 100 rounds a year.
When Mary’s husband Ray and his brother Barry started Interior Offroad Equip in 1976 Mary was the breadwinner and support for all the trials and tribulations that an underfunded small business could throw at you, she was truly the good woman behind the man.
She was also one of the few spectators at the rink where Ray played gentleman’s hockey for a number of years before going to old-timers but we always suspected that the beer after was the actual draw
Mary is survived by her devoted husband of 58 years Ray, and daughter Stacy (Greg), Siblings The twins Richard and Alex and Brother Bernard
She is preceded in death by her parents Dick and Janet and Siblings Tommy (Darlene), Joey, Margaret, Grace, Billy (Karen)
A celebration of Mary’s life will be held this spring in Prince George. Details of the service will be announced at a later date.
A shout out to the Prince George Hospice whose attentiveness and caring helped immensely through this trying time, Thank You
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