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Joyce Otway
October 8, 1923 - November 21, 2012
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<div itemprop="description"> <p> Joyce (Pugh) Otway, aged 89, passed away peacefully at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre on Wednesday, November 21, 2012. </p> <p> Joyce was born in Treherne, Manitoba. She was the eldest of nine children born to Ray and Laura Gibson (with the exception of twin half-brothers from Roy&rsquo;s previous marriage). </p> <p> Educated in Treherne, she was a graduate in the first class of L.P.N.&rsquo;s in Manitoba. She worked in various places in Manitoba until she married Roger Pugh in 1949. </p> <p> In 1957 they moved with their young family to Fort William. The next year she started employment at McKellar General Hospital from which she retired in 1986. Roger passed away in 1968. In 1970, she married Harold Otway in First Church United where she had been an active member. She also volunteered at the Red Cross. </p> <p> Joyce is survived by her son Greg Pugh (Doris), step-son Paul Otway (Lori) from Vancouver, son-in-law Jack Wiebe (Judy) from Calgary, grandchildren Amanda, Michael, Troy, Doren, Matthew &amp; Jeffrey, sisters Betty Calverley, Jean Papegnies and brother Cedric Gibson (Ina) from Manitoba, brother Cecil Gibson (Diane) in Kamloops, BC, as well as many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her parents, both husbands, daughter Gail Wiebe, both half-brothers Lou &amp; Frank Gibson, as well as her brothers Bill, Victor, Bert and Walter. </p> <p> In lieu of flowers, donations to the Canadian Hemochromatosis Society and the Pulmonary Hypertension Programme at the Toronto General Hospital would be greatly appreciated. </p> </div>