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Thursday
14
July
Celebration of Life
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Brenan’s Funeral Home Chapel
111 Paradise Row
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
506-634-7424
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Carol and Bill Sutton posted a condolence
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Clinton,
We are sorry we could not attend this afternoon. We would like very much to see you and your family. Our thoughts are with you.
Carol and Bill Sutton
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Dan & Vicky McLaughlin posted a condolence
Sunday, June 5, 2022
Clinton & family, sending sincere condolences to you in your time of grief. Fond remembrances of you folks during our time with Four Valley Dancers. We had a lot of fun together. So very sorry for your loss.
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Lois Bunnell posted a condolence
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
To the family of Mary Lou. I extend my greatest sympathies. She was a little spitfire and so pleasant to be around. I met you both in Sussex and found you to be the nicest, cutest couple who enjoyed life to the fullest. I loved listening to your life stories and adventures. She will be missed by many but I am sure she is running around catching up with everybody. You will one day be together again and the square dance will last forever. Peace be with you.
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Bill and Shirley Cox posted a condolence
Monday, March 7, 2022
Dear Clinton and Family ..
Sending our deepest sympathy for the loss of your Mary Lou .
We always enjoyed visiting the two of you in Quispamsis and in Florida. Mary Lou always had delicious refreshments ready
to serve . She will be missed by many .
Take care of yourself Clinton ...we will see you when we return home in April .
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Linda Eifler posted a condolence
Monday, March 7, 2022
I was so sorry to learn of Mary Lou's passing. It was my pleasure to have worked with her and Clinton when they decided to build a home in Quispamsis on Aiden Lane. Visiting with them over the years was always so enjoyable.I offer my sincere condolences to Clinton and family at this difficult time.
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bertha j johnston posted a condolence
Monday, March 7, 2022
Clinton very sorry to here of Mary Lou passing our prayers and thoughts are with you
Bertha and George Johnston
Hampton Hoedowners
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Pam and Larry posted a condolence
Saturday, March 5, 2022
So sorry for you loss Clinton and family. Marylou and Clinton have had several of our pomeranians. The were very lucky to be loved and cared for by both of them. Marylou was always so kind to us inviting us for supper and sharing her jams, pickles and homemade wine with us. Larry and I always said we hope we will be as active and involved in our community as Mary Lou and Clinton were in their eighties. We will miss you!
Pam and Larry
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June Wilband posted a condolence
Saturday, March 5, 2022
MaryLou & I met in grade school at Woodlawn School, we became fast friends. After growing up, we went our separate ways. Although we would meet up at the Harry Rigby Dances, and always happy to see each other. We moved to Cambridge-Narrows in 1992, and met up with MaryLou & Clinton at a farmer’s market.We became close again, after a few years apart. We all were going to Florida at this time & only lived 10 mins. apart and visited frequently. After my husband passed, MaryLou & Clinton were always there for me. I would spend Christmas Eve & day with them,they were my salvation.We had many wonderful times Square dancing and socializing.MaryLou was a very kind & giving person, always busy, knitting, sewing or cooking. Always made you feel so at home, most kind & thoughtful person,she will be missed by so many. My thoughts & Prayers are with Clinton & family at this most difficult time!
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Ian D. Macarthur posted a condolence
Friday, March 4, 2022
to the Northrup family
so sorry for your loss, Mary Lou lived next door to me on Byron St,in Forest Hills many years ago she and my mother were good friends
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Bill and Faye Pearson posted a condolence
Friday, March 4, 2022
Clinton and Family, Bill and I are very sorry to hear of Mary Lou’s passing. We hope many good memories will comfort you at this difficult time and in the days to come. Bill and Cousin Faye X0
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Nellie (Perry) Clarke posted a condolence
Friday, March 4, 2022
Sorry to hear of Mary Lou passing always remmeber her coming to our house in codys .she was a cousin to us. Nellie (Perry) Clarke
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Mary Needle posted a condolence
Friday, March 4, 2022
So sorry to read about Mary-Lou's passing. Enjoyed talking to her at Valley Cruisers Car Club functions, RIP Mary-Lou
Mary Needle
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Herb and Myra Isbill posted a condolence
Friday, March 4, 2022
To Clinton and Family. We sere so very sorry to read of Mary Lou's passing. Sharing lots of good memories over the years. Please accept our sincere condolences at this sad time. Herb and Myra Isbill
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Eric Stewart posted a condolence
Friday, March 4, 2022
So sorry to hear of Mary Lou passing, danced many a squares with her and Clinton over the years. She will be missed by all us dancers. Thoughts and prayers go out to Clinton and all the family.
