Marjorie Marie Gibbons (nee Tobin) Of Corner Brook, NL born of St. Mary’s, St. Mary’s Bay On Friday, November 16, 2012, after a courageous battle with cancer, Marjorie Marie Gibbons passed away while her husband Seumas gently and lovingly held her hand while her devoted family comforted her by her side. Her daughter Denise, her son Sean, her sister Annie, her brothers Cyril and Kenneth, and her sisters by marriage, Sandra and Audrey, and fraternal sister Margaret Renouf, remained with Marjorie as she fought to hold on to her life until God was ready to call. Throughout it all, she was put at ease by some of her dearest of family friends and by a wonderful group of people at Western Memorial Hospital and the Western Region Cancer Clinic to whom the family will be forever grateful. The strength that Marjorie showed in her final days offered a true testament to her entire life’s journey. Her last days were a profound expression of her love of life, of family and an amazing and an enduring sense of dignity and self-will. This is what will mark her passing. No amount of cancer could ever define or defeat her. When it was time, God took her hand in His and her soul went willingly to a place without pain. Just as it was throughout the entire vigil during her last days, Marge was blessed with incredible friends her entire life. She came to Corner Brook in 1964 from her childhood home of St. Mary’s to join with her soon-to-be husband Seumas and embark on new careers at the TB Sanatorium later known as Western Memorial. While Seumas was heading the hospital’s pharmacy services, Marge spent most of her 30 years working in the physiotherapy department with a wonderful group of co-workers who remained among her best of friends even well after her retirement. Marge was known for her personal, skilled and the attentive care given to her patients and was renowned for the fun-loving and lighthearted spirit that she injected into the professional atmosphere of a serious place. Her contributions were significant and were appreciated. As a wife and mother, Marge was resolved that a house must first be a home. She was a commander of the necessities; providing delicious home cooked meals, meticulous surroundings and well pressed shirts. But she was so much more. She shifted easily from strict disciplinarian to nurturer of cut elbows and even sore heads; sometimes with the just right amount of indignation attached. No visitor to her home left feeling hungry or unwelcomed. Although she never mastered a musical instrument, music was in her soul and Marge would occasionally sit at the piano and play some of her favorite songs by ear. Music and laughter were always inside her even in heavier days. It just took family to let them all pour out again. Marjorie was a living beacon of her Catholic faith and lived her life by acts of kindness and love. Now in sadness but in the faith of one day reuniting in an eternal life to come, Marjorie leaves, as she herself voiced in her own last words, ‘her fabulous and devoted husband Seumas, her wonderful children, her daughter Denise (with husband Gerry Byrne), her son Sean (with wife Nancy), and her most precious treasures, her grandchildren, Gerry and Tia Shaye’. Her beloved siblings, her sister Ann White of St. John’s, her brother Kenneth (with Sandra) of St. John’s and her brother Cyril (with Audrey) of Fredericton, will keep faith to her memory. Marge is also dearly loved and remembered by her brothers and sisters by marriage Don Gibbons (with wife Jean), John Gibbons (with wife Bernadette) of St. Mary’s, St. Mary’s Bay, and Alice Gibbons of St. John’s. Marge will be forever cherished by her many nieces and nephews including Josephine Squires and Mark Tobin. One of her last breaths was to say thanks to her wonderful friends. Now in the company of the Saints, Marjorie is predeceased by her parents Angela and James Tobin, her brothers Bill, Adrian, James, Peter and Leonard, her brothers by marriage Ed White and George Gibbons, and by her sisters through marriage Theresa, Joan, Betty, and Joan Tobin. For those who wish to remember Marjorie, donations to the Western Memorial Regional Hospital Foundation or to the Holy Redeemer Parish will be graciously accepted. Visitation will take place on Sunday, November 18, from 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. The Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, November 19, 2012 at 10:30am at the Cathedral of the Most Holy redeemer and Immaculate Conception on Mount Bernard Avenue in Corner Brook. Funeral Services entrusted to Fillatre’s Funeral Home, 4 St. Mark’s Avenue.