March 9, 1936 – March 21, 2016
Deeply loved and with profound sadness, Angela Raymondé Morel-Moesman aged 80, passed away in her sleep at FMC, Calgary early on March 21st, 2016. Angela Mason was born in Hornsey, London, UK and grew up in Bournemouth, Dorset. Angela became a police constable there, but moved with husband Frits Moesman to Brabant, Netherlands where she had hoped to spend the rest of her life. The Moesmans came to Calgary in 1970 for their daughter Suzanne who needed a high, dry climate to survive. Son Sean came on board in 1972. Widowed in 1995, Angela married Paul Morel in September 1996, and moved to Cochrane in 1997.
Angela experienced many damages to her body over the years which she faced with immeasurable strength of character, humour and faith. A fractured neck (rear-ended by a delivery truck in 1978) led her to a clinic in La Crosse Wisconsin for management of severe pain through physical therapy and biofeedback. As she was an OT Technician at the old Holy Cross Hospital at the time, she was able to teach patients these biofeedback techniques. In 1984 she tripped on a broken stone step in an old stairwell in the Holy Cross Hospital landing on both knees; this injury forced her to give up the work she loved and she became registered with the WCB. In 1995 the first knee replacement went bad, for reasons still unknown, and was sent to the Mayo Clinic with equally inconclusive results. Luckily, the two subsequent knee replacements held. Angela herself discovered from the Mayo Clinic x-rays a lesion in her left thigh bone, which indicated she had stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. This required more metal to stabilize the weakened femur. Somehow, the cancer was controlled, but since 1999 needed to spend the rest of her life in a motorized wheelchair.
Angela had wonderful singing skills, and was an excellent writer and poet, winning a number of awards from individually published poems. She completed her own life story and a volume of poetry, as yet unpublished. Angela was a many talented person in her life, participating in church choirs, teaching catechism, organizing social events, and touched everyone with her kindness, friendliness and her joy of and involvement with all aspects of life, despite her handicapped state.
Angela is survived by husband Paul, daughter Suzanne Nethery (Keith) with grandchildren Sarah-Anne, Rebekah and Noah of London, ON and son Sean Moesman (Melissa) with grandchildren Amelia and Bradley, of Cape Cod, MA USA. In England surviving her are older sister Pamela Stone, of Chichester, and younger brother David Mason (Vivienne) of Poole, Dorset and numerous nieces, nephews.
A service celebrating her life was held on April 2, 2016 at St. Stephens Memorial Anglican Church in London, Ontario, with her family and friends. Angela’s ashes will be interred at Brandon Cemetery in Belgrave, Ontario. May she rest in peace. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Angela Morel-Moesman, please visit our flower store.
Deeply loved and with profound sadness, Angela Raymondé Morel-Moesman aged 80, passed away in her sleep at FMC, Calgary early on March 21st, 2016. Angela Mason was born in Hornsey, London, UK and grew up in Bournemouth, Dorset. Angela became a police constable there, but moved with husband Frits Moesman to Brabant, Netherlands where she had hoped to spend the rest of her life. The Moesmans came to Calgary in 1970 for their daughter Suzanne who needed a high, dry climate to survive. Son Sean came on board in 1972. Widowed in 1995, Angela married Paul Morel in September 1996, and moved to Cochrane in 1997.
Angela experienced many damages to her body over the years which she faced with immeasurable strength of character, humour and faith. A fractured neck (rear-ended by a delivery truck in 1978) led her to a clinic in La Crosse Wisconsin for management of severe pain through physical therapy and biofeedback. As she was an OT Technician at the old Holy Cross Hospital at the time, she was able to teach patients these biofeedback techniques. In 1984 she tripped on a broken stone step in an old stairwell in the Holy Cross Hospital landing on both knees; this injury forced her to give up the work she loved and she became registered with the WCB. In 1995 the first knee replacement went bad, for reasons still unknown, and was sent to the Mayo Clinic with equally inconclusive results. Luckily, the two subsequent knee replacements held. Angela herself discovered from the Mayo Clinic x-rays a lesion in her left thigh bone, which indicated she had stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. This required more metal to stabilize the weakened femur. Somehow, the cancer was controlled, but since 1999 needed to spend the rest of her life in a motorized wheelchair.
Angela had wonderful singing skills, and was an excellent writer and poet, winning a number of awards from individually published poems. She completed her own life story and a volume of poetry, as yet unpublished. Angela was a many talented person in her life, participating in church choirs, teaching catechism, organizing social events, and touched everyone with her kindness, friendliness and her joy of and involvement with all aspects of life, despite her handicapped state.
Angela is survived by husband Paul, daughter Suzanne Nethery (Keith) with grandchildren Sarah-Anne, Rebekah and Noah of London, ON and son Sean Moesman (Melissa) with grandchildren Amelia and Bradley, of Cape Cod, MA USA. In England surviving her are older sister Pamela Stone, of Chichester, and younger brother David Mason (Vivienne) of Poole, Dorset and numerous nieces, nephews.
A service celebrating her life was held on April 2, 2016 at St. Stephens Memorial Anglican Church in London, Ontario, with her family and friends. Angela’s ashes will be interred at Brandon Cemetery in Belgrave, Ontario. May she rest in peace. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Angela Morel-Moesman, please visit our flower store.
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