Contributions to the tribute of Hilda Franziska Tourney

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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Sorry to hear that Aunt Hilda passed away.Our deepest sympathy goes out to family and all who knew her. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.

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Bob Gubbe posted a condolence

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

My memories of Hilda, Emil and family start at a very young age. Maybe I was 3 or 4 years old, and my mom (Gussie) and i were picked up by Emil in a horse drawn, fully enclosed sleigh, complete with big rugs to ward off the cold winter, supplemented with a small wood-fired stove. It was on the occasion of a death, I think of my maternal grandmother. It would have been winter of 1947, or 48. The warmth provided against the prairie winter was repeated on other family visits, although never again in winter. It was the warmth of kinship and nearly instant affection from my cousins and, of course, from HIlda. The visits, for me at least, stopped in the year I turned 16. Pressures, called life, I guess, conspired to keep me away, though my wife Lois and I very much enjoyed the Tourney reunion in Edmonton in 1994. It's the older generation - brothers and sisters, that hold families together, though in truth, geography plays a part. Whatever it is that drifts us apart, I feel a mix of regret, nostalgia...it equals sorrow at not having known Hilda better, at feeling separation rather than closeness over they years. It's the passing of an era, and we've lost one of the queens! Lois and I extend our condolences to all of my cousins and aunts on this occasion, and to all of those who knew and loved her. Bless us from above, Hilda!

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Marlene Purdue nee Hodel posted a condolence

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

On behalf of the family of John and Hedwig Hodel I send to your family the most heart felt thoughts of condolence. A mothers love is forever with you

In loving memory of

Hilda

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