Irene Elizabeth Bellefleur passed away on Monday, January 20, 2020 at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance at the age of 88.<\/p>\n
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick on September 25, 1931, Irene was the dear daughter of the late George & Irene (nee Walsh) Quinlan.<\/p>\n
Dear wife of the late Ronald A. Bellefleur (1999).<\/p>\n
Beloved mother of Ron Bellefleur, and his wife Donna, Jim Bellefleur, and his wife Wanda, and the late Rob Bellefleur (2018), and survived by his wife, Cathy.<\/p>\n
Loving grandmother of Brent, Brittany (Nick), Ryan, Robert, Matthew and Luke.<\/p>\n
Survived by her sisters, Mary Doyle, Doreen Springstead (Roy) and Monica Daley.<\/p>\n
Predeceased by sisters; Joan Rocca (the late Pat), Marguerite Mcillwraith (the late John), Patricia Mio (the late Dennis), Maureen Quinlan, brothers; Andrew Quinlan, George Quinlan, and brother-in-laws; Frank Daley, and John Doyle.<\/p>\n
Sadly missed by many nieces, nephews and cousins.<\/p>\n
Irene was a devoted member of St. Agnes Catholic Parish and the Catholic Womans League. She was a member of the Legion of Mary under Father Morand for 5 years. Irene loved to travel, playing cards and hanging with friends (The Notorious Dalton Gang).<\/p>\n
Family to receive friends on Friday, January 31, 2020 at McKinlay Funeral Home, 459 St. Clair Street, Chatham from 3:00 – 5:00 pm & 7:00 – 9:00 pm. Vigil Prayers to be held at 7:00 pm. A Funeral Mass to take place at 10:00 am on Saturday, February 1, 2020 at St. Agnes Catholic Parish, 52 Croydon Street, Chatham. Burial to follow in Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham.<\/p>\n
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irene Elizabeth Bellefleur passed away on Monday, January 20, 2020 at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance at the age of 88.","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 19:22:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/obituaries\/2020\/01\/bellefleur-irene-aged-88-chatham\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12638,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12637\/revisions\/12638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}