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1935-2022
Yolande Landry left us in the early morning of July 21, 2022, after a long illness, to the everlasting grief of her beloved wife, Phyllis Knight. She was the eldest of the seven children born to the late Patricia Power and Jules Landry and sister to Doreen and Louise, also deceased. Her other sisters and brothers, Simone, Mireille, Pierre and Georges, as well as her wife, Phyllis, were very close to Yolande through the last stages of her life. She will forever be in their hearts and souls.
Since her early childhood, Yolande’s life choices have been outstanding, her fearlessness in action remarkable and her spirituality constantly renewing itself. After her undergraduate studies at the Collège du Bon-Pasteur in Chicoutimi and the Collège Jésus-Marie de Sillery, she left her Saguenay home and joined the Medical Mission Sisters in Philadelphia. She spent the following 15 years of her life in this community, living the seven last years of her missionary work in Bangladesh.
On her return to Québec, she took her law degree at McGill University in Montreal. She then moved to New Mexico, where she met Phyllis Knight, soon to become her life companion and some years later her wife. Together they lived in many places in the United States and Québec, including many years in Phyllis’s hometown in Charlottesville, Va. In 2017, they settled in Rivière-du-Loup, where Yolande died at the Résidence Les Doux Souvenirs. Yolande will be long remembered, for she was loved and appreciated wherever she lived, and developed lasting friendships.
Our heartfelt thanks go to all the employees of Les Doux Souvenirs for their kindness, empathy and unrelenting attention to taking care of Yolande’s every need, to her last breath.
An intimate ceremony will be held in Yolande’s memory within a few weeks.
