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Kathlyn Moonah
February 7, 1942 - May 12, 2016
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<div itemprop="description">Kathy was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. She attended Dawson elementary school, Patterson Junior High and graduated from The Pictou Academy. She then took commercial training and excelled in shorthand and typing. She attended Teachers College in Truro and was Valedictorian in her final year. Kathy taught in countryside one bedroom schools all over Pictou County. She came to Winnipeg, Manitoba on a 2yr contract in 1964. We met at our student house party in Wolseley in December. She had Laryngitis and was smelling of Vicks….my favorite medicated rub. We danced to Trini Lopez music. I was the DJ and sang the words to her: ”Don’t think twice it’s all right”. We didn’t talk much that first night, but then communicated a lot and we met again and again. On July 15, 1966 we married. <br> <br>As Jay writes: <br>Mom stayed home early in my life to look after me and my sister Becky. She filled our house in Scarborough with what seemed like a zillion examples of her knitting and rug hooking and sewing and crafting and other creative expressions. She sang and played the organ with an intuitive sense of harmony that I only hope to have inherited, and cooked every kind of cuisine you can imagine with amazing proficiency. She was a surrogate mother to the kids in the neighborhood, and could regularly beat most of us at video games like Tetris and puzzles like Rubik's Cube most of the time, to both our chagrin and awe. Always the teacher, she began private tutoring when Becky and I were a bit older. <br>Two decades ago when she was just in her 50s, she began showing symptoms of early onset Alzheimer's, which was later confirmed by a diagnosis that ordinarily ends in death after about 5 years. But my parents are not ordinary. My Mom's strength and my Dad's determination kept her not just alive, but active about 4 times longer than any medical professionals expected. Dementia started taking her away a long time ago, but I will always remember her as the smart, strong, funny, creative woman who taught me more than I can express. Kathy was a wonderful and a very talented lady. May she rest in peace. <br> <br></div>