We received a donation this week in memory of Joan Potvin. The name sounded familiar but I couldn’t place it. I asked Dennis Brown and he supplied the following reminiscence and photo:
“Joan Potvin was a friend of ours. She died of a brain tumor that took over 2 years from diagnosis to the end. In her youth she was a national level swimmer and in later years a golfer and curler. In fact Joan Potvin was the first female president of the Lachine curling club. I was asked by Doug her husband , a professor of mathematics at Loyola, to say a few words at her viewing. The room was filled with Lachine curling members. I followed a prayer by the Archbishop of Montreal with a reading from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 . I spent the next several months being referred to as "The Rev." on the ice.
Joan was a lovely lady.
PS. The picture is Joan at Lachine Curling Club where she and a team catered my daughter Carolyn's wedding reception.”
Joan Potvin passed away in June 2005. Rev. David married Joan’s son Allan to Dawn Svoronos in 2012.
Amy