Suzanne was called back Sunday, 5 June, in her 54th year with her sister Michele (Oakville) and brother Paul (Dieppe, N.-B.) at her bedside. Suzie's defiant and tenacious battle against cancer ended at the Ian Anderson House, a unique palliative care unit in Oakville that provides end-of-life care with the highest degree of compassion, respect and dignity. Suzie's family was her greatest source of joy as well as cause for concern, especially for the last four years as she helped her Mother, Marie-Paule, in her struggle against the effects of Alzheimer's disease. Pre-deceased by her Dad, "Jack," in 2006, Suzie was the loving sister of Michele (her husband Robert Convery), and Paul (his wife Dominique Gendron). She was the devoted aunt to her four nieces Catherine and Stephanie Convery (Oakville) and Zoë and Gabrielle Curtis (Dieppe, N.-B.), the caring Godmother to the eldest and youngest of these nieces, as well as the doting companion of the "naughty Sophie," Suzie's Yorkshire Terrier. To her loyal friends and business associates, Suzanne will be remembered as a woman of great character, wit and energy who had the courage to rebuild her professional and personal lives after misfortune. To her health care givers in Oakville and the Princess Margaret and Saint Michael's Hospitals, she will be remembered as a woman of unusual will power who fought well beyond what most thought capable. To her family, she will be remembered as one who gave freely of herself even when she was in need, and as a woman of beauty and grace, both in spirit and in person. Suzie's caregivers are too numerous to list, but the family would like especially to thank Dr Rasheeda Haq, Dr Lynne Benjamin, Krystie Waugh RN, Nurses Lucille, Linda, Carol and Gerry as well as Louise, Violet, Angela, Tina and Doris -- Personal Support Workers at IAH. Visitation will take place Wednesday, 8 June (7:00-9:00 pm) at the Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral Home at 64 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville, Ontario (905-844-2600). Email condolences may be sent to kopriva@eol.ca; please place CURTIS in the subject line. A funeral mass will follow at Saint Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, 1150 Monks Pass, Oakville at 11:00 am Thursday, 9 June. Interment to follow at Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery. If desired, memorial contributions to the Ian Anderson House would be appreciated by the family (http://www.ianandersonhouse.com/donate.html). "Nothing so difficult as a beginning / … unless perhaps the end."