Passed peacefully away at the John M. Gray Center on the 27th day of October 2012. Mrs. Dorothy Theresa Mahar of Bird Cove was in her 79th year. She leaves to mourn with fond and loving memories her husband Patrick; sons Stewart(Bernice); Pat(Nancy); Rex(Gwen); Gearld; Tom(Verna); Danny; Boyd; daughters Marina(Victor); Caroline(Bill); Georgina(John); Hazel(Stan); Linda(Blake); Hilda; sisters and brothers Geraldine(Edmond); Eudora(John); Iona(Mose); Rowena(Melvin); dorm(Marie); Marcel(Wavey); twenty grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren and many other special family and friends . She was predeceased by her parents Caroline and Thomas Caines. Visitation was held at the Our Lady of Grace church in Bird Cove, NL from which the funeral mass followed at 2:00pm on the 30th day of October 2012 with Father Biju Anthony officiating. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Kerry M. Fillatre Funeral Homes, St. Anthony and Roddickton, Lee Nippard funeral director