ROARK, Maureen Louise (nee COKER) - 1946 - 2021 With a great ache in his heart, Mike Roark announces the passing of his wife of 41 years, Maureen.
Daughter of Ben and Ada Coker (deceased) and sister of Richard Coker, Trenton, and Bob Coker, Wooler.
Maureen passed into Jesus' presence at the Belleville General Hospital, on September 10, 2021.
We are all sad but she is now resting in the arms of Jesus Christ, her Saviour whom she invited into her heart while working in Beirut, Lebanon, as a Physiotherapist.
Maureen was taken from us after a five-year-long battle with Frontotemporal Dementia.
"She is now free!"
Maureen was born in North Bay, Ontario, on the 13th of June, 1946.
She grew up on the Trenton Airbase as her father was a School Teacher at Bredner Public School.
She spent 4 years at the University of Toronto and graduated from the Rehab Medicine Program as a Physiotherapist, in 1968.
Following graduation, she worked in hospitals in Vancouver, Peterborough, Beirut, Lebanon, Ottawa, Vancouver again, and also the Trenton Airbase Hospital.
Because of her commitment to Jesus Christ, she then attended the Canadian Bible College in Regina, Saskatchewan, from 1974-1978, graduating with honors, with a B.A. in Theology.
From 1978-1981, she worked in churches in Salem, Oregon, and Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
Mike and Maureen married on the 15th of June, 1979, and spent the next 25 years as missionaries with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Southeast Asia (15 years in Indonesia, Borneo, and 10 years in the Northeastern Hill Tribes area of Cambodia).
They have no children but have hundreds of spiritual children scattered through the jungles of Asia.
Funeral Service to be held at the Trenton Baptist Church, 125 Dixon Drive, Trenton, on Saturday, September 18, 2021, at 1:00 p.m., with visitation prior from 12:15 p.m. until service time at 1:00 p.m.
Those wishing to attend the visitation and/or service are requested to register with Steele Funeral Home, 1-877-256-3688/613-968-2273, between the hours of 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
As expressions of sympathy, donations in memory of Maureen may be made to the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Canada (for work in Indonesia and Cambodia) or the Quinte Humane Society in Belleville (she loved kitties).
The Funeral Service will be Livestreamed. Please contact the Trenton Baptist Church for further information (613-392-4596).
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