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SISTER YVETTE RICARD, SNJM
Born: Jul 20, 1924
Date of Passing: May 15, 2025
Send Flowers to the Family Offer Condolences or MemorySISTER YVETTE RICARD, SNJM
Sister Yvette Ricard left this earthly dwelling for the permanent home promised by Jesus’ own words : ‘ In my Father’s house there are many dwellings; I go to prepare a place for you.’
On May 15, 2025, at Actionmarguerite (St. Boniface) Manitoba Sister Yvette died peacefully surrounded by sisters of her community. She leaves to mourn her passing: her religious family, her brother Denis (Elsie), her sister Thérèse Lechasseur, her sister-in-law, Suzanne, Marie and Dan Federkevic’s family, many nephews and nieces and many friends. She was predeceased by her parents George and Aurore (Neault), her brothers Félix, Armand, Euclid, Joseph, Bernard, Germain, Marcel and her sisters Emma, and Cécile.
Born in Saint-Anne-des-Chênes on July 20, 1924, Yvette is the sixth child in a family of twelve children. Yvette acknowledges that she had a happy childhood, growing up on a farm in Giroux, Manitoba. She attended school in Sainte-Anne-des-Chênes. In grade 11, she was a boarder at the Grey Nuns’ convent in the same town.
On July 24, 1943, Yvette entered the novitiate of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary at Outremont, Quebec and made her first profession of vows on August 23, 1945. She first taught at Mackayville, Québec for three years. Her return to Manitoba opened the door to different places where the Sisters of the Holy Names administered schools from primary grades to grade 12. But Sister Yvette also taught in Kenora and Duluth, Minnesota.
Her studies leading to a teaching certificate were followed by a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of education and a course in Home Economics at the University of Manitoba. She also followed sessions in adult counselling and biblical studies.
Sister Yvette has always been a person of relationships. Welcoming visitors was a great joy for her. She has kept in contact with numerous friends as well as with the members of her family to the end of her life. Meeting former teaching colleagues and former students touched her heart and was most uplifting.
Sister retired in 1987, and wasted no time to volunteer her services at St. Gerard School and to take the responsibility of the kitchen at Résidence Jésus-Marie. Pluri-elles and Entre-Temps were also part of her volunteering.
The family and the members of her religious community thank the staff at Résidence Despins and the personnel of 3DE unit at Actionmarguerite for their care and compassion.
On Friday, May 23, at 1:15 p.m. the eulogy will be followed by the funeral mass at Résidence Despins, 151, rue Despins, St. Boniface. Burial will follow at a later date at St. Boniface Cemetery, Archibald Street, St. Boniface.
As published in Winnipeg Free Press on May 21, 2025
