Lillian (Lindie) Dewores

DEWORES, Lillian (Lindie) born September 8, 1926 – June 9, 2018 aged 91 years.

Lindie was born on a farm near the village of Petrovka to Wassil and Elizabeth Savinkoff (nee Relkoff).  She was the youngest of eight children.  She attended McGillvray School which happen to be across the road.  At lunch time she complained she had to go home and help with chores and never got to play.  As a child she attended functions at Stoney Creek – picnics, Christmas concerts, dances and swam in Stoney Creek.  After finishing high school she had a job at a dentist's office.  The family moved to Kamsack in 1948.  Her next job with the Bank of Montreal was where she made lifelong friends who would periodically get together later in life.  She loved sports: softball, curling, skiing, and bowling.  After a long engagement she married William Dewores.  They went skiing on their honeymoon to Sun Valley, Idaho.  They had two daughters; Patricia and Donna.  When she was very pregnant she learned to drive.  When Bill was farming she drove meals out to the field and kept the books for D.C. Electric.  She used to watch her daughters swimming in Assiniboine River even though she couldn’t swim.  Bill and Lindie went back and forth from the house in Kamsack to the house on the farm.  Eventually moving to the farm in 1975.

      She always had a large garden and many flowers.  Lots of company visited her on the farm.  She was always ready with a meal and to welcome people into her home.  Throughout her life she spent time with her sisters.  They would get together for special occasions or just for coffee. As her sisters got older, she became the driver picking them up on Saturday's for coffee. When Bill was manager at Duck Mountain Ski Hill she worked in the rentals.  On the farm she like to feed the birds and had hummingbird feeders in the yard.  The family travelled down east a few times to Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Toronto and Ottawa, also west to Jasper to ski.  Lindie liked to compose poems for special occasions.  She has written many verses for birthday, anniversaries, the arrival of baby and much more.  In 2010, after Lindie had an unfortunate accident affecting her hand, Bill and Lindie moved to Kamsack.  After Bill passed away she eventually moved to Eaglestone Lodge and then to the Kamsack Nursing Home.  On June 9th 2018, she left us to once again meet her sisters for coffee.  This is a poem she wrote on the passing of her sister, Betty. 

There is no way to measure

The feelings and the memories that we treasure

We know our sisterly love

Will reach the three sisters who are now up above.

Thoughts are the same for another

Our dear, special, beloved brother

To lose each one does make us sad,

Thank the Lord for the closeness, the caring and the

Happy times we’ve had

Till we meet again.

     Lindie is predeceased by her parents Wassil in 1937, and Elizabeth in 1952, husband William in 2012, five sisters; Florence 1981, Annette 2000, Betty in 2001, Nelle 2006, Pauline 2007 and brother Willie in 1939.

                She is loving remembered by her daughters Paticia (Bill) Kryklywicz and Donna (Randy) Dewores, sister Lorie Evans of London, Ont., three granddaughters Jennifer Kryklywicz of Kamsack, Lisa (Keegan) McKay of Regina, Amanda (Stuart) Morgotch of Regina, three great grandsons Andrew Kryklywicz, Curtis Berezowski and Lucas Morgotch, two great granddaughters Layla Morgotch and Emily McKay as well as numerous nieces, nephews and extended family members.

                A gathering of family and friends was held on August 18, 2018 at the Chapel of Wolkowski Funeral Service, Kamsack, SK.  Those so wishing may make memorial donations to Kamsack Nursing Home Auxiliary, as tokens of remembrance. To leave a note of condolences please visiting Wolkowski.ca.

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