Obituary of Irene Ethel Lamoureux

LAMOUREUX, Irene November 1, 1938-December 31, 2019 Peacefully, in the morning hours of December 31st, 2019, with two of her three children at her side, Irene Lamoureux’s life came to It’s end. She was 81. She is predeceased by Maurice, her loving husband of 53 years with whom she made a happy home on Tourangeau Road (Windsor) until Maurice’s passing. For the last five years, she has appreciated the care given and valued friendships made at Shoreview at Riverside. The family wish to thank the nurses and doctors at Metropolitan Hospital, 6th floor north. Irene is survived by her three children, of whom she was very proud; Donna, Brian and Joan. She often said that she was grateful for the good people each married; late Chris, Cathy and Grant. From these unions came six granddaughters; Jesse and Abby, Kellie and Paige as well as Leah and Chloe whom were precious to her. Born to Oscar and Lottie Matthe into a family of seven other children; late Elizabeth, late Lawrence, late Rita (Howard) Helen, Doris (Raymond), Terrance (Cathy) and late Frank (Cheryl). Irene enjoyed a very close relationship with her sister Helen. Together, they were “Thelma and Louise”. Her three kids remember especially bright and happy summers as free-range children with a mother who always said yes to their setting up a kool-aid stand or to any number of neighbourhood kids running with them through the lawn sprinkler. These were unstructured times where imagination was free to thrive and a healthy sense of mischief was expected. Irene fostered many wonderful memories and the foundation from which solid adults would grow. Irene’s home-made flash cards for teaching her kids multiplication would give way many years later to home-made bingo cards to play with her granddaughters around the kitchen table. She was a mother and grandmother who instinctively knew that the simplest of activities would create the best memories. Irene was a practical and sentimental woman with a strong sense of personal duty. She loved to laugh and did so often at the silliest of things. She was nonjudgmental, a little quirky and lived by the golden rule. She was far from standard issue. She had the extreme good fortune to understand herself; what she needed to be happy and to have attained it all through her marriage, children and family. More than once she said “I feel like a millionaire”. Funeral arrangements entrusted to WINDSOR CHAPEL (Central Chapel) 1700 Tecumseh Rd. E., 519-253-7234. A Private family Service will be held at a later date. Online condolences and cherished memoirs may be shared with the family at www.windsorchapel.com