ROURKE M. Loretta Peacefully at the John Noble Home on Saturday, June 30, 2001, Loretta Rourke (nee Vasey) in he 86th year; beloved wife of the late Ronald Rourke (1996); cherished mother of Mary Louise and her husband John Coffey, Neil and his wife Diana (Wrobel), Anne and her husband Frank Kosnick and Lorna and her husband Fred Boer; loving grandmother of Peter and Marlene, Patrick and Ilda, Moira, David and Linda, Michael and Karin, Allison, Brendan, Adam, Joseph and Sam; great-grandmother of Dexter, Tyler and Cooper; also survived by her brother Leo Vasey. Friends will be received at the BECKETT - GLAVES FAMILY FUNERAL CENTRE, 88 Brant Avenue on Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Basil's Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday at 11 a. m. Interment Zion Cemetery, Hepworth on Thursday. Donations to the Alzheimer Society of Brant or the John Noble Home would be appreciated. A Tree will be planted forLoretta in the Beckett - Glaves Memorial Forest.

Taken from the July 3, 2001 edition of the Brantford Expositor