It is with great sadness that the family of Judy Green announce her passing in Hospice on October 28, 2023 with her husband and daughter by her side. Judy was a hairdresser by trade but a stay at home Wife, Mom and Grandma by choice.
On June 28th 2021 our beloved mom and “Baba”, Manda Kotarac in her 94th year of life, passed away peacefully in her home at Pioneer Ridge with her devoted and loving children at her side as they have been her whole life.
Manda was born on December 4th, 1927 in Lovinac Lika, Hrvatska. As a young women she moved to Zagreb where she started her career as a post office clerk and bookkeeper until her decision to make her journey to Canada. She landed in Port Arthur, Ontario on June 29th, 1957. Both of her parents were here at the time, her mission was to earn enough money so that she could help pay the way for her parents to return to their homeland and reunite with family. This she accomplished and more, working as a bar maid at the Princess Hotel to start and living on Nugent Street in Port Arthur where she met her husband to be, Branko. They married on December 27th 1958 and so her story begins.