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    Obituary for Albert William Wallin

    Albert William  Wallin
    Born April 12, 1931 in Yorkton Saskatchewan, and raised by his grandparents in Preeceville during the depression, these early years would be the benchmark for an appreciation for having what you have for which can and should be enough. That through hard work and perseverance great things can be accomplished. It becomes a challenge as to how to sufficiently describe in a few words a life of 86 years, and still somehow indicate the impact those years had on all those around him.
    Bert was a loving husband to his wife Irene, wonderful father to his children Karen (Ron), Lawrence (Pattie), Phyllis (Leo), Roger and Candice (Gord – his daughters Dakota, Victoria & Jessica). A grandfather to Adam (Hailey DeYaegher), Randy and Erin (Matt Lamb) Thompson, Ryan and Ethan Hare; as well as numerous extended family. He was always an interested and concerned member of his family in British Columbia. Bert was a friend to neighbors and members of the communities he had lived, with names too numerous to mention in a spot so confined.
    Bert Wallin was a farmer and a good man in the truest sense of those words. With the exception of a few short years working in a lumber mill in British Columbia, his life was farming. Beginning most humbly with some land a little south of Rama Saskatchewan, his wife Irene, determination and a few chickens and some pigs, farming became his life. The farm and the family soon expanded to include 4 children, grain and a few cattle.
    The early 70s a decision was made to move the family west to Fort Langley, British Columbia where Bert found work in a saw mill. True to a farming nature he managed to buy 5 acres outside Fort Langley and proceeded to gain some chickens a couple of cows and horses. It was a good life but it was not farming so the plan was made to get back to Saskatchewan and back to farming.
    In the spring of 1977, a truck load of cast off dairy cows, a car full of kids and a trailer of family possessions the Wallin family headed east to a place called McKague, Saskatchewan. The house was truly Spartan, the old barn had had a straw roof and dirt floor, a yard full of old machinery and junk yet this became home. With hard work, determination and the support of some truly amazing neighbors, a dairy formed out of what some would call a whole lot less than nothing. This farm would remain a dairy until 2011 at which point a decision was made to wind down operations and continue as a beef cattle operation run by son Roger Wallin to the present day.
    Some would say that life for Bert would come full circle when in 2012 he moved into a house in Canora, Saskatchewan. It was here Bert reconnected with old friends from days of his childhood, farming neighbors and friends from his time spent in the area south of Rama and the area around Buchanan Saskatchewan.
    Bert’s days became filled with coffee with new and old friends, Trips with Phyllis and Leo to Yorkton, dinner excursions with friends to events in old stomping grounds, and fixing up his humble little house that brimmed with the pride he took in fixing things. There were the trips back to the farm and helping Roger with whatever he could, events with the family and of course coffee with the old friends back in the McKague area when the opportunity came up. No less diminished would be the love he had for his companion past Irene, her puppy Suzie. She was Bert’s best friend and companion to the end.
    For those of us who loved Bert, his family, his friends we believe his life was ended too short and our sorrow may dwell on that. Bert would say do not shed many a tear for me as my life was full, my life was good. He would tell us he’d not change a thing as all the he did, all that he accomplished was as it should have been. He would say his greatest achievement was a family who love and are loved by him. He would tell us, I am grateful I did not go out the way we come in, my demise was swift and assured. I’m in God’s hands now.

    Donations may be made to the
    STARS Regina Base
    2640 Airport Road, Regina, Saskatchewan S4W 1A3
    or Buchanan Cemetery Fund or
    Diabetes Association of Saskatchewan or SPCA
    as a token of remembrance

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    908 - 101st St.
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    (306) 873-2124 Barron's Funeral Chapel & Crematorium
    908 - 101st St.
    TISDALE, SK S0E 1T0
    Email: bfcc@sasktel.net
    (306) 873-2124 Barron's Funeral Chapel & Crematorium
    908 - 101st St.
    TISDALE, SK S0E 1T0
    Email: bfcc@sasktel.net
    (306) 873-2124 Barron's Funeral Chapel & Crematorium
    908 - 101st St.
    TISDALE, SK S0E 1T0
    Email: bfcc@sasktel.net