{"id":85480,"date":"2026-07-30T18:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=85480"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:41:03","slug":"kolari-macknight-susanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/kolari-macknight-susanne\/","title":{"rendered":"KOLARI MacKnight, Susanne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Janu\u00adary 10, 1943 – July 19, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Susanne Mack\u00adnight Kolari, 83, of Elliot Lake, Ontario, passed away peace\u00adfully on July 19, 2026, after a short battle with can\u00adcer, and sur\u00adroun\u00added by her fam\u00adily: hus\u00adband Roger Kolari, and daugh\u00adters Kelly-ann Mack\u00adnight (Jamie Lar\u00adkin) and Kari Mack\u00adnight Dear\u00adborn (Paul Dear\u00adborn).<\/p>\n

She was born on Janu\u00adary 10th, 1943, in Lind\u00adsay, Ontario. Eld\u00adest daugh\u00adter of par\u00adents Wil\u00adbert New\u00adton Jam\u00adieson (19121982) and Olivia Marion Jam\u00adieson (nee Skitch, 1914-1990]. Cher\u00adished grand\u00admother to Ben\u00adjamin and Skye Kavcic, and great-grand\u00admother to Kali\u00adlah. Beloved sis\u00adter of Mar\u00adilyn “Mar\u00adney” Gar\u00adwah. Lov\u00ading aunt to Chris Mack\u00adnight, Nat\u00adalie Gar\u00adwah, Rick Mack\u00adnight (1973-2017) and Jen\u00adnifer Mack\u00adnight, and their chil\u00addren. Susanne grew up in Lind\u00adsay, mov\u00ading to nearby Peter\u00adbor\u00adough to attend the Peter\u00adbor\u00adough Civic Hos\u00adpital School of Nurs\u00ading. She became a Registered Nurse in 1964, train\u00ading at both Whitby Psych and the Hos\u00adpital for Sick Chil\u00addren in Toronto dur\u00ading her school\u00ading, before mov\u00ading to Hailey\u00adbury for her first job.<\/p>\n

After stints in Wawa, and Chi\u00adbou\u00adgamau and Hud\u00adson in Que\u00adbec, Susanne settled with her first hus\u00adband and baby daugh\u00adter Kelly-ann, in Elliot Lake, in 1970. Iden\u00adti\u00adfied as a leader early on, Susanne was pro\u00admoted first to super\u00advisor, then to head nurse.<\/p>\n

Her younger daugh\u00adter Kari made her a patient at St Joe’s for the first time, in 1973. While man\u00adaging two small chil\u00addren, she pur\u00adsued her Nurs\u00ading degree at Ryer\u00adson via dis\u00adtance edu\u00adca\u00adtion, also cer\u00adti\u00adfy\u00ading to be a Flight Nurse for patient air trans\u00adports to both Sud\u00adbury and Toronto. She even\u00adtu\u00adally man\u00adaged the pedi\u00adat\u00adric, obstet\u00adrics, and long-term care depart\u00adments at St Joe’s, retir\u00ading in 1998 after a nearly 30-year career. She was recog\u00adnized for her high stand\u00adards and for her devo\u00adtion to train\u00ading the next gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions of carers.<\/p>\n

Susanne loved garden\u00ading, golf\u00ading, curl\u00ading, and relax\u00ading on Man\u00adit\u00adoulin Island or \u00cele d’orl\u00e9ans or PEI with Roger in their trailer. She was an avid volun\u00adteer over the years, espe\u00adcially in swim\u00adming. For years she trav\u00adelled as a top swim\u00adming offi\u00adcial and to the girls’ meets as well. She offi\u00adci\u00adated at the Com\u00admon\u00adwealth Games in Vic\u00adtoria in 1994 – it was a real high\u00adlight for her to par\u00adti\u00adcip\u00adate at the inter\u00adna\u00adtional level.<\/p>\n

She enjoyed trav\u00adel\u00adling and tak\u00ading in all the exper\u00adi\u00adences life had to offer, includ\u00ading dream trips to Europe to see Kari while she was a Rotary exchange stu\u00addent, on cruises around the Carib\u00adbean, to New York to see Bar\u00adbra Streis\u00adand in con\u00adcert, and to Scot\u00adland with her daugh\u00adters and grand\u00addaugh\u00adter to retrace her fam\u00adily’s life there.<\/p>\n

The fam\u00adily would like to thank the staff of both the North\u00adeast Can\u00adcer Centre in Sud\u00adbury and St. Joseph’s Gen\u00aderal Hos\u00adpital in Elliot Lake. The doc\u00adtors, nurses, and PSWS cared for Susanne with ten\u00adder\u00adness, com\u00adpas\u00adsion, and pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adism – pre\u00adcisely the kind of care she showed her patients over her many years as a nurse.<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers, dona\u00adtions can made to St Joseph’s Found\u00ada\u00adtion Elliot Lake, and memor\u00adies can be shared via the Park Lawn web\u00adsite.<\/p>\n

Per Susanne’s wishes, there will be no formal ser\u00advice. She’d like to be remembered and acknow\u00adledged as a hard\u00adwork\u00ading, lov\u00ading mother, grand\u00admother, and wife, a loyal friend, and an esteemed, respec\u00adted col\u00adleague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Janu\u00adary 10, 1943 – July 19, 2026 Susanne Mack\u00adnight Kolari, 83, of Elliot Lake, Ontario, passed away peace\u00adfully on July 19, 2026, after a short battle with can\u00adcer, and sur\u00adroun\u00added by her fam\u00adily: hus\u00adband Roger Kolari, and daugh\u00adters Kelly-ann Mack\u00adnight (Jamie Lar\u00adkin) and Kari Mack\u00adnight Dear\u00adborn (Paul Dear\u00adborn). She was born on Janu\u00adary 10th, 1943, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":85482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2663],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-06 21:18:59","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\/85480","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=85480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85483,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85480\/revisions\/85483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}