Mary Macdonell

Passed away on September 14, 2013. Born in Ottawa on June 5, 1931. Predeceased by parents Kitty and Jack MacDonell and siblings June Ross and Jack and Bud MacDonell. Loving widow of Captain Andy Dupont OFD. Also predeceased by infant daughter Tracy Ann, in 1961 and daughter Colleen, in 2010. Mother of Michael Hannas, Alyson Hannas, Tony Hannas (Susan Muir) and Paul Hannas (Kathleen Hamilton). Grandmother to Dylan, Ella, Piper, Georgi and Tabitha. Will be remembered for her friendship by niece Katherine Pauch. Graduated from Notre Dame Convent, Ottawa, and Hotel Dieu Hospital School of Nursing, Kingston, Ontario. Served as Nursing Sister RCAF during the early years of the Cold War in Canada and France, then as a civilian nurse at NDMC Ottawa. Continued to nurse, until retirement, in 1996 in the Ottawa Hospitals, mostly at CHEO. Sincere thanks to the doctors and nurses at Elisabeth Bruyere for their excellent care. Friends may call at the Garden Chapel of Tubman Funeral Homes, 3440 Richmond Road (between Bayshore and Baseline Road) on Friday, September 20, 2013 from 1-5 p.m. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Isidore Roman Catholic Church, 1135 March Road on Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 11a.m. Please, no flowers. If you wish please give donations to the Ottawa Humane Society, The Shepherds of Good Hope or World Vision.