Lois O’Reilly

Published November 27, 2019

Lois O’Reilly

O’REILLY, Arlowa “Lois” (née Presley) – Mrs. Lois O’Reilly, peacefully, at Cornwall Hospice on Monday November 25, 2019 at the age of 83 years; Retired Registered Nurse – Palliative Care, Victorian Order of Nurses.  Beloved wife of the late Gerald O’Reilly.  Loving mother of Tom (Debbie), Stephen (Barbara), the late Daniel (Shelley), and Janet Sinclair (Kent). She will be dearly missed by her grandchildren Michael, Kate, Owen, Alex, Lindsay, and Laura.  Lois was predeceased by her parents Merrill and Bessie (née Barkley) Presley; and by her siblings and their spouses: brothers Charles “Chuck” Presley (Joan), and Patrick (Judy); and sisters Marilyn Ross (James), and Rose Keisker (Joseph).  Lois is resting at the Wilson Funeral Home 822 Pitt Street, Cornwall where visitation will be held on Tuesday December 3 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.  The Mass of the Resurrection with Commendation and Farewell will be celebrated in St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church, 434 Second Street, West, Cornwall on Wednesday December 4, 2019 at 11:00 AM.  Rite of Committal at a later date in Notre Dame Cemetery, Cornwall.  If so desired, contributions in her memory to Hospice Cornwall (www.cornwallhospice.com) or the Leukemia Society of Canada (www.llscanada.org) would be appreciated by the family.  Online messages of condolence may be made in the obituary section of: www.wilsonfuneralhome.ca