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Grieving family wants peace

My name is Judy Giroux. My common-law husband for 31 years was Allen Cardinal. He died on June 18. My granddaughter, Athena, died June 24 and my son, Lawrence, died July 11.

I am asking all the newspapers to quit writing about my family and I. People are telling us that one newspaper reported that we were protesting at the courthouse on Troy Cardinal's court day on July 11.

How can I do that? I can't be in two places at once. My son died on July 11 on Troy's court date. I can't be in two places at once. Ask my doctor or look in the obituaries.

When this happened I was with my granddaughter in Edmonton. She was having an operation on her teeth and had to stay in so Gwen and I and my son, Lawrence, were in the city at the time. My other son was firefighting (at a holding camp) so we really don't know what went on except what people say and the police so please leave us out of it.

We just ask you people to leave us alone. We are grieving and having a hard time with the three people we lost in one month. We don't want to do nothing but get on with our lives.

We want to leave it to the court to deal with Troy, not the family. We are not to be talked about again in the papers or we will be talking to someone who can. I am so lonely and cry each night for the three people I lost. Someone out there knows what I mean.

The Cardinal family says the same thing because Allen is gone. They are still part of our family for my children and grandson. Blood is thicker than water.

So leave us alone. Let us read the paper without our names in it.

Judy Giroux,
Grouard.






Editor's note: The newspaper article Giroux refers to in her letter is not referring to South Peace News, who knows Giroux was not protesting outside the courthouse on the day of Troy Cardinal's court appearance.