VRABAC, Ivanka

VRABAC Ivanka
1927-2020
MAGNUS POIRIER INC.Survived by: sons Ivan (Elena) and George (Michele); her granddaughters Ivanka and Marisa (Khaleel); great granddaughter, Elena.
She regarded each and everyone she met as a unique, multifaceted, complex human being with whole worlds of heart and thought to share. In English – this did not come through.
Nor did the fact that she had a very tough life right from the beginning: raised in a convent in Croatia, married young, survived WW2, new life in Canada, and even survived COVID-19!
But who she was, was not expressed in what she said, in English or Croatian – it was expressed in what she did.
She was a hard-working mother that loved reading, music – and above all, she loved her sons and their families and partners. Although she loved cooking and baking - she was packaged in layers - wife, mother, woman, grandmother, great grandmother. But wrapped around her are years of living, pain, joy, death, giving, growing, being.
She loved the colour blue and the blue windless skies …Now she will be a part of them forever.

“Those we love and lose are together with us in heart, forever with us in memory.”
Visitation will be held at Magnus Poirier Funeral Complex, 10300 Pie IX Blvd, on Sunday, September 13, 2020 from 1 to 2 p.m. A funeral service will follow at 2 p.m. at the Chapel of the Complex, thence burial at The Laval Cemetery, 5505 Chemin Bas St-François.