HICKEY, Dorothy (nee RYAN) - September 17, 1926 - December 31, 2017
Dorothy passed away peacefully after a full life raising nine children, doting on twenty-one grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
We are blessed to have enjoyed this past Christmas together with much love and laughter.
She was born and raised in Little Paradise, Newfoundland. She moved to Toronto and enjoyed 55 years of marriage with her late husband Bernard. She was a kind sister to Mary Ward, Martin Ryan (Cecelia), Kay Houlihan (Jim) and Blanche Dray (Joe).
Dorothy was a loving mother to Bernita (Peter), Myra (Jeff), Mary (Cam), John (Leslie), Bruce (Jeeling), Liz (Jay), Paul (Eileen), Joanna (Graham) and Monica (Joe). Doting grandma to Bernie, IIeana, Matthew, David, Sean, Amy, Patrick, Liam, Michael, Ginelle (Mike), Nathaniel, Samuel, Dillon, Willy, Melanie, Shaelyn, Jonathan, Chloe and Ryan. Cuddly great-grandma to Darius and Creedence. She was predeceased by her parents Jack and Elizabeth Ryan, her siblings Anthony, Greg, Peter and baby sister Marie, in-laws Jack Ward, Gladys Ryan and Elizabeth Ryan, grandchildren Edan and Jordan and Ginelle's mother Lillian. We wish her love and peace as she is reunited with Bernard.
Friends will be received at the Ward Funeral Home, 2035 Weston Road, Weston on Tuesday, January 9, 2018 from 1-3 and 7-9 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, 117 Guestville Ave., Toronto on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. Interment to follow.
As expressions of sympathy, donations to the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation would be appreciated.