Obituary of Margaret Aileen Baldasaro R.N. O.B.E.

BALDASARO, Margaret Aileen R.N. O.B.E. 1923 – 2008 Peacefully on December 24, 2008, at the Hamilton General Hospital in her 86th year. Daughter of the late Frank and Alice Pope, predeceased by her first husband, Bill Purvey of Bermuda, her late husband Wallace J. Baldasaro, her sister Claire and husband Dominic Baldasaro of North Bay. Survived by her sons Francis Purvey of Florida and Michael Baldasaro of Hamilton, her daughter Jean Gerken and husband Henry of Florida and her sister Mary and husband Jake Anton of Kitchener. She will be greatly missed by her grandchildren Aaron and his wife Maria of Abbotsford B.C., Ashleigh Purvey of Florida, Henry, Bill, and John Gerken of New York, great-grandchildren Maxwell, Sidney, Billy, Peter and Christian all of New York. She is also mourned by her late husband Wallace Baldasaro’s family, Anne Hicks, Helen Cosway (Bill), Marie Labreche and her late husband Jack, Eugene and Joyce Baldasaro and numerous nieces, nephews and many loving cousins and, especially by Agnes and Tommasso Serrani. Aileen graduated from nursing at St. Mary’s Hospital in Kitchener in 1945 and later served in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Bermuda where she continued her very successful nursing career. In 1976 Aileen was made an Officer of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in recognition of her work at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. In the same year she received the Benemerenti Award from Pope John Paul for her work within St. Michael’s Church in Hamilton, Bermuda. Friends will be received at the Donald V. Brown Funeral Home 36 Lake Ave Dr., Stoney Creek, on Monday December 29, 2008 from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Vigil prayers Monday evening at 8:30 p.m. The Funeral Mass will be held at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. Cremation to follow. Online condolences may be made at www.donaldvbrown.ca