Winnie Steeves

Obituary of Winnie Steeves

Mrs. Winnie May (Ross) Steeves, of Plumweseep, NB, passed away at Sussex Health Centre on February 27, 2004 at the age of 93. Winnie was born October 6, 1910 on a farm in Fortune Head, on eastern Prince Edward Island. Fortune Head is such a remote area of the Island that even today it doesn't show up on most maps. She was the daughter of the late Neil and Lottie (MacLean) Ross and the beloved wife of the late Wendell Steeves who passed away in 1955. Winnie was a frail child and was not expected to reach adulthood. She didn't have it easy but she handled all of life's obstacles, until one day an algebra exam turned her life into an adventure. Winnie failed her algebra exam and her parents thought the 17-year-old would do better in New York as a nanny for her cousin's baby boy. Winnie had an older sister, Muriel, living in New York, who had just married an Irish Republican Doctor who had the best possible recommendation. As Winnie would tell it later,
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