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Josepha
(Sophia) Hubenig Beitel
passed away peacefully in her sleep at Extendicare on January 14,
2006, in her
99th year. Sophia was
born in the Killaly district, Saskatchewan
on February 26,
1907.
She moved to Spring
Valley
with her
parents and two sisters in the early part of the last century.
Sophia remained at home until her marriage to Wesley in
1927 and they farmed in the Bayard district for a number of years. Moose Jaw
then become
home until settling in Regina
where they
were members of St. Cecilia’s Roman Catholic Church for 35
years. In 1990 they
retired back to Moose Jaw. Sophia is predeceased by her parents Edward and Caroline,
brother John, sisters Eva and Katherine, and more recently her
husband Wesley, daughter Eileen Anton, sons-in-law Jack McLean and
Earl Paysen, and grandson John Anton.
She leaves to cherish her memory son-in-law Nick Anton;
three daughters: Joyce
Paysen of Moose Jaw, Kathleen
McLean of Calgary
and Myrna (Wayne) Kendall of
Stoughton; sixteen
grandchildren, twenty-two great-grandchildren and seven
great-great-grandchildren. The
Funeral Mass will be celebrated at the Church
of Our Lady
on Thursday January 19, 2006
at 10:00
am. Father Michael Conteh will officiate. Interment will follow
at Sunset
Cemetery. Visitation
Wednesday evening 7 – 9 pm
at the Funeral Home.
Flowers are most gratefully declined.
In living memory of Sophia, a
tree will be planted in Wakamow
Valley
by W.J.Jones & Son Funeral Home.
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