MACKSOOD, Julie Kathryn - Of Flint, age 45, passed away at home on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at her residence. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11AM Monday, March 20, 2006 at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 1227 East Bristol Road in Burton, Father William Lugger officiating. Burial in New Calvary Catholic Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, 301 E. Liberty, Suite 400, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 or Durant Tuuri Mott School (Julie Macksood Fund for Children). Julie was born on October 7, 1960, the first-born child of Leo and Diane (St. Germain) Macksood. She was a graduate of Luke M. Powers High School in 1978, where she enjoyed 4 years as a cheerleader and a lead role in the senior class play "Fiddler on the Roof." She was a graduate of St. Joseph Hospital School of Radiology, where she worked as an X-ray tech. She then went on to Providence Hospital School of Sonography and graduated as an ultrasound tech. In 1985, her career was interrupted when she suffered a severe closed head injury due to an auto accident. After 3 months in a coma, 5 years of intensive rehab and therapy, a deep faith in God and quiet determination, she managed to get out of a wheelchair, progress to a walker, then a cane and overcome many obstacles. Unable to physically return to her previous work, she went back to college painstakingly taking one class at a time until in 1994, when she proudly graduated from Mott Community College and U-M Flint with a degree in Social Work. Having learned sign language along the way, she secured a position at Durant Tuuri Mott School working with hearing impaired and handicapped children. Here is where she felt she was meant to be, she loved to work with the children, and the children loved her. Her greatest pleasure was spending time with her family and many friends. She loved music and dancing, life and God. She was an inspiration to us all. Julie is survived and leaves to cherish the memory of the beautiful person she was: her parents; her brother, Joseph and wife Jacqueline Macksood of Fenton; her sister, Janet Macksood of Flint; her two beloved nieces and goddaughters, Elizabeth and Natalie. Also, many loving aunts and uncles, Mary (Macksood) and Joe Conroy, Louise Macksood, Janice (Macksood) and Richard Whittleton, Betty (Macksood) and Richard Ramsdell, Tom and Linda Macksood and Michael St. Germain. She also leaves 24 first cousins; many dear other relatives and many special friends, especially Debbie Lengyl and Charlie Odykirk. She was preceded in death by her infant sisters and brothers, Jane Mary; twins, John and Regina and Abraham; her grandparents, Louis and Nimrie Macksood, Reginald and Doris St. Germain, Aunt Catherine and Uncle Donald Roda.
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