Pamela Ann Steacie, died September 18, 2024 in Ottawa.
Younger daughter of the late Clarence and Robina (Ruby) Putman. Beloved and loving wife for 73 years of the late John Richard Brian (Dick) Steacie, Died Aug 2,2023.
Loving Mother of Pamela (Gordon Bourgard), John (Debra Johnston) and Adam (Liz nee Rothgeb). Affectionate Grannie Annie of the Bourgard girls: Emma, Zoe (Ryan Withington) and Claire (Mark Ferguson); of Sarah Steacie and her twin brothers Benjamin and Ian, and of the late Aaron Steacie (died 2022) and his sister Carolyn Babij.
Delighted Great Grannie Annie of Emily Crotty, Cooper and Nathan Withington, Grace Ferguson, Lev Steacie and Charles and Nadine Babij.
Ann went to Rockcliffe Park Public School, Lisgar Collegiate, and the Royal Victoria Hospital Nurses Training School in Montreal, graduating as an R.N. in 1948. Then at age 21, she embarked on a world tour with 3 chums as passengers on a cargo ship from Vancouver to South Africa, through Suez Canal and across the Mediterranean to Britain where she worked as a nurse in London to pay her way home.
A true lady, Ann was witty and articulate, charming and hospitable, with a great sense of humour and a classic fashion sense. A voracious and eclectic reader she kept sharp with cryptic crosswords, cooking and sewing, all of which she exercised over many summers at the cottage at Grand Lake.