COCHRANE, IRENE FLORENCE (HOLT)

IRENE FLORENCE (HOLT) COCHRANE, IN HER 69TH YEAR, AT ST. MARY'S OF THE LAKE HOSPITAL ON JANUARY 23RD, 2007, WITH HER FAMILY BY HER SIDE.FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS, IRENE HAS BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS AS SHE BRAVELY LIVED BEYOND MANY COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH HER TREATMENT FOR CANCER. SHE REMAINED POSITIVE AND UPBEAT RIGHT TO THE END, NEVER MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SOMEONE SMILE WITH A JOKE, KIND WORD OR GESTURE. PREDECEASED BY HUSBAND GEORGE E COCKRANE (2005), AND PARENTS RONALD AND LAURETTE HOLT OF AYLMER, QC., SHE LEAVES BEHIND DAUGHTER CATHY (PETER) WILSON, GRANDSON DANIEL (MORGAN)WILSON, SISTERS BARBARA (FERN) HUOT OF KEMPTVILLE, ON., PATRICIA (DICK) LUSIGNAN OF AYLMER, QC., BERNICE (DENIS) TRUDEL AND BROTHER ROBERT (SUE) HOLT, BOTH OF ST. EUGENE ON.,SISTER-IN-LAW JUNE MCFARLANE OF OTTAWA AND SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS. IRENE SPENT THE LAST YEARS OF HER CAREER AS AN OPTICIAN WORKING AT COSTCO'S OPTICLUB IN KINGSTON WHERE SHE ALWAYS HAD A SMILE AND A CHEERFUL WORD FOR EVERYONE. AN AVID BINGO PLAYER, IRENE WAS A PROMOTER OF THE " BINGO HAND " AS A VOICE SAVING DEVICE NECESSITATED BY HER MANY WINS. SHOPPING TRIPS TO WATERTOWN WERE OFTEN PUNCTUATED WITH A PAUSE AT THE CASINO ON THE WAY HOME .IN ACCORDANCE WITH HER WISHES , HER REMAINS HAVE BEEN CREMATED . MEMORIAL FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT 3.00PM., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2,2007 AT CHRIST CHURCH CATARAQUI CHAPEL, SYDENHAM ROAD, FOLLOWED BY A PRIVATE FAMILY INTERMENT OF THE CREMATED REMAINS. IN IRENE'S MEMORY, THE FAMILY IS REQUESTING DONATIONS TO THE CANCER CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN ONTARIO AT KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL, 25 KING STREET WEST, KINGSTON ON. K7L5P9