Edna Buck
October 18, 1924 - April 5, 2014
As published in the April 21, 2014 World-Spectator
Edna Buck passed away peacefully at the SEICC with family at her side on April 5, 2014.
Edna was born on October 18, 1924 in Bude, Cornwall, England. At the age of four, along with her parents, Charlie and Lily Webber, her two sisters, Joan and Dorothy, the family traveled by boat to Canada, landing in Halifax on April 12, 1929. They then traveled to Regina by train and back to Moosomin and finally to the Pipestone Valley where they settled to farm. There the fourth daughter, Ida, was born, completing the family.
Edna grew up a farm girl and went to school at Woodlands. She loved to milk cows and raise chickens, turkeys and geese and even drove the tractor with the binder to make sheaves and then helped stook. She loved to garden and grow all kinds of flowers.
Edna married the love of her life, Joe Buck, on May 18, 1970. When she moved to the Buck family farm she continued with her big garden and flowers. Edna was a lifetime member of the Moosomin Agricultural Society where she brought home may prizes. She was a member of the Royal Purple.
Edna enjoyed the time when she and Joe traveled to eastern and western Canada to visit relatives.
After Joe passed away on May 14, 1992, Edna stayed on the farm and made several trips to England with her niece Darlene Fehr. After a successful battle with breast cancer, Edna sold the farm in 2003 and moved to Centennial Manor. She still continued with her crafts and flowers, family visits and meals and another trip to England!
After failing health at the end of 2012 with stints in and out of the hospital, Edna could no longer look after herself and her apartment so she moved to the Sunrise Villa in Maryfield where she lived for three months until her passing in Moosomin hospital on Saturday, April 5, 2014.
She was predeceased by her parents Charlie and Lily Webber; her husband Joe Buck; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law Secord Sheane, Bill Young, Fred Switzer, Jim and Betty Buck, Jeffrey and Ruth Buck, Stan and Grace Montgomery, Marjorie Buck and Anne Bradford.
She leaves to mourn her three sisters Joan, Dorothy and Ida; close friends Orville and Ingrid Underhill and families of Chilliwack, B.C., numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. She also leaves to mourn all her relatives and friends in England.
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