DONAHOE, Felicia
Felicia Donahoe, age 94, devoted wife of the late Edward Donahoe, daughter of Fred and Rosalia (Schmidt) Seiferling, passed peacefully on July 7th, 2018 at the
Kings County Memorial Hospital. She is survived by her children, Jeananne, Rita, Gerard (Helen), Bernie (Desirée), John (Mary Ann), Bernadette (Danny) Walker, and Rosanne; grandchildren, Sandy (Dan), Sue (Jason), Christopher (Sarah), Nathan (Lindsay), Kiel, Michael (Megan), Peter (Julia), Katie (Jacob), Michelle, Robert (Katie), Scott, and Megan; great grandchildren, Alicia, Sam, Liam, Abigail, Nathaniel, and Salem; brothers, Joe and Jack Seiferling of Regina, Phina Deck of Regina, and Lauretta Haughey of Calgary. She is predeceased by sonin-law, Kenny MacLeod; brothers and sisters, Eva, Sebastien, Fred, Simon, Augustine, Clem, Millie, Ray, Betty, Antonia, Mary, and Marge; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Sr. Margaret, Marie Kane (Guy), Agnes Walsh (Earl), Sr. Regina, Gudula Roden, Rita Donahoe, John Donahoe (Pat), Florence Brothers (Alban), Robert Donahoe (Maureen), Laurena MacDonald (Allen), Anne Gill (Raymond), and Gavin Donahoe. Secular Franciscans will hold a prayer service before the wake. Visitation on Thursday, July 12th from 4 to 7 p.m. at Ferguson Logan Montague Funeral Home. Funeral mass will take place at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 13th at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Montague. Interment to follow in the parish cemetery. Donations to Inclusions East, Development and Peace, or a charity of your choice are appreciated. Family flowers only please.
Peter Carington, a long-serving British politician who was the last survivor of Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s government, has died, the government said Tuesday. He was 99.
The House of Lords website said he died Monday.
Known for being both refined and personable, Carington served as an agriculture minister in Churchill’s post-World
War II government. He went on to hold several of the top jobs in British politics, including Carington defence secretary and foreign secretary. He also was NATO secretary-general in the mid-1980s when there was a clear thawing in relations between Washington and Moscow.
“There can be few people who have served our country for as long, and with such dedication, as Lord Carrington did — from his gallantry as a tank commander in the Second World War, for which he was awarded the Military Cross, to his service in government under two monarchs and six prime ministers, dating back to Winston Churchill,” Prime Minster Theresa May said.
“He was a much loved and widely respected member of the House of Lords for nearly eight decades, and served with great honour and integrity in government.”
In 1982, Carington resigned as foreign secretary in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government after Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands.
Britain won the islands back after a brief war, but he blamed himself in part for failing to foresee the invasion and for not preventing it.
“You have to get things into perspective,” he would say years later. “I lost my job. Others lost their lives.”
He garnered admiration for resigning on a point of principle and in 1984 he was appointed secretary-general of NATO.