IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS WE ANNOUNCE THE PEACEFUL PASSING OF LAUREEN CIOTTI (MERRICK). LAUREEN WAS THE LOVING WIFE OF THE LATE BOB CIOTTI JR. 2019 CHERISHED MOTHER OF ROBERT (KRISTINE) LORI (RICK) BAETZ DAN (JUDY) JOHN (LATE JEAN) PATTI (STEVE) HAY.
WONDERFUL GRANDMOTHER OF AMANDA ARSENAULT, JODIE MOON, SARAH (ALLAN) HAMILTON, ANDREA (BRANDON) ACKLES, JAMIE (SARA) CIOTTI, MICHAEL (TANYA) CIOTTI, CHRIS CIOTTI, ZACHARY RIDDELL, JENNA CIOTTI, JONNY RIDDELL AND ANTHONY CIOTTI. GREAT GRANDMOTHER OF BRANDON CIOTTI FALLA, TJ(ALYSSA) ARSENAULT, ADEN MOON, PAIGE MOON, ISABELLA HAMILTON, ISLA HAMILTON, WESTON ACKLES, NORACIOTTI AND LILLIANA CIOTTI
AUNT TO MANY NEPHEWS AND NEICES.
LAUREEN WAS BORN ON MANITOULIN ISLAND OCTOBER 2, 1937, TO FRANK MERRICK AND HAZEL MCCOLEMAN. LAUREEN WAS PREDECEASED BY HER SIBLINGS PAT BURNS (BOB) BILL MERRICK (ALICE), CARLYLE MERRICK, SHIRLEY STARLING (BOB) AND CAROL MATTHEWS (AL)
LAUREEN AND BOB WERE MARRIED IN SAULT STE MARIE WHERE THEY RAISED THEIR 5 CHILDREN UNTIL 1975 WHEN THEY RELOCATED TO RENTON ONARIO AND OWNED AND OPERATED THE 18-WHEELER TRUCKSTOP & RESTAURANT. LAUREEN ALSO VOLUNTEERED COUNTLESS HOURS TO THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY.
LAUREEN WAS AN AVID HOCKEY MOM & TORONTO MAPLE LEAF FAN WITH A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOUR, QUICK WIT AND NEVER HESITATED TO HELP THOSE IN NEED.
A PRIVATE FAMILY GATHERING WILL TAKE PLACE AT A LATER DATE.
DONATIONS CAN BE MADE TO THE ST JOSEPH’S HOSPICE IN LONDON, ONTARIO.