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Mary Lou was like a second mother to me, we spent so much time together over the years. She desperately wanted children and suffered a total of five miscarriages but was never blessed with a child. As a small child I used to visit often to her home in Forest Hills, east Saint John. I can remember in the 70s when ceramics was all the rage she purchased her own kiln and together we spent hours painting our treasures. She was the baby of the family with her sister Rita being the oldest, then my father Tom, then Doug and lastly Mary Lou. She never knew her father as he died in a car accident on Main Street Saint John when she was only 6 months old. As a young women she married Sheldon (Dutchy) Barkhouse who was head of the first computer division on NBTEL. Known for her great Christmas decorating, she won the prize every year for the best Christmas lights in the city. When Dutchy was only in his mid-forties he was putting up these lights and fell off the ladder breaking his back and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. He used a wheelchair for the rest of his life in an era when public places were not wheelchair friendly. Mary Lou looked after him with loving care until his death at 58 years old. It was during this era that they decided to build a wheelchair friendly home on a large track of land at Coles Island on the Washademoak Lake where they formerly had a historic summer cottage. What great memories of visiting Mary Lou in Codys where my grandmother lived with her as well. We were always met with her warm smile and of course you had to have a lunch of her homemade cooking before you left and were sent off with fresh vegetables from Dutchys huge garden. She always had an interesting project going and was a beautiful seamstress able to make any type of clothing, even making her own patterns! Due to Dutchy's condition she always stayed home looking after him and my grandmother. In those days even a visit to a restaurant was impossible as there were very few wheelchair ramps.
After his passing she met her current husband Clinton Northrup, also from Codys and her life totally changed. Clinton loved to dance (as did she) and they had a fantastic time together with friends at local dances, kitchen parties, church suppers but the most fun was square dancing! They went every week and Mary Lou made a square dance outfit for the two of them for every occasion from St Patrick's Day to the Strawberry Festival. Whatever was going on she and Clinton were there and ready to go.
At first they bought a motor home and travelled south in the winter across the states but not long after they purchased a home in Auburndale Florida and enjoy twenty one winters south away from the snow. Mary Lou had a lot of friends here and a lot in Florida. She was very outgoing, friendly, smiling and quick to talk to strangers everywhere she went. Her summers were spent at her home in Quispamsis and the fun didn't stop as they lived their active life together. She was so good to me and so thoughtful. When I'd have long days at work and would drag myself home exhausted I'd arrive to find she'd dropped off her homemade Shepherd's Pie and apple crisp so that I wouldn't have to make supper. Anything she could do to help people she did from inviting a recent widower to supper so he wouldn't be alone or dropping off a gift to someone going through a hard time. She was always thinking of others. Her day started at 6 am and ended at 11pm. At 84 I didn't know many 50 year olds that could keep up with her. She kept her own home and it was meticulous!!! She absolutely loved dogs especially the toy Pomeranians. She owned many over her lifetime starting with Beaver, Candy, Lucas, Myra and Viola. They were her babies and she treasured them.
There are so many great memories of trips with her to Disney World, Bal Harbour FL, Boston and Hilton Head Island. She'd come and stay with Doug and I and was up for anything rather it was on a roller coaster in the Magic Kingdom, watching Boston Ballet's Nutcracker or a swim in the ocean in Bal Harbour. If there is one line that sums up my aunt Mary Lou Northrup it is that she dearly loved life and lived everyday to the fullest! She passed at home in her sleep, may she rest in peace, she will be missed so much.
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Brittany totten Posted Mar 4, 2022 at 10:39 AM
That’s beautiful Katherine. She loved you so much. I will miss her. She always made me laugh. Xoxox
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Royce Brown posted a condolence
Friday, March 4, 2022
My deepest sympathy to the family.We were friends from high school .Iwas her bridesmaid and she was my matron of honor a year apart,She was always a breath of fresh air,
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Lori l Burnside posted a condolence
Friday, March 4, 2022
So sorry to read of Mary Lou's passing, she was a wonderful lady and a great friend to my late mom Heather DeGrace...thoughts and prayers to you all.
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Thursday, March 3, 2022
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