{"id":146541,"date":"2023-11-16T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/rwddev\/?p=146541"},"modified":"2023-11-16T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T19:43:46","slug":"violet-montpetit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/violet-montpetit\/","title":{"rendered":"Violet Montpetit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April 14, 1940 \u2013 October 13, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is with profound sadness that the family of Violet (Vi) Montpetit announces her peaceful passing on October 13, 2023, at the age of 83 years, surrounded by all her children.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is predeceased by her loving husband Turner Montpetit of 61 years.&nbsp; She is lovingly remembered by her three children: Colette (Dan), Melanie, Matthew (Jennifer), her Grandchildren; Thomas, Casey (Wyatt), Connor (Niki), Jacob, Ethan, Owen and her Great Grandchild, Wesley along with numerous siblings,&nbsp;cousins, nieces and nephews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Toronto in 1940, and immediately moving to South River, Vi grew up on a farm just outside of town. She and her&nbsp;six sisters and two brothers grew up in a house filled with music, singing, and dancing. While her first job was cooking in the&nbsp;kitchen of a logging camp at age 13, it was her&nbsp;love of children and teaching that led to her career as a teacher. She first taught&nbsp;in the Huntsville area, being one of the last teachers in the one-room school house&nbsp;in Stisted Township. Her teaching career&nbsp;lasted&nbsp;over 40 years in the North Bay, Timmins, and Almaguin areas. Vi loved meeting up with former students and hearing where their lives had taken them. Vi\u2019s<br>years of teaching experience held her in good stead as she continued to privately&nbsp;tutor many students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vi met, and charmed,&nbsp;Turner while waitressing&nbsp;in Huntsville and the two&nbsp;married in 1962. After a few years of living and teaching&nbsp;in North Bay and in Timmins, Vi and Turner settled with their children in Sundridge and quickly immersed&nbsp;themselves into the community.&nbsp; Whilst continuing to supply teach, Vi helped&nbsp;Turner to&nbsp;start&nbsp;Almaguin Sports, took over&nbsp;the MTO licensing office, and&nbsp;later started a pizza shop and bakery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vi&nbsp;was Akela to many local Cub Scouts, completed two terms on Strong Council, was Chair of the Community Living Board, and served on&nbsp;the Sundridge\/Strong Library Board for many years, a commitment that she loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lovingly known&nbsp;by her family as Vi Pi, she had many passions that included&nbsp;singing and dancing in the Almaguin Choir Society for over 30 years, volunteering at countless&nbsp;community events, and baking and sharing&nbsp;her famous butter tarts and chocolate chip cookies. She was a reader&nbsp;and loved&nbsp;playing card games.&nbsp;&nbsp;Her&nbsp;family enjoyed playing&nbsp;Scrabble and Quirkle with her despite&nbsp;knowing&nbsp;that they weren\u2019t going to win. Traveling with Turner and her family was a passion for Vi.&nbsp;&nbsp; Over the years, she travelled to Mexico, across Canada from BC to Newfoundland, various places in the United States,&nbsp;and all over Ontario\u2019s waterways in their boat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family was very important to Vi, shown by the many family reunions she hosted at their home on Lake Bernard, as well as the many cross-country journeys she made to visit her sisters and brothers, including a very recent trip to Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vi will be remembered by many for her ability&nbsp;to cook incredible meals over an open fire while camping in Algonquin Park and Northern Ontario&nbsp;or&nbsp;to put on large feasts,&nbsp;whether it be on&nbsp;her dining table in Sundridge or from&nbsp;the wood stove at the Sugar Bush Bunkie in Huntsville. Her family will always remember enjoying a&nbsp;simple \u2018pick lunch\u2019&nbsp;while traveling with Turnie on their boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vi loved life and shared her joy in many ways. We will remember&nbsp;her joy at organizing large groups of children, &nbsp;her love of owls, her tales to her grandchildren, of growing up on a farm, and her adventures with skunks under the outhouse.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family will receive friends on Saturday, November 25, 2023, at Christ Church Port Sydney from 10:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m. Followed by the Memorial Service at 2:00 p.m. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Opatovsky Funeral Home- Moore Chapel. If desired, donations to &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opatovskyfuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/violet-montpetit#make-donation\">Scouts Canada<\/a>, Sundridge Lions Medical Lending Library, or Christ Church Anglican Port Sydney would be gratefully acknowledged as expressions of sympathy.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opatovskyfuneralhome.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online condolences at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opatovskyfuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/violet-montpetit\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.opatovskyfuneralhome.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 14, 1940 \u2013 October 13, 2023 It is with profound sadness that the family of Violet (Vi) Montpetit announces her peaceful passing on October 13, 2023, at the age [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":146547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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