{"id":78137,"date":"2020-12-09T10:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=78137"},"modified":"2020-12-09T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:29:40","slug":"vandervoort-helen-age-85-chesley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/obituaries\/2020\/12\/vandervoort-helen-age-85-chesley\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandervoort, Helen (Age 85, Chesley)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78140 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.briwebapp.net\/2020\/12\/3c484b87-vandervoort-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Helen &#8220;Rita&#8221; Margaret (Cox) Vandervoort of Chesley, passed away after a brief illness on Saturday, December 5, 2020 in her 86th year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beloved wife of the late Frank Vandervoort (2017). Loving mother of Tom (Sandi) and mother-in-law of Nancy Vandervoort, all of Elmwood. Cherished grandmother of Kerri (Daryl Dunstan), Alaina, Brad and Jodi (Aaron Heipel) and great-grandmother of Eveah. Rita will be fondly remembered by her sister Kay Horan of Hanover, sister-in-law Mary Lou Cox of Walkerton and the entire Cox and Vandervoort families. She was predeceased by her son Rick (2020), brothers Jack (June), Gerald (Joyce), Bill Cox brother-in-law Jerome Horan and her parents Francis and Helena (Keais) Cox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A private Funeral Mass honouring Rita&#8217;s life will be held on Thursday, December 10, 2020 at Holy Family Catholic Church, Hanover. The Mass will be livestreamed for those who wish to view by going to: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/holyfamily.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/holyfamily.ca\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at 10 a.m. A recording of Rita\u2019s Mass will also be posted on the Rhody Family Funeral Home website afterwards. Father Emmanuel Azike officiating. Interment in Chesley Cemetery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Memorial\u00a0donations to the Chesley Hospital Foundation would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funeral arrangements entrusted to Rhody Family Funeral Home, Chesley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.rhodyfamily.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helen &#8220;Rita&#8221; Margaret (Cox) Vandervoort of Chesley, passed away after a brief illness on Saturday, December 5, 2020 in her 86th year. &nbsp; Beloved wife of the late Frank Vandervoort (2017). Loving mother of Tom (Sandi) and mother-in-law of Nancy Vandervoort, all of Elmwood. Cherished grandmother of Kerri (Daryl Dunstan), Alaina, Brad and Jodi (Aaron","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,3949,5167],"class_list":["post-78137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-chesley","tag-obituary","tag-vandervoort"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 10:00:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/obituaries\/2020\/12\/vandervoort-helen-age-85-chesley\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78141,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78137\/revisions\/78141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}