Ryan (Holman), Audrey Jean - With broken hearts, we the family of Audrey Jean Ryan announce her unexpected passing at the Halifax Infirmary on September 25, 2020, at the age of 84. Mom was born in Glenmore, the youngest daughter of Isaac and Mildred (Bates) Holman. Mom loved to tell stories of her childhood; bottle feeding lambs, chasing chickens, dressing her cat like a baby, and helping on the farm. She attended the one room schoolhouse in Glenmore and continued her education at Musquodoboit Rural High School. Mom took great pride to have worked as a telephone operator at the Maritime Tel and Tel office in Middle Musquodoboit. She then married Ivan and raised us on the family farm in Glenmore along with her mom, our Grandma. We enjoyed many family drives in the country, beach trips and picnics, and dancing in the kitchen to the Saturday Night Hoedown. Many summers she worked for Glenmore Industries supervising crews of blueberry pickers.
In 2005, Mom and Dad moved to an apartment on Brandt Lane in Brookfield where she continued to reside after Dad passed in 2007. She loved spending time in the common room chatting with her apartment friends, putting together puzzles and especially Saturday morning coffee parties. She enjoyed many Sunday afternoons on road trip adventures with her sister-in-law, Donna.
Surviving are her children, Sherry Kinslow, Truro; Stephen Ryan, Halifax; Lorraine Ryan and husband, Vincent Kaulback, Middle Stewiacke; Robert Ryan, Glenmore; Jack Ryan and wife, Dawn, Kirkland Lake, Ontario; her grandchildren, Kirk (Brittany Phinney), Blake, Julie (Dylan Roode) and Jessica Kinslow lovingly referred to her as Budgie; she was Grammie to Alisha Brooks (Jason), Rebecca Sharpe (Brant Hunter) and Ethan Sharpe, Mackenzie and Allyson Ryan, Eddie and Jacob Ryan; her great-grandchildren, Xavier Eady, Tucker Roode and Devon Kinslow; Roman and Ayla Brooks; Callum, Rowan and Poppy Hunter; her sisters-in-law, Donna Kent and Irma (Blake) Hiltz; several nieces and nephews. She will be missed by her beloved cat, Dixie.
Besides her parents she was predeceased by her husband, Ivan Ryan, and sister, Pauline Fraser.
Cremation has taken place.
A graveside service will be held Sunday, October 4, at 2 p.m. in Hillside Cemetery, Middle Musquobodoit, Rev. David LeBlanc officiating.
Memorial donations may be made to Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia or a charity of choice.
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