Helen Patricia Meikle

It is with great sadness that the children and sisters of Pat Meikle announce her death, on March 10th, 2008 in Toronto after a year-long illness. Pat was born in Montreal on February 14th, 1924 and grew up in Westmount, Québec. She graduated from Saint Paul's Academy in 1941, and from the Mother House Secretarial College in 1942. Following graduation, she took a position as legal secretary at the Montreal firm of Montgomery McMichael (now Ogilvy Renault), where she worked until her marriage to the late James Edward Meikle on September 18th, 1952. Pat pursued her chosen career as wife, mother and grandmother, with kindness, common sense, humour and great deal of devotion, for 56 years. She was much loved, and will be greatly missed, by her sisters Barbara Mulcair and Sister Anne-Marie Mulcair, CND; her children Victoria, Susan and Ross Coyles, Jamie, Heather and Adrian Johnson, Thomas and Melanie Rockliff, Gregory and Rachel Jewell; and her grandchildren Jamie, Gillian, Kieran, Devon, Natasha, Dunham and Jackson; and by her friends. Friends may call on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 from 5-8 p.m. at the R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge Street, at Goulding, south of Steeles). A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.at Blessed Trinity Roman Catholic Church (3220 Bayview Avenue). A reception will follow at the home of Heather Meikle and Adrian Johnson. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society.