CORNWALL, Ontario, Canada — Jeannette V. Harps, 91, passed peacefully on Sunday, Oct. 17, at the Cornwall Community Hospital, McConnell Site in Cornwall. She was born in Auburn, Nov. 11, 1918, the daughter of Wilfred and Yvonne Belanger, and lived in the U.S. a big part of her life.

She was formerly employed at the Pepperell Mill for many years in Lewiston, worked at the greenhouse at Saunders Florist and from both she had many friends. Later she moved to Cornwall, Ontario, where she was employed at the Purse Factory and loved her job making purses. She had the eye for the styles and owned many as well.

She enjoyed life and lived hers to the fullest, some of her fondest things to do was certainly Shop Till You Drop, at least that is what she would always say to us, and walking with her friends at the Cornwall Mall every morning until she couldn’t any longer. She loved going to church on Sunday mornings and enjoyed eating out. Mom loved her food, especially the donut shop, having her muffins. One of her nurses even brought her a bran muffin the Thursday before she passed and told Sue, her daughter-in-law how very good it was.

But the love of her life was her children. She thanked God every day for them. Visiting her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Maine was what she lived for. Her last trip was in June of this year and she knew it was somehow going to be her last one for her health was beginning to fail her more so.

She had many good family and friends who watched over her when her children couldn’t, being so far away, and we thank God for that. She was a proud lady and didn’t want to be a burden to her children or anyone else and made that very clear. She was a very prim, proper and proud woman and always dressed the part, even her shoes to match.

She will be missed deeply by her family and friends but she is where she has wanted to be for some time now, with our Lord at home.

She leaves behind three sons, Raymond Harps and his wife, Susan, of Lewiston, Rheal Harps and his wife, Linda, of Monmouth and John Harps of Canada; two daughters, Shirley and husband, Gerald LeBlanc, of Greene and Sharon and her husband, Philip, of Lisbon; 10 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren, with three more on the way; a sister, Laurette Chabot of Mexico; and many relatives and wonderful nieces and nephews.

Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her daughter, Marie, who died at birth; and a sister, Carmel Betz.

Online messages of condolence may be made in the obituary section at www.wilsonfuneralhome.ca.