Glace Bay, NS
July 9, 2024
Curry, Charmayne Marie, age 86, of Glace Bay passed away on July 9, 2024, in Glace Bay Hospital.
Born in Glace Bay, she was a daughter of the late Charles Leo and Mary Elizabeth (McLaughlin) Curry.
Charmayne was a schoolteacher, teaching business-related courses, including Business English, Bookkeeping, and typing (she could type 120 words per minute!). She enjoyed golf, her weekly bridge club, and traveling down south with her teaching colleagues. She had been an active member of the teachers association.
Charmayne conducted herself in life with grace, kindness, and good humour. She was a pillar of the Curry family, maintaining the traditional family home with an open-door policy for all of her family, whom she loved hosting. She took special interest in her nieces, nephews, and their families, always keeping up on their news and achievements and always cheering them on.
She is survived by her sisters, Eileen, Glace Bay; and Rosemary (Nick) Czifrik, Salem, N.H.; brothers, Arthur (Anne), Antigonish; Joe (late Sandra), New Waterford; and Ernie (Elizabeth), Antigonish; sister-in-law, Joanne Curry, Antigonish; brothers-in-law, Ed (Ginger) Murphy, Sydney; and Kevin Peach, Glace Bay; and many nieces and nephews who all adored her.
She was predeceased her sisters, Sr. Marilyn Curry, CSM, Teresa Murphy, and Florence Peach; brothers, Dr. Bill (Cathy), Francis Gerard (Cecilia), Michael (Jean), Frank, Chuck, and John in infancy; nephew, Bill Curry; and niece, Janice Peach.
Visitation will be held Sunday from 7 to 9pm in St. Anne’s Church, 695 Main Street, Glace Bay, from where funeral Mass will be held on Monday at 10:00am, with Fr. MacLeen Anyenwu Ejiogu presiding. Burial in the parish cemetery.
In Memoriam, donations to St. Anne’s Roof Replacement Campaign appreciated.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of C.L. Curry Funeral Home, Antigonish.
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