Funeral Service: Gerry Copps

funeral service: It is the way she was eulogized Saturday by Father Ron Cote who knew her longer and better than most and in her many roles: wife, mother and grandmother; school advocate; social justice crusader; city council member; "tough gal." Gerry died Oct. 17 at age 91, of what her family describes as "old age and dementia." Cote knows of which he speaks, according to Hamilton Spectator. It was he who presided over the funeral service for Gerry husband, former Hamilton mayor Vic Copps, when he passed 28 years ago. That, it seems, is a good way to begin when facing the impossible task of summing up Gerry Copps, the monarch of Hamilton most notable political dynasty. And it was Cote who was the principal of Bishop Ryan High School when all of the Copps children attended; Mary, Sheila , Brenda and Kevin. It is, and had always been, Gerry church. The priest lovely remembrances of Geraldine Copps were shared in the comfortably full Holy Family Roman Catholic Church on Cannon Street East. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.