Dulcie Marina Broderick

To view the online service for the late Dulcie Broderick on Tuesday, December 29 at 2:30PM from the Carnell Memorial Chapel, please follow link below:

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Passed away at her home on Gilbert Street, where she most loved to be, Dulcie Marina Broderick (nee Parsons of Bryant’s Cove), aged 85 years. Predeceased by her husband, Bernard Francis (1979), and daughter Marina Loretta Sullivan (2019); her parents: Frank and Dulcie; sisters: Vina, Olive, Gwendolyn, Shirley and Ella; brothers: Herbert (Christina), Ewart, Douglas, Frank, and Allen “Frank”, and special friend, Henry Williams.

Leaving to mourn are her children; two daughters and one son: Bernadette (Martin Tessier), Vina (John McClintock) and Bernard; two sisters: Betty (Ray) Baggs and Vina (Bruce) Rees, one sister-in-law Jessie (Frank). One son-in-law, Jeffrey A. Sullivan. Eight grandchildren: Olivia (Keven) and Daniel (Camille) Tessier; Victoria (Tyler) McClintock; Justin (Megan), Jeffrey (Matthew) and Marcus Sullivan; and Javelin (Sarah) and Gage Broderick. Also, many nieces and nephews, friends, neighbours, and acquaintances.

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Our mother had a kind and loving heart and was an example of independence and self-reliance. She passed on these admirable qualities to her four loving children who have always tried to do her proud. We are thankful for her leadership in our lives and in our careers. Her strength made us all into the people, and the parents, that we are today. She was comfortable and happy in her home, which she loved, until the end.

She attended to her affairs with a diligence that would rival someone 50 years her junior.  We never knew anyone who could count up a list of numbers as fast as our mom. She loved flowers and her garden. Most of all she loved to laugh and have a dance!

Our mother walked almost every day, and she met many friends and strangers alike along her path. She always had a smile and a joke for everyone. Her pleasant demeanor brightened many people’s lives. We are sure that many will recognize her photo as the lady who walked everywhere, but she loved walking. It gave her the opportunity to meet so many people who really needed her unfailing optimism.

She was a woman of faith. She believed in her God and that He would take care of her and welcome her home one day. Her favorite hymn was one of the simplest, “Jesus loves me, this I know. For the Bible tells me so.  Little ones to Him belong. They are weak, but He is strong.” She sang it to us when we were children, and she sang it to us when later, we were older.

Dear Mother, we will think of you and miss you every day of our lives. We will meet again one day. Now, you go and join dad, and our sister, Marina. They are waiting for you!

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Due to COVID-19 there will be no visitation.  Funeral service will be held at Carnell’s Funeral Home in their Chapel, located at 329 Freshwater Road, on Tuesday, December 29 at 2:30 p.m. with interment to follow in the Anglican Cemetery, 98 Kenmount Road.  Attendance is by invitation only.  A celebration of Marina’s life will be held at a later date.  Memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.

All Is Well

Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped into the next room
I am I, and you are you
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,

Speak to me in the easy way which you always used
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was,
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.
All is well.