Prolific writer of poetry and prose; talented actor, entertaining storyteller; skilled at sewing, knitting and embroidery; crazy for cooking, Constance Pitts was born in 1925 at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. She is the daughter of Albert Pitts and Winifred Thomas. Christened Olive Constance Pitts after her father's sister, Olive, she simply cannot countenance the name Olive Pitts. She answers only to Constance or Connie.
Connie and her parents move from Llanelli to London, England when she is a young child. She lives her teenage years through the Blitz of the Second World War, once getting off a bus only two stops before it is hit by a bomb.
Following her 18th birthday, Connie joins the W.A.A.F. in 1944, serving first at Gloucester. At the end of the war, she is stationed at Bad Eilsen, Germany. She visits the grave in Neerpelt, Belgium of her boyfriend Jimmy Muir, an RCAF pilot killed by German Flak in September 1944. Connie is a member of the Combined Services Entertainment Unit where she is cast in several plays that tour Occupied Germany. Her stage name is Carole Pitts. She and other cast members also make recordings for Service Radio at Hamburg. Connie attains the rank of sergeant. She is discharged from the W.A.A.F. November 10, 1947. Connie returns to Germany in 1950 as an entertainment officer with the Y.M.C.A. in Lunenburg.
Vic Billedeau, Connie's first cousin, introduces her to his R.C.A.F. colleague, Ken Mosher, in April 1953. Six months after meeting, Ken and Connie are married at St. Luke's Anglican Church, London, England.
Connie is an entrepeneur long before many women work outside the home. She owns and operates Tasty Minit Foods Ltd. and a company she calls CoMicro, one of the first retailers of Sharpe microwave ovens in Manitoba. She also writes a cooking column for the community newspaper called Connie's Kitchen. Cooking is her passion. However, Connie stops cooking and baking when osteoporosis and arthritis make it too difficult to continue. She takes pleasure in watching her favourite cooking shows on TV. A few days before she dies in hospital at Gimli, Manitoba, a winter storm knocks out television reception. The next evening Connie is asked if there is anything she would like. "A cigarette and a good stiff scotch!"
Within hours, Constance Mosher, age 78, succumbs to lung cancer.
Constance leaves to her eight children the gifts of her considerable humour, stories and songs. And one more thing...Connie was always strong and free.
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