Contributions to the tribute of Joanne Kee

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Virginia (Adcock) Brown posted a condolence

Sunday, February 6, 2022

To the two families and her devoted friend Phyllis, My goodness, fond memories come flooding back to many of us from SJHS, class of 1973, Im sure. Her musical talent was a power to be reckoned with. My fondest memory lies in watching her dance “like no one was watching” at our SJHS Reunion at Lily Lake. Her energy and enjoyment of yoga was apparent beyond measure. I don’t know how she did it! Her life may have been shortened but was very intense, revolving around the many activities she loved - Yoga, music, teaching, singing, performing, directing, choreography, and the list goes on. I take comfort that she is once again reunited with her loved ones and also pray that she is assigned as one of the lead soloists in God’s Heavenly Choir. Virginia (Adcock) Brown, BTh.,CGS, CPE(2)

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Stephen uploaded photo(s)

Monday, January 24, 2022

Photos of Joanne peeling a pot of hard boiled eggs at a 3-week meditation/yoga retreat with a group of like-minded friends in Prince Edward Island several years ago.

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Wendy Bennett posted a condolence

Monday, January 24, 2022

To Joanne's family, other family and Phyllis Knox, I send my deepest sympathy on the loss of Joanne. I first met her when she was part of Opera N. B..with me!! She was in her late teens and such a talented, vibrant personality. Always full of fun with that big wonderful laugh!! Lost touch when she moved but wherever we crossed paths, she still had that amazing smile and warm hello. My heart goes out to her family and friends. May she be at Eternal Rest and Peace . God Bless!! Wendy (Nixon) Bennett

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Nora & Kevin Boudreau posted a condolence

Monday, January 24, 2022

To Joanne's family and friends - we wish to express our condolences on your loss of a wonderful lady and leader, she was indeed a very special person and we were so blessed to have known her. She coached our daughter, Jessica, in singing lessons for quite some time and enriched our lives greatly. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all. Sincerely Nora & Kevin Boudreau

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Stanislas Paulin posted a condolence

Monday, January 24, 2022

To Joanne's family, and to her good friend Phyllis Knox: I was blessed to have shared many wonderful music-making and life-giving moments with Joanne while at Saint John High, where we graduated together in 1973; be it in the choir under Robert Edwards (and Symphony Choir), 'Guys and Dolls', 'Fiddler on the Roof', and 'Annie Get Your Gun' - which Andrew Garrod had staged in order to feature Joanne's exceptional talent. I was given the honour and privilege to briefly visit with Phyllis and Joanne while she was at the SJ Regional before going to Bobby's Hospice. She was an exceptional individual. May she now eternally rest in peace. Father Stanislas Paulin - 'Stan'

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Stephany Peterson posted a condolence

Sunday, January 23, 2022

To Joanne’s original family, other family, and her lifelong friend, I share these words on behalf of the scores of children whose love of music was enriched by Joanne’s tutelage. I remember the thrill of learning her last name: delighted that a woman who so clearly exuded a life for music would be aptly named with such a homophone. The strands of the folk song “I Know Where I’m Going” come to me, and I shall sing them lustily for her now as she once taught me (with a waggle of my fingers with a ring for every one as the lyrics go). May you find peace in this new life chapter as a family. We stand with you to honour a cherished life. Stephany Peterson

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Brenda smith posted a condolence

Sunday, January 23, 2022

I am so saddened by the loss of this wonderful woman..i was blessed to have done yoga with her for many a year.it was always a treat as she peppered all her classes with laughter and stories.i remember her story of coming across a turtle on the road she kept putting in back in the woods and it kept coming back as only joanne could tell the story.my regrets to all the family and friends esp her musical friends..my thoughts are with you all..she will have everyone in heaven laughing and doing yoga..hugs to you all...namaste

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Nadine Mullin posted a condolence

Sunday, January 23, 2022

I was blessed to meet Joanne when I was 22, initially as a friend of the family and luckily for me, she became my vocal coach. She guided much more than my singing, as she encouraged my soul and my heart with her wit and wisdom, her joie-de-vivre and kindness. During the ten years I can't with Belle Voce, Joanne graced our lives richly! I always loved best when she would step in and sing with us, or we would get to hear her at one of her soirees - simply amazing. She was a generous, gracious host who regaled us with the best of animal stories sprinkled with her incomparable humour and life lessons, after which we would gather around the piano and all sing together. She was a great connecter, an easy uplifter. Anne, Jane and Graham and family, Cynthia and Phyllis too - my sincere condolences - such a huge loss. Thinking of you all.

