{"id":38407,"date":"2020-11-03T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=38407"},"modified":"2021-11-22T06:49:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T11:49:50","slug":"nicholas-albert-eugene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/03\/nicholas-albert-eugene\/","title":{"rendered":"NICHOLAS, Albert Eugene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Arial\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">April 3, 1921 \u2013 November 2, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Arial\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/anicholas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38408 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/anicholas-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>It is with extreme sadness that we had to say good-bye to Albert \u201cNick\u201d Nicholas. Wawa\u2019s last WWII Veteran, also known as \u201cMr. Smiley\u201d. Albert left this world to finally be back in the arms of his loving wife and soulmate Audrey Penno who passed in August of 2016. Albert was 99 \u00bd years young or 99 plus tax as he would say. He will be greatly missed by his three loving children Barbara (Willy Wilhelm), Murray and Debbie (Ken Ruuska). He is also survived by one sister Evelyn (Harvey Marcoux). Predeceased by Yvonne, Irene, Rose, Armand, Henry, Alfred, and Andrew. He was the proud grandfather of four grandchildren Curtis and Kerri Ruuska, Gary Cox and Crystal Nicholas, eight great grandchildren Alexandra, Trevor, Ashly, \u00a0Kayla, Riley, Samantha, Tristan and Kaitlan and three great great grandchildren Dominic, Aurora and Freya. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Arial\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Albert\u2019s family would like to extend a special thank you to the nurses, doctors, and staff at the Lady Dunn Health Centre for their exceptional care and compassion during this time. A special thank you to Diane Beauvais, Michel Albert and neighbor Steve, the staff of the North of 17 Restaurant, as well as all of Albert\u2019s coffee friends for taking such good care of Albert. A special thank you to Aunt Claire Bussineau for sitting with Dad when I was unable to be here. As well as a thank you to the town of Wawa for their wonderful 99<sup>th<\/sup> birthday wishes during this time of Covid 19. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Arial\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0A celebration of life and interment at Woodland Cemetery will be held in the Spring of 2021.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Memorial donations in memory of Albert made to the Lady Dunn Health Centre or to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #429 would be greatly appreciated by Albert\u2019s family. Cremation has taken place at River\u2019s Edge Cremation Centre in Sault Ste. Marie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Arial\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Arrangements entrusted to Kerry Funeral Home Ltd. Wawa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-OBIT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2847\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-OBIT-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-OBIT-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-OBIT-372x600.jpg 372w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Legion-OBIT.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 3, 1921 \u2013 November 2, 2020 It is with extreme sadness that we had to say good-bye to Albert \u201cNick\u201d Nicholas. Wawa\u2019s last WWII Veteran, also known as \u201cMr. Smiley\u201d. Albert left this world to finally be back in the arms of his loving wife and soulmate Audrey Penno who passed in August of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2663],"tags":[2371,3129,2749,2748,3130],"class_list":["post-38407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-obits","tag-albert-nicholas","tag-april-3","tag-audrey-nicholas","tag-audrey-penno","tag-november-2"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 18:05:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38434,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38407\/revisions\/38434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}