Marie Jeannette Gravelle It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Jeannette Gravelle on February 24th at Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton. Jeannette was born August 31st, 1939 in Estevan SK to Joseph and Simonne (Blais) Rainault.
It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Jeannette Gravelle on February 24th at Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton. Jeannette was born August 31st, 1939 in Estevan SK to Joseph and Simonne (Blais) Rainault. She was the oldest of 5 children, her siblings Denise, Evelyn, Jerry & Bernard. They lived on a farm in Macoun until 1945 when the family moved to Delmas. This is where she met her life partner and loving husband Bernard. Jeannette attended school in Delmas as well as Momart and Battleford Convents. She later attended a Business Program in Saskatoon, all of which she was very successful. She played piano beautifully and shared her gift by teaching lessons. Jeannette and Bernard were married in 1958 in Delmas, SK. They lived on farms in Macoun and Spiritwood SK. They had eight children together. Joseph, Cy, Angela, Regina, Charlena, Bartley, Cherie and Michael. Jeannette was a dedicated and gracious farm wife and mother who loved to care for others and had special relationships with everyone she encountered. Bernard & Jeannette later moved to Sherwood Park, AB where they lived for many years together doing the most amazing woodwork and furniture that you can see in almost every room of their children and grandchildren’s homes. Jeannette was always happiest with a table and house full of friends and family; she was a very honest and gracious woman who had a way of making you feel as though you were special enough just the way you are. She is already so missed by her surviving family; her loving husband Bernard, sister Denise & Brian O’Grady, brothers Jerry, Bernard & Marilyn, son Cy and Sandy and his children Tyler & Becky, Tamina & Kent Brown, daughter Angela & Gordon Allenby and their son Eric, daughter Charlena & Brent Robinson their children Chandra & Farrell Francis, David & Sarah-Dawn Robinson, Butch & Edna and their children Darnell, Mitchell & Josee, Tyrell and Cantrell, daughter Cherie & Mark Eppler their daughters Kyra & Kelsi, son Michael and his children Chelsea and Taryn and numerous great grandchildren. She is predeceased by her two children whom she is playing freely with now, Joseph & Regina, her sister and brother in law Evelyn & Marcel Lessard and her daughter in law Barbara Gravelle. Funeral services will be held at 2pm Tuesday, March 1st 2016 at St. Vital Roman Catholic Church in Battleford, SK with lunch to follow. Burial services will be held May 10th in Macoun, SK.
