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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
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Donna lit a candle
Thursday, August 13, 2015
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Remembering you on your upcoming 91st birthday on August 23, 2015. and the passing of Dad 26 years ago on August 16, 1989. We love you both and continue to remember you every day.
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Donna lit a candle
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
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Missing you every day. Thank you for being an inspiration to all of us and especially on being a mother, wife, daughter, friend and sister.
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Chris and Cheryl lit a candle
Monday, June 30, 2014
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Cherished Mom - an inspiration and great role model. We will miss you and you will always be in our hearts.
J
James lit a candle
Monday, June 30, 2014
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Thanks Nana for being a great Nana. I will miss you with all my heart.
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Donna posted a condolence
Monday, June 30, 2014
To talk about Mom, Dad immediately comes to mind. So I will start with how they met and the beginning of their life together, as the two of them had a long, happy marriage.
A girl from Regina. A boy from Waterloo. A war. A dance at an air force base. Romance.
In 1939, Canada joined the British in the war against Germany. Not long after the war began, the young beautiful woman, only 18 years old, from Regina joins the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) without her father's approval. She is a RCAF Private Anne Kellett. She is first stationed in Saskatchewan for basic training and then transferred to a base in Manitoba. I have often thought how scared and alone she must have felt at 18 going off like this - still a teenager - leaving her parents and 8 brothers and sisters. I certainly would have been.
At the same time in a different part of Canada, a handsome young man, Herb Wunder, joins the air force and is stationed in Calgary, Alberta.
Both were far away from home for the first time.
After two years in the air force, the young woman is transferred to a base in Calgary. On a fateful Saturday night, both end up at a dance at the base and the young man would ask the girl to dance. She accepts and they Jitterbug the night away. Despite a war going on, love would blossom between the two air force service personnel.
When the war ended, the young man was not going to let the girl go back home. He proposed and they were married right at the air force base in Calgary. Her father was not happy and he refused to attend the wedding, disliking the thought of his daughter marrying someone with a German last name of Wunder.
When they were discharged from the air force, the newlyweds settled in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, a place the young woman only heard of from her new husband. They lived first with his parents on Willow Street in Waterloo, and then in an apartment on Gildner Street, just behind Wood Street in Kitchener where Katie and Kevin reside.
The young man trained as a stonemason under his father who owned a small construction business. She would work as a secretary at B.F. Goodrich Tire, just a block from their apartment.
It was the start of a long, loving and happy life together -- one that should be the meaning of a loving relationship.
D
Donna posted a condolence
Monday, June 30, 2014
I have so much to thank you for.
As a little girl you taught me what a loving mommy is. You always made me feel safe and deeply loved and what it is to live in a loving home environment.
Thank you for the gift of a beautiful baby brother to love and cherish. You, Dad and God conspired to deliver him on my 10th birthday - April 11, 1964.
As a teenager you taught me forgiveness and what it is to love a child unconditionally. Despite all of my annoying teenage antics, you forgave all of my mistakes, regardless of what they were. You always gave me words of encouragement teaching me that there's nothing I couldn't do if I put my mind to it.
Thank you for teaching what it means to be a loving spouse and relationship. You and Dad always loved each other deeply, right to the end. You have passed on these values to both Chris and I in our relationships with our spouses.
Thank you for fostering my deep faith in God. You taught me to be an eternal optimist, to believe in angels and something good in everything I see. Thank you for teaching me to face life's challenges boldly, to trust in God, and to be an instrument of peace.
You showed me what it is to have a great love for children. When faced with the challenge and experience of losing a baby at 7 months pregnancy you encouraged me to be strong and carry on with hope. When faced with the news of carrying quadruplets, you were by my side, filled with joy, supporting me in my belief that this was a precious gift from God and not a negative experience like so may others thought.
Your love of children made you shine as a loving to all six of your grand-children. Your deep love for them carries on in who they are today as adults, spouses and parents. You were always so proud of all of your family right to the end.
Thank you for giving me the gift of appreciation for classical music, playing cards and good friends.
Thank you for loving all of us unconditionally to the end of your precious, beautiful life.
I will celebrate your life each day in my thoughts, words and actions as you have made me what I AM today. Thank you!
Donna