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Fenwick Bonnell posted a condolence

Saturday, January 22, 2022

That beautiful open face, always on the edge of a laugh… a big laugh! I hope to always have a picture of it committed to memory. Please accept my sincerest sympathies to Joanne’s dear friends and family for your loss. Fenwick Bonnell

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David Mennier posted a condolence

Saturday, January 22, 2022

Our condolences to all of Joanne's family and friends. She was a wonderful friend to our mother Alice Mennier, generous with her time and always up for a drive in the country or to simply sit over a cup of tea and share amazing stories about music and her many adventures. Thanks Joanne, and God bless!

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Frank Ervin posted a condolence

Saturday, January 22, 2022

Joanne's passing will leave a gap in all who knew her. I had the privilege of being in the Saint John High School class of 1973 with Joanne. Her spirit of adventure led her to accept a last minute offer from my late father to attend Basic Officer Training at CFB Shilo in the summer of 1974. With no prior military experience she excelled at the many challenges taking the same rigorous training as her male counterparts that summer. The success of that experiment with integration and emancipation was in no small part due to the courage and can do attitude of Joanne and her peers. Joanne was a good friend and I will miss her. Sincere condolences to her family.

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Richard and Sandra Thorne uploaded photo(s)

Saturday, January 22, 2022

Sandra and I have a flood-gate of memories of Joanne from her SJHS days and from the many times we met over the last years. She was a student in my class and her laughter (and sometimes humour only available to those around her) frequently kept my history classes in an uproar. No matter, we loved it and we loved the culture in which she lived - creative, artistic and loving. My favourite memory is the night of Dennis Knibb's gala send off and Joanne brought him to tears and audience to a standing ovation when she belted out "you can't get a man with a gun" from Annie Get Your Gun". Love to all her families including her fur friends. Richard and Sandra (Keirstead) Thorne

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Barry Breger posted a condolence

Saturday, January 22, 2022

What a rich, creative and varied life, albeit too short. My experience of Joanne was of a person who spread joy, pleasure and laughs. She possessed a gentle, often hilarious, always sensitive, kind and self deprecating sense of humour which she shared generously. I knew her only briefly, during long-separated, Windsong retreats, but I loved her. She was easy to love. She was "good" - in the purest sense of that oftentimes banal and overused word. Despite the rarity of our times together and the distance between us, I shall miss her being in the world. My condolences to her family and friends.

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Debbie Sabean posted a condolence

Saturday, January 22, 2022

I am so sorry to hear of the death of Joanne. Joanne and I were in first year university together and enjoyed many Good times in class and out. I have seen her over the years from time to time and it was always good to remember our year together at school! My condolences to her family and friends.

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Kate McLellan posted a condolence

Friday, January 21, 2022

So sorry to hear of Joanne’s passing. She was a big part of my life. Besides going to high school with Joanne, I took voice lessons with her for many years. Joanne was instrumental in starting our Belle Voce singing group and she was always close to our hearts. She was always there and never missed one of our concerts, mouthing the words and breathing when we breathed. Joanne shared many of her hilarious stories, many about animals, that always kept us entertained. She had such a wit and such a big heart. She will be very much missed. Condolences to Joanne’s friends and family. The world has lost a wonderful person.

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Neil MacKenzie posted a condolence

Friday, January 21, 2022

So sorry to hear of Joanne 's passing. We were neighbors in the 60's and 70's and remember all the grief all of the younger neighborhood thugs ( Graham 's buddies) tried to give her but she always seemed to one up us. I still remember a dance at the old K -Park school where I had my first waltz and Joanne was my dance partner to " Bridge over Troubled Water. I had a chance to catch up with Joanne a couple of years ago when she came to Dad's viewing she was the same upbeat bubbly person I remember. -Neil MacKenzie

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Iris Stevenson posted a condolence

Friday, January 21, 2022

My deepest sympathy goes to Joanne’s family.I met Joanne thru her Mother many years ago, then I decided to take up yoga and Joanne was my teacher, we had a few laughs.She was a lovely person.

