Oxbow SK Obituaries and Funeral Related News
Gordon Melvin Leonard, 1931-2017 - Estevan Mercury
Thursday, December 14, 2017Estevan; granddaughters, Nicole (Greg) Bawden, Pilot Butte and Jennifer (Mike) Brown, Milestone; great grandchildren, Carter and Finley Brown and Emma and Matthew Bawden; sister Phyllis Morrow, Oxbow; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Elda Leonard, Estevan, Donna Voisin, Moose Jaw, Eldeen Farwell, Moose Jaw, Warren (Bev) Pederson, Chase, B.C. and Anne (George) Holman, Regina, and special friend Jan Leonard of Estevan, as well as many nieces and nephews.
A Public Visitation was held on Monday, November 27, 2017 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Hall Funeral Services, Estevan. The Funeral Service was held on Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Paul's United Church, Estevan, with Rev. Jason Richards officiating. Interment followed at Souris Valley Memorial Gardens, after which a luncheon was held in the church auditorium.
If friends so desire, donations in Gordon's memory may be made to the Shriners Hospitals For Children - Canada, 1003 Decarie Boulevard, Montreal, QC, H4A 0A9 or St. Paul's United Church, 1418 - 3rd Street, Estevan, SK, S4A 0S4.
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Saskatchewan police officers attend regimental funeral - Global News Regina
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‘She is a hero’: Husband of slain Fredericton officer bids tearful goodbye
a contingent of first responders from Saskatchewan are among those who traveled to Fredericton were among them.Three officers from the Saskatoon Police Service, two from Moose Jaw, and one from Weyburn are representing the south of the province.Three Regina Police Service members who attended are originally from New Brunswick, including one from Fredericton.
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Stony Plain lines 53 Street with hockey sticks for Broncos' Parker Tobin funeral - Edmonton Journal
Wednesday, March 27, 2019Tobin was originally thought to have survived the Broncos' bus collision last week, which killed 16 people. But a Saskatchewan coroner later confirmed he had been misidentified.estolte@postmedia.comtwitter.com/estoltecgriwkowsky@postmedia.comTwitter.com/CGriwkowsky
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‘Write me soon. Stay safe’: A story of Canada’s opioid crisis, told in letters from prison - The Globe and Mail
Wednesday, March 27, 2019Herd. His mother and sisters called him Manie – little man – because he was the only boy in the family. Story continues below advertisement He was torn away from his home on Saskatchewan's Peepeekisis First Nation to be educated in church-run residential schools, emerging scarred by sexual and physical abuse. For years, he would cross the street to avoid passing a Catholic church. A skilled outdoorsman who liked to fish for pike and hunt deer, beaver, bear and moose, he fell into a pattern of drinking, drug taking and fighting that kept him behind bars for most of his adult life. Pictures in an album show Mr. Daniels as an adult; a tattoo on Ms. Barber's back, below, shows him as a child. Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail Moira Barber, his common-law wife for 13 years, met him when she was dealing drugs in Guelph, Ont., and needed someone to collect money for her. She asked for the hardest, meanest dude in town. But Mr. Daniels had another side, Ms. Barber says. He was a keen artist who sometimes drew tattoos for a living. He loved roughhousing with her grandchildren, rolling around with them gleefully until the long hair that stretched down his back was a tangled mess. Mr. Kell grew up in London, Ont., 90 minutes down the 401 highway from Mr. Daniels. He started using drugs when he was a teenager. Before long, he was dealing cannabis and injecting hard stuff. As he puts it now, he would keep using until he ended up in the back of a police car. Between some 20 incarcerations, he tried over and over to get clean. He suffered several overdoses, coming close to death. In Spencer Kell's dining room, angel and devil portraits drawn by Mr. Daniels hang behind him. Blair Gable Mr. Kell and Mr. Daniels forged their friendship during two stints sharing a cell at Maplehurst. On the range at "the Hurst," they won respect for their experience and toughness. Mr. Daniels had an ugly temper. He could flip on you in a second, Mr. Kell says. But he stuck up for the underdogs, especially the new guys. Mr. Kell looked up to Mr. D...
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