Gertrude May “Gertie” MacDonald (Lasalle)

Published April 9, 2019

Gertrude May “Gertie” MacDonald (Lasalle)

At Lakeridge Health-Oshawa Hospital on Saturday, April 6, 2019. Gertrude “Gertie” May MacDonald (née Lasalle) of Oshawa ; age 80 years. Beloved wife of 60 years to Hughie “Dougie” MacDonald. Loving mother of Ewen MacDonald (Audrey) of Kirkhill, grandmother of Brandon (Melissa), John and Hugh, great-grandmother of Paige, Finnan and Tiernan. Loving mother of Glenda Brooks (late John) of Oshawa, grandmother of MacKenzie and Sean (Charlotte) and great-grandmother of Nolan, Tessa and Hannah. Beloved daughter of the late Albert Louis Lasalle and the late Janet Erma MacKenzie. Dear sister of Billie Nixon (late Everett), Catherine Millgate (late Glen), Bobbie Barton (Bruce) June Nixon (Royce), and Ian Lasalle. Predeceased by 9 siblings; Russell Lasalle, Donalda Cutting (late Ed), Mary Helmer (late Lyall), Gordon Lasalle (Anne), Mildred Manning (late Bill), Hugh Lasalle (Maxine), Carrie Estabrooks (late Mack), Anna MacCrimmon (late Duncan) and Arden Lasalle (Marilyn). Relatives and friends may call at the Munro & Morris Funeral Homes Ltd., 14 Main St. South, Alexandria (613-525-2772) from 9 to 11:45 am Saturday, April 20, 2019. A Memorial Service will be held in the Chapel of the Funeral Home on Saturday April 20, 2019 at 12 pm. Interment of cremated remains in Kenyon Presbyterian Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, Memorial Donations to the Toronto Sick Kids Hospital would be appreciated by the family. Due to allergies the family requests that there be no lilies sent. As a Memorial to Gertie a tree will be planted in a memory woods. A tree grows-memories live.  Online messages of condolence may be made in the obituary section of: www.munromorris.com