Pauline slipped away from us, quietly in the end, after a difficult and painful year. In her 94 years she saw hard times and good times. Throughout them all, her strength and infectious good humour touched us all. Raised with her brother Paul (deceased) in St. Henri during the Great Depression by her parents Émile and Delvina, she knew poverty and learned a resourceful self-reliance that served her well throughout her life. She met the love of her life, Maurice Maréchal, and they married in 1948. A short 12 years later in 1960, she was widowed at the age of 36. Picking up the pieces of her lif...