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Jack Nielsen posted a condolence

Friday, January 21, 2022

The smile in this photo says it all. You will be missed. An honor to be a "Friend" with you. Cynthia, Mike and Family and the Kee family sincere sympathies Jack Nielsen

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Peter Dowd posted a condolence

Friday, January 21, 2022

My deepest sympathy to all Joanne Kee's Family & Friends, I 've got great memories of JoAnnne performing in the SJHS Musicals in the early 1970's. JoAnne was a gifted singer & natural entertainer with wonderful stage presence as well. She definitely made a great impact on many people's lives with her musical & physical abilities ( Yoga May she rest in peace for a life well lived.

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Kelly Green posted a condolence

Friday, January 21, 2022

Joanne was my yoga teacher a number of years ago and I shall never forget her kind spirit, generous soul and infectious laugh. She made a lasting impression on all her students. A wonderful lady and bright star gone to soon. Rest In Peace Joanne. Kelly Green

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Dawn Lamb posted a condolence

Friday, January 21, 2022

I was deeply saddened to learn of Joanne's passing. Joanne was my Monday night yoga teacher for many years. She always came to class with a story to share of her family or Jack Russell, and would make us heartily laugh and come to life. She had a strong voice and joyful spirit, and put people who never did yoga quickly at ease. Joanne was encouraging and very knowledgeable, and taught us to feel the effects of yoga and our breath. To say she was a good instructor is an understatement. Many of us would go to her musical concerts to see another part of her life, and she was entertaining, talented and funny in that arena as well. She was a remarkable woman, and I am a better person for having known her. Please accept my sincere condolences on her loss. She is at peace now. Namaste Joanne! Dawn Lamb

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Carla Foster posted a condolence

Friday, January 21, 2022

Cynthia, Mike and family, and to Joanne's family. Our deepest condolences to the loss of an amazing woman. I know Joanne will be missed greatly. Her wit and humor always seemed to put a brightness on our day whenever we would meet. Carla Foster Charyl Bowman (Foster)

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Ann Jamieson posted a condolence

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Joanne was always very kind to me. I was one of her little sisters in the Saint John High School production of Annie Get Your Gun. My condolences to the family.

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patricia Gallagher posted a condolence

Thursday, January 20, 2022

I didn't know Joanne personally but she took time to call me one time after she heard my choir in the music festival. Her kind words and support meant so much to me and really encouraged me to continue working hard as a music teacher. Her call was a real gift to me and I will always be grateful. (Patricia Gallagher)

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Jill Sinclair posted a condolence

Thursday, January 20, 2022

To all of the Kee and Doyle families we send our sincere sympathy as you say good-bye to Joanne. Our neighbour and wonderful babysitter, Joanne allowed three little girls to make fantastically decorated Christmas cookies with lots of sprinkles and the mess that goes along with it, to watch her do the most fabulous swan dives into the pool with Lovie and who was always willing to take us on an adventure. Joanne holds a special place in our hearts. Sincerely Jill (Bartlett) and Greg Sinclair

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Lauren Whitenect posted a condolence

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Joanne will be so missed. She taught me singing for years. Her passion for music was infectious. She had a big personality that would bring joy everywhere she went. I lived around the corner and would love our classes, she was so talented. Thank you for sharing your heart and your music with us all Joanne.

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Wendy Murphy posted a condolence

Thursday, January 20, 2022

So sorry to hear of Joanne’s passing. We were friends in high school and were in the musicals, choir, and the noon hour impromptu singing sessions in the music room. She was an amazing person. So talented and so full of life. She will be greatly missed.

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Parker Knox posted a condolence

Thursday, January 20, 2022

What a tragedy to hear the news of her passing, but luckily my sister Phyllis, her devoted friend was with her in her final moments! Joanne is fondly remembered by me in my high school years- mostly at Choir, or theatrical productions! She had a great smile and her laughter will resonate with me! Truly happy she followed a life in music, as her passion for performance and love of being with other people in a team were so essential to her! May you R.I.P. now Joanne! Parker Knox, Vancouver, BC.

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Lauren Ascah posted a condolence

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Joanne was my friend back in elementary and junior high school as I lived in Kennebecasis Park but moved to Halifax in grade 8. She was very talented. I met up with her about 30 years ago again. She was very kind and a lovely person. My condolences to her family. RIP Lauren (Stults) Ascah

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The family of Joanne Kee uploaded a photo

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Joanne Kee

1955 - 2022