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The Funeral

Helen and I took mike and Lisa to Moncton airport for an early flight; we left here at 2:30 am.  Helen and I were planning on staying over but I guess we were restless and came back home.  We arrived home shortly after five,  and had a message from a RCMP member.   He came here and told us that a positive ID had been made through dental records and it was Reggie.  We at first thought it would take about a week, finally we had closure.

We decided to put off the funeral until Saturday afternoon June 24. Our reason was that Steven was graduating on June 22 and the funeral would not interfere with his school work, we had waited six months as it was, there would be no wake and we will invite people to come down to our home

 We left about 1:30 for the church.  It was to be a high mass.  When I left home I did not know if there would be anyone attending.  Reggie in the last three or four years never attended church.  When the mass started to our greatest astonishment, the church was full.  They came from near and far; many were unknown to Helen and I.  The service was magnificent, something you would dream about, and most who attended were astonished especially with Father Gallant’s homily about someone he never knew.  Cindy opened the service with Sarah McLaughlin’s, “I will remember you” and Melvin and Michael Ford closed the service with a church --- “Snow white dove”.  Many people told us it was the nicest funeral they had ever attended.  It was very gratifying to use, Reggie got a wonderful sendoff.  I firmly believe that without Art’s superior knowledge of Reggie and the elements and who to contact, we would have been waiting a long time to solve Reggie’s disappearance.

The Memorial Site