Condolence: On behalf of my dad, Reg Michaud and myself we are sending our sympathies to Lorie, Pierrette, Marc, Roxanne and Chantal and their families. May you find strength through your memories and faith to get you through your loss.

Therese Bilsborough (Michaud)

Condolence: My grandma was my superhero throughout my life.

She was the first person who actually cared about me; she drove from Sudbury to Ottawa and back again in a single trip just to rescue me and sure enough, she was home in time to watch her recorded Young and the Restless; she always let me go through the lost & found box for clothes (at the school where she was a cleaner) to let me have the cool lost stuff, and never got too angry when I, SherryLynn and Marky were eating all of the raspberries off the bushes. My life was filled with happiness and joy because my Grandma showed me love and how to love.

I was always amazed by how she had so much love for everyone, and made time for all of us - she ensured we all had full bellies and clean clothes to start the day and yelling not to “drive her nuts” or telling Zander to “stop touching everything “. There was always so many boxes of awesome cereal!!

And the best part of the day was always around 11 am when I knew I could sneak in and cuddle with her - the toothless grins were always my favourite.

The fondest memories I have include her always seem to be in the kitchen: standing on the stool with her hoovering over me taking in clothes I bought too big, or sitting watching her cook & bake endlessly and then helping her with the dishes (amazed that the kitchen would be spotless after the fiasco) and us together alone sitting up late at night talking nonstop about everything me falling asleep curled up with her and Carol Burnett hearing grandma chuckle from time to time

Yvonne was the only person on the planet to understand me and pain I have experienced - she was the only person who stepped up the the plate to be accountable and was always able to make me feel special & loved - She was a woman of strong principal, faith and made her family a priority - attributes I hold near & dear to my heart

The last visit I had was last February 2020; early enough in the morning she was alert, able to recognize me instantly, she smiled, grabbed my hand & squeezed it - we spent the day colouring, playing with Dolly, talking about Elvis (and how handsome he was), eating, reading and I was finally able to give her the closure of the life long questions that haunted us both - the visit as always was wonderful and I parted knowing we were filled with love, happiness and sadness because there is just not enough time

I have never had a lot of close relationships with my family, but the relationship I had with my grandma was beyond precious special to me - I live my life knowing she would be proud of me.

I know she is in a better place cooking & laughing looking down on us with the grin that brought me so much joy, waiting for all us to get there so we have dinner together once again.

I love you grandma,