Condolences
Douglas Schmidt
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Mom, today is Sunday February 18, 2024 and would have been your 88th Birthday. Your son's Garry, myself Douglas, Danny, and daughter Barbara all miss you and love you so very much and think of you today.
God Bless You and Dad together eternally!
December 26, 2023
To our Most Beloved Mother in the Universe, Olga Schmidt. Today is December 26, 2023, the 1 year anniversary of your passing away on December 26, 2022.
Me, Garry, Danny and Barbara still cry for you every day. This is the first Christmas Eve dinner, at Garry's place, that we placed 2 empty plates at the table, one each of you Mom and Dad, with your photos on the TV set. We also tried kutia (sweet wheat berry pudding) and kolach sweet bread, to honour our Ukrainian heritage, Mom and Dad, with our turkey dinners. We ate out dinners with sadness, tears and missed you deeply.
This is the first Christmas in 2023 that we were not all together as a complete full family, with both you Mom and Dad having passed away now. We also weren't a complete family when Dad passed away in 2014, but your children still had Christmas with you.
Your children Garry, Douglas, Danny and Barbara cherish and love you forever. We know that you Mom are forever united with Dad in Heaven, eternally with God. As you married Dad for life on earth, so it is in Heaven.
God Bless You Forever Eternally,
Your Loving Children, Garry, Douglas, Danny, and Barbara
Garry Schmidt
July 20, 2023
I love you Mom and miss you.
Your cabbage rolls and green peppers were excellent.
I love the way you took care of us Mom.
Your Loving Son forever Garry Schmidt
It is still very painful, very sorrowful and very sad with a hole left in my heart Mom, since you passed away on December 26, 2022. When I meet God one day, I will tell him I could never have loved someone more in my whole life than you Mom, and God, you sent me the absolute finest and best Mother in the world I could ever have asked for.
You were and will always be my icon, best friend, teacher and life saver who was very intelligent and had more common sense than anyone I knew.
A beautiful, kind, compassionate, wonderful mother who did life perfect, married to Dad (Alex) for 59 years before he passed in 2014, and a wife and homemaker who raised four children.
I would not have traded for the world, the last two years from December 2020 to December 2022 when it was my choice, honour and privilege to temporarily move into your home Mom, and be an extra personal care assistant, as you had mobility problems with severe osteoarthritis in your left knee.
Even though every morning at 8:00 a.m. sharp, professional We Care nurses personal care assistants, arrived for 20 minutes, to put on your pressure hose calf stockings, I thoroughly enjoyed preparing our breakfasts of hard boiled eggs, coffee, toast and jam or peanut butter, yogurt, oatmeal or going to Tim's to pickup breakfast sandwiches and coffee. Likewise, each evening the nurses would come back to remove your pressure stockings before retiring.
2020 - 2022 were the COVID pandemic years and I thoroughly enjoyed with you
Mom, watching Prime Minister Trudeau daily in the mornings, doing his COVID briefings to Canada on CBC television news.
Of course we will never forget watching on TV The Shopping Channel with the charismatic host Carie Olver holding our attention in amazement selling merchandise and later ordering items online.
I very much enjoyed taking you to doctor and dentist appointments in my Mercedes and local pharmacy for all four COVID vaccinations, going for our distilled water and grocery trips to Safeway and Sobeys, or picking up your prescriptions at Shoppers.
I had made up my mind Mom that you were not going into a public care home where fatalities were high among seniors during the COVID pandemic.
It was my honour and privilege to help care for you Mom in your private home of thirty years. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. I wouldn't trade our time together for the world. Nothing is too good for a Mother or Father.
Love eternally Mom until we meet again. Or as you always said, "Don't say Good-bye, say So Long until we meet again.".
Love Always and Eternally,
Your Loving Son, Douglas Schmidt
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