Emgard Mccourt

Peacefully at home on January 8, 2015 at the age of 97. Emgard was born in 1917 at Pembroke to Martha and Charles Grife. She had four brothers and a sister. She attended a local
one-room school house and later the local High School. In the mid-thirties she came to Ottawa to seek employment in the Civil Service. In 1942 she met Oriole
McCourt and they were married the following year. In 1992, after many years of declining health, her husband, Oriole McCourt died. Emgard is survived by her son Keith
and grandchildren Stuart McCourt, Natalie and Tristan Pulham as well as her brother Leonard of Horne Payne, ON and sister-in-law Eva Grife of Deep River,
ON. She was predeceased by brothers Melville, Clarence, Earl and in infancy Percy and sister Marion. A Private Graveside Service will be held