Lillian May

At the age of 88, Lillian Katherine May made her departure from this world on May 4, 2024 at the Regina General Hospital.  She told the doctor “I seen St. Joseph and told him I wasn’t ready for him just yet,” and she gifted us with a few more days bedside with her until she succumbed to the trauma of her heart attack. 

St. Joseph, husband to Mary and protector of Jesus, believed in the average working man, promise of love, loyalty and truth.  These beliefs encompassed grandma’s life, she was a hard worker, had an endless outpour of love for her family and paid close attention to the livelihood of her friends and family.

The cycle of a plant starts from a seed, with the right conditions, nurturing and devotion a plant will sprout and thrive.  This simple principle was the foundation of which grandma raised her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Grandmas’ garden very much mirrored her life in the way she nurtured and cared for all who was involved with her.  She grew her family like she grew her gardens, strong, radiant, bold with elements of tenderness and the odd flaw, cause whose garden doesn’t have a couple of weeds.  The pride she had of her family was the same pride she took in gardening and in more recent years it had kept her mind spirit and body alive!  She had the passion of starting plants from seed and tending to their ever changing needs.  She always had a way of knowing what was needed in order to see them mature into flowers, much like her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.  I imagine grandma’s spirit as a light that travelled to all she loved and survived her.  She continues to live within us to guide and inspire us until the day we are reunited again.

Her memory, spirit, and garden will continue to be cherished by her 4 children, 10 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, her brother and her sister.  Children: Terry (wife, Yvonne) May, Garth May, Cherryl (husband, Dale) Paulsen, and Kevin May.  Grandchildren and great-grandchildren: Cody (wife, Leanne and child Taya) May, Janine (husband, Ryan; children: Everly and Austin) DenBraber, Gordie (fiancé, Lauren Tansem) May, Christopher May, Robert (fiancé, Rochelle Currie) May, Kristy (husband, Shawn; children: William and Madelynn) Boardman.  Jamie (girlfriend, Debra; children: Katrina, Elizabeth and Ryder) Paulsen.  Melissa (husband, Riley; children: Sawyer and Maverick) Straub, Robert (girlfriend Amii Morrison) Balcom, Courtney (husband, Tyler, and child Everett) Garcia.  Sister Violet (husband, Sam) Dzurka, brother Fred Shopa, and several nieces and nephews.  Predeceased by her husband Gordon May in 1987.  Brothers, Alex Shopa, Bill Shopa, Tom Shopa, and her sisters Olga Kruszelnicki, Pearl Fjaagesund and Rose Shopa.

Arrangements entrusted to Warren’s Funeral Home.  For further information please call 1-306-773-8831 or 1-800-267-6606, or visit the website www.warrensfuneralhome.com and express your sympathy to family members on the tribute wall.

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