OLIVEIRA, Maria J. - God called up Maria J. Oliveira on Saturday November 14, 2020 at the age of 90.
She was born on the day of love, February 14, 1930 in Biscoites, Azores. She met the love of her life and married our dad Carlos and their love created four cherished daughters.
With her bravery, tenacity along with her husband and daughters migrated to California for 5 years and then too took a bigger leap of faith moving to the big north Canada which became their permanent residence.
She is reunited in heaven with her beloved husband, Carlos, her daughter Arline and her cherished son-in-law Francois and great grand son Niko.
Cherished by her dear children. Susan, (Ricky)Manuela (Gary) and Lucia (Deceased Francois).
Very proud grandmother to David, Christina (Denny) Kevin (Tracey), Daniel (Cristina), Johnny, Patricia (Anthony), Katrina (Joshua), Jesse (Vanessa), Stephanie (John) and Melissa (Matt).
Great Grandmother to, Sofie, Anthony, Chelsea, Kaliyah, Sienna, Mason, Julius, Jordyn, Athena, Valentina and Summer.
Our mother will be most remembered for being the beloved Avo, by her family and her friends who became her family.
She was a chef in her own right with the ability to fuse the Portuguese Canadian culture to the Dinner table often.
Our Mother enjoyed traveling with her seniors’ group and was fortunate enough to travel to, Atlantic City, Chicago, New York City, Myrtle Beach for dance competitions and was even able to witness her Granddaughter Katrina performing on the Royal Caribbean. She was blessed to attend two destinations weddings Dominican Republic and Jamaica.
Our mom always spoke fondly how honoured she was to attend the weddings of all her grandchildren. Our mother was always excited to travel to New Brunswick to visit Susan and Ricky for bonding time and creating memories.
One of the fondness characteristics of our mother that we will treasure although she was widowed at a young age and missed and mourned our father in black, it never dimmed her matriarch leadership qualities of love, patience and laughter.
Her legacy of love and tolerance will live on forever as she taught us all well the best ingredient of life is love and family.
Rest well in paradise Mom/Avo we love you!.
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