Marion Mitchell, R.N.

With sadness in her passing, but gratitude for a long well lived life, we announce the death of Margaret "Marion" Mitchell R.N. of Charlottetown on August 14, 2018 at the Q.E.H. in her 94th year. A graduate of the Charlottetown Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1946, she specialized in Private Duty Nursing. Her gentle compassionate manner and superb nursing skills touched all of her patients. She was recently honoured as the longest-paying member of the Charlottetown Hospital Nurses Alumae. Matriarch of the Mitchell family and favourite aunt of ; Mary (Ted Robak), Frances (Wayne Lawrence), and John (Linda) O’Keefe; Gerald (Sheila), Morgan (Rose, dec.), Regan (Colette), David (Merilyn), Julia (Claude Parent), John (Claire Nantes) and Mary (Al Dowling) Mitchell; Tim (Joanne), Ann (Randy Burchat), and Stephen (Donna) McWade; Pat (Peggy), Fr. Brian, Owen (Mary Catherine) and Mark (Angie) Hennessey and all of their families. She is also survived by her sister-in-law Julia Mitchell; her Fitzgerald cousins; and numerous grand and great grand nieces and nephews. Predeceased by parents Charles and Loretta Mitchell; sisters and brothers-in-law Marjorie and Frank O’Keefe, Betty and Gordon McWade, Mary and Lou Hennessey; brother Gerald Mitchell; dear friend Dorothy McInnis; and nieces Mary and Eileen McWade. Resting at the Hennessey Cutcliffe Charlottetown Funeral Home for visitation on Thursday, August 16th from 5 to 8 p.m. The funeral will be held on Friday, August 17th with funeral mass from the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer at 2 p.m. Interment will follow in the Roman Catholic Cemetery. Members of the Charlottetown Hospital Nurses Alumnae will hold a prayer service at the funeral home on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the PEI Right to Life Association or the Heart and Stroke Foundation (PEI). On-line condolences may be made at www.islandowned.ca.