Maire (“Momo”) Corinne CONVERY, age 79 yrs, b. 1942 July 22 in Lincoln, United Kingdom, d. 2021 Oct. 03 in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada. Predeceased by her parents Olive and John Convery, her siblings Aidan, Anne and Tony and her nephew John, Momo is survived by her loving son Stephen and daughter-in-law Christine, her two grandsons Ronan and Hunter, her sisters Claire and Rosemary and her brother John, her nephews and nieces including Claire, Sean, Elaine, Anthony, Little Rosie and Tony, numerous great nephews and great nieces including Pearse and Seamus, and her ex-husband Kenneth. A proud Irishwoman who was rather accidentally British, Momo fought her way through adversity from the start. On the eve of Momo’s birth, her mother Olive (“Muddy”) Convery set sail from England to Ireland, accompanied by her children Aidan and Anne, while her husband John remained in England working in the civilian branch of the RAF. Muddy’s goal was to arrive on Irish soil before the birth, but the Nazis had other ideas: the Luftwaffe strafed the deck of her ship, forcing it to turn back to Lincoln, where Momo was born amidst the chaos of an air raid. In her elementary-school years, she indefatigably faced down bullying for being a standout Irish Catholic amidst a sea of typically English Protestant classmates at her schools. At the age of 10, she suffered the loss of her father John Convery, from cancer, leaving her the youngest of the seven children in Muddy’s care. In 1959, when Momo was 17, Muddy took Momo and her siblings on another momentous ocean voyage, this time across the Atlantic to North America, aboard the S.S. Columbia, Creek Line. They settled in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In the mid-1960s, Momo began working at The Globe and Mail newspaper, where she met her future husband, Kenneth Ferance. They wed on St. Patrick’s Day in 1969, and had one child, her beloved surviving son Stephen (“Steve”). She managed to balance the challenges of raising a child and co-ordinating with her husband’s night-shift newspaper schedule, while also rising to the role of executive assistant to the CEO at two of Canada’s most famed mining companies, as well as postings at The Royal Ontario Museum. All the while, Momo attentively cared to her family, which unfortunately for her son Steve meant mandatory toques on any cold days, despite his vigorous protests citing hat-hair or flattened curls as grounds for exemption. A proper breakfast was also essential, which led to the famous spaghetti-tree incident. On one particularly cold Ontario winter morning, when Steve was scheduled to carpool to school with the next-door neighbours, Momo was appalled that Steve had left the house without touching his leftover-spaghetti breakfast. Not at all dissuaded by the icy temperatures, Momo charged out of the house, spaghetti-plate and fork in hand, pursuing Steve across the front yard and through the neighbour’s driveway. Which, unfortunately, had not been properly salted, causing Momo’s feet to slip and causing the plate of spaghetti to fly high, high up into the air, its saucy noodles separating and spreading in flight to droop themselves over tree branches high above the neighbour’s driveway, where they quickly froze and remained for several months until the spring thaw, serving as icy reminders of Momo’s relentless concern for others. All who knew Momo will attest that she was generous to a fault, and always put the needs of others before her own. Momo became the first in her family to attend university. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from The University of Toronto, and served as an inspiration to her son Steve who later graduated from the same university. Following the end of her 25-year marriage, she moved to Vancouver, BC, where she worked as an administrator at the University of British Columbia before retiring to take on her new role as loving grandmother to her two best friends, Ronan and Hunter. Over the last three years of her life, Momo successfully fought breast cancer, and seemed to have beaten it, before it eventually metastasized and returned to claim her life. In lieu of flowers, donations to the B.C. Cancer Foundation are suggested (http://donate.bccancerfoundation.com/goto/mconvery)