Obituary of Rose Ann Margaret Weisshaar

With great sadness we announce the passing of our beloved mother, grandma, aunt and friend, Rose Ann Margaret Weisshaar (née Sutherland) of Regina, Saskatchewan, on January 29, 2019, at the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  Rose was born April 16, 1928 in Palmer, Saskatchewan, to Herb and Nell (née Madigan) Sutherland. Rose was raised in Assiniboia and lived her entire married life between Wilcox and Regina, Saskatchewan.

Rose was predeceased by her loving husband of over 50 years, Carl A. Weisshaar Jr. and 9 of her 10 siblings, along with a number of beloved sisters and brothers in law, nieces and nephews.

She is survived by sons Mark, Anthony (Taya), and Paul (Wendy), and daughter Kathy (Paul) and 8 grandchildren - Megan, Matthew, Alex, Easson, Madelyn, Grace, Benjamin and Hayden. She is also survived by her sister Myrtle Lilly, sisters-in-law Mona Sutherland, Helen Sutherland, Shirley Sutherland, Teresa Metz and Roseline Weisshaar and many, many Sutherland and Weisshaar nieces and nephews, and extended family who loved her dearly, wrote and called her regularly and will miss her deeply.

Rose was a very proud grad of the Regina Grey Nuns Hospital School of Nursing and had a short but full career which included working in Banff, Canmore and Red Deer, Alberta and at the Regina Grey Nuns Hospital in Regina, as a public health and surgical nurse and most proudly as an emergency nurse with the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service.   It was that very service that flew Mom to Saskatoon for emergency surgery on January 26.

She was a 50+ year member of St. Martin De Porres Parish in Regina and a CWL member throughout her parish life. Throughout the years, Rose’s many wonderful friends in her Whitmore Park neighbourhood, at the parish and more recently at Wintergreene Estates, remained lovingly important to her.  She loved all who were a constant presence in her life and was enjoying and looking forward to making new friends at Wintergreene Estates.

Mom loved the farm life. Making meals and supporting our dad and her two sons on the family farm in Wilcox were among her greatest joys in life, until well into her 70s.

Throughout her life, Rose lived dedicated to the care and comfort of others.  Mom nursed and cared for our father as a medical advocate and compassionate caregiver, which enabled him to pass in her arms, at their home in Regina, in 2013.

Mom was fittingly flown to Saskatoon on board a Saskatchewan Air Ambulance airplane and we thank Rene and Kevin for treating her as ‘one of their own.’  A very special thanks go to Dr. K. Lyster, Rosella, her nurse and all the other care givers in the MSU unit at Regina Pasqua Hospital, who cared for her until she was flown to Saskatoon and who wanted her back on their ward for her recovery.  We would also like to thank Dr. J. Scozzafava, ICU and stroke neurologist, for providing us with the added time we had with Mom, and to her nurse, Rebecca, for spending the extra time with her to make her comfortable, both at the Royal University of Saskatchewan Hospital ICU. We also cannot thank enough the nurses on 5E at the Regina General Hospital for getting Mom home to us a few times in the past year and the staff at William Booth who did an outstanding job of taking care of Mom this past summer.

We would like to especially thank Dr. S. Liskowich and staff of the Family Medicine Unit in Regina, who treated our mother as the special person she was and to Dr. C. Zagoseski who took wonderful care of both our parents.

Thank you also to all Mom’s many nieces and nephews, who kept in constant contact with her over these many years. To Gretta Lynn and Eldon Ell, words cannot thank you enough for your support, friendship and love you have shown Mom for many years.

We, her children, are the most grateful as she loved, nursed, and supported us through our lives. Family, faith and friends were the cornerstones of her existence and we enjoyed the bounty of her love through that lens.

A Funeral Mass will take place at St. Martin de Porres Roman Catholic Church, 4720 Castle Road, Regina, Saskatchewan on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. Flowers are gratefully declined. If you wish, donations may be made to St. Martin de Porres Parish in her name.