On Saturday, there will be a party in Newport, N.S., to honor the person who died
People are saying that a 14-year-old girl who died in the historic flooding in Nova Scotia was a music lover who always saw the good in everything and had a smile on her face.
On the Lindsay Windsor Funeral Home website, there was an obituary for Terri-Lynn Keddy that said she loved the colors pink and purple, rainbows, and her boyfriend.
The obituary said that Terri-Lynn could be found singing, dancing, helping her stepmother in the kitchen, or laughing with her siblings. “The friendship they had will never end.”
Keddy was willing to help anyone, and she planned to start babysitting soon. When she grew up, she wanted to work with kids in some way.
The obituary said, “Terri-Lynn would not want tears of sadness shed for her. Instead, she would want people to remember and celebrate how she lived her life every day.””Create your own rainbow EVERYDAY.”
Keddy was one of four people who went missing on July 22 after their cars were swept away by floodwaters in the Brooklyn area of West Hants Regional Municipality.
Days later, the bodies of a 52-year-old man, Nicholas Holland, and two 6-year-old children, Natalie Harnish and Colton Sisco, were found.
But it took about a week before Keddy’s body was found along the shore of Advocate Harbour. This was about 75 kilometers from where she went missing, across the Minas Basin on the Bay of Fundy.
Family thanks communit
Keddy’s parents, Mark Dill (Jackie Reid) and Natasha Keddy, as well as several of her maternal and paternal grandparents, a sister, stepbrothers, and many other family members and friends, will miss her.
The family thanked the neighborhood for all of its help.
“A huge thank you (endless amounts of them) go out to each and every person involved in helping in anyway, and at anytime, to help people during this storm and to help bring these 4 angels home to be laid to rest,” the obituary said.
“There will never be enough that can be said to show appreciation for everything you have done and do everyday.”
A celebration of life will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. AT in the Brooklyn Fire Hall Civic Centre in Newport, N.S. A reception will held immediately following the service.