Pauline AYOTTE

Pauline Carmel Ayotte died suddenly as the result of a brain hemorrhage on September 15, 2007 at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. She was in her sixty-second year. Ms. Ayotte worked in the insurance brokerage business as a certified technical assistant by examination for several years, including 25 years with AON Inc. (formerly Reed Stenhouse of the USA and Canada) in Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary, retiring in 1994. Ms. Ayotte was a senior staffer and a brilliant performer in her career and was honoured as such on her retirement by the firm. She was an avid gardener, loved walking, camping and the outdoors, mastered and produced works of ceramic and paper tole as hobbies. Her family and many friends and co-workers will deeply miss and mourn her. She was known as a lovely, loving, thoughtful, kind, devoted, cheerful, happy person who was generous even in death by donating all her organs, some of which have already been transplanted. Ms. Ayotte is survived by devoted husband of 33 years, Victor Branch; sisters Georgette Binkley (Barry), Pierrette Ayotte (Kyle); brother Ron (Sylvie); sister-in-law Francoise Ayotte; several loving nieces and nephews and many close friends and neighbours; step-daughters Anne-Marie Branch, Fiona Wright (Norman) and Dawn Scott and grandchildren Gregory, Matthew and Sasha. She was predeceased by her parents Rosaire and Gabrielle Ayotte, brothers Marcel and Rene. The funeral service is at the Kaye Funeral Home in Peterborough on Thursday, September 20 at 2 p.m. Interment is at Little Lake Cemetery. Donations to World Vision, Heart and Stroke Foundation, or the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated by the family. Condolences and tributes may be sent to vbranch3@cogeco.ca The family sincerely thanked the many doctors, nurses, assistants and especially Suzanne Dove of the Trillium Gift of Life Network for the exemplary attention and service provided in the final hours of Ms. Ayotte’s life. They tried their very best but her condition was too devastating to save her.