IAN HART BRESLAW

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IAN HART BRESLAW

July 3, 1932 – September, 27, 2023

After a long life filled with love and laughter, Ian Hart Breslaw passed peacefully on September 27, 2023.

He leaves behind his beloved wife, Mee Yien Phang and their only child John & daughter-in-law Josephine and his adored granddaughter Jada.

Also left to morn in Canada are his brother Jerome Breslaw and sister-in-law Mee Yong. Ian is also survived by Mee Yien's siblings in Malaysia, whom he had the pleasure of meeting numerous times on their travels.
Closer to home are his nieces and nephews Stella (Stephen), Susan (Tom), Curtis (Sara), as well as many cousins, great nieces, and nephews from around the world. He was preceded by his parents, Sadie and Harry and his niece, Shelley.

Ian was born July 3, 1932, in Dauphin, Manitoba where he spent his formative years working in the family store. The People's Store. Ian loved hanging out at the family's cottage in Clear Lake during the summer. He moved to Winnipeg in the early 80s to be closer to family and was reunited with the love of his life Mee Yien. A love story like no other. While in Winnipeg, Ian worked to expand the family business along with his brother, Jerome, and his good friend John Wiens, from Morden.

In 2008 Ian and Mee Yien, with an overarching desire to once again to be close to family, moved to Vancouver to start a new chapter in their life.

Ian's memory for most will always lead to the knowledge that he was highly inquisitive, but never nosey. Always wanting to know what you were doing. How you were doing? He simply cared about others. He would go through his Rolodex (and ohhhh what a very large Rolodex he had) and make phone calls for hours during the day just to say hello, see how you were doing, and discuss personal details that most would have forgotten.
Ian truly believed his purpose on earth was to give positive advice and help those around him. He was a kind and caring soul and will be dearly missed.

We will miss him saying "fetch and get", "listen here uncle I says"!

Ian was a huge proponent of naturopathic medicine long before anybody knew what it was all about. He lived every day to the fullest and then some!
Long walks up and down Robson St were the norm.

One of his biggest joys in life was food; but by all who knew him believed it wasn't the actual eating as much as it was the gathering of family and friends that was the 'seasonings' he loved so much.

Funeral services were held on September 29, 2023, at the Capilano View Cemetery in West Vancouver, and in true Ian fashion, it was a beautiful blue-sky day. The blue that his father Harry also loved.

No matter where Ian lived, his home and heart were always in Dauphin, Manitoba.
Should you want to make a donation in his honour please consider the Dauphin Hospital Foundation in his honour or the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg.
Pallbearers were; his son John, brother Jerome, niece Susan, nephew Curtis, cousin Richard and friend Moishe.

For you Ian:
Even if we know it's part of life; we are never ready to say goodbye forever to our family members.
On this day, our hearts are saddened for losing someone so dear to the hearts of so many.
We are not only mourning your death Ian, but also celebrating your life.

May your memory be a blessing.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Oct 07, 2023