Obituary of Lillian Olga Clara Harding

Ten days after the Armistice that ended the Great War, on November 21, 1918, Mom was born in rural Manitoba. Weighing 20 ounces and many weeks premature she was not expected to live and was kept warm in a box behind the wood stove because her mother was ill and unable to care for her. But Mom proved everyone wrong and lived a long and wonderful life. Mom joined Dad on August 27, 2015 after a brief illness. She died peacefully surrounded by Joe and his wife Linda, with whom Mom lived for the last six years. Mom grew up in Winnipeg in a house full of love and siblings. Her parents raised 12 children (Katie, Jake, Arthur, Betty, Molly, Bill, Ernie, Walter, Albert, Evelyn, and Gordon), whom she all outlived. Like all her friends and siblings who were old enough, Mom enlisted to serve Canada during the Second World War. She was stationed in Brandon and fondly recalled the lifelong friendships she made. After the war Mom worked at Eaton’s in Winnipeg then moved to Kingston and finally Toronto where she met our Dad, Bill Harding. Dad wooed Mom and they were married in 1956. Dad started working for Trans Canada Pipe Lines and they moved throughout Ontario, to Kapuskasing, then Mattice, Weston, and Aurora, before finally moving to Herbert, Saskatchewan in 1969. Mom led a life of service, to her country, her church, her community and her family. Mom was a Sunday School Teacher, ACW member, Diocesan Synod delegate, on countless church committees and cooked at dozens of fowl suppers. She made 50 dozen buns for the last fowl supper she baked for and was often the first to sell out of baking at the Herbert Farmer’s Market. Mom was also the Herbert Figure Skating Club President and President of the Herbert Hospital Auxiliary. She & Dad raised four children who survive her. Mom was a part of very many lives and had friends all over the province and country. Mom worked as a cook at Camp Harding in Cypress Hills Provincial Park for many years and those wishing to make memorial donations may do so to Camp Harding, c/o Diocese of Qu’Appelle attention: Biljana Grujic, Financial Officer, 1501 College Ave Regina, SK S4P 1B8. We will celebrate Mom's life at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 5, 2015 at St Stephen the Martyr Anglican Church in Swift Current. Mom will be laid to rest beside Dad in the Memory Gardens Cemetery. There will be a get-together with family at St Stephen’s hall to follow. Our family, Anna-beth and Brian Zulkoskey, Adam Zulkoskey and Joelle Schaefer, Paula Zulkoskey, Joe and Linda Harding, June and Ron Woelk, Ryan Harding, Amanda Harding and children, David and James Woelk, mourn but are grateful for the life Lillian had and that she was able to spend her last days at home.