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HELEN SCOTT
Born: Jun 10, 1927
Date of Passing: Oct 25, 2024
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We are greatly saddened to announce the passing of our beloved mother, Helen Scott, on October 25, 2024.
She was born June 10, 1927, in Bodiaki, Ukraine as Helen Klochek or Olha Klochek. She was the fifth of six children of Fred and Tatiana Klochek. Together the family made the difficult decision to leave their homeland due to political instability. Giving up everything they had, they undertook the arduous journey by ship and rail to establish a new life in Canada when Helen was only two years old. She grew up in Canora, a small town in Saskatchewan where she completed high school and started working part time in the local café.
She then moved to Winnipeg to live with her sister Polly and brother-in-law Bill where she worked as a stenographer for Sun Life and made many lifelong friends. While out with friends, she met a man named Donald Scott at a dance at Winnipeg Beach, fell in love and eventually married him.
Helen and Don had three children, Laurie, Kelly and Doug. She dedicated herself to raising them well, in a well-kept home in Winnipeg. She had a talent for sewing, especially making dresses for herself and her daughter. She had a lifelong love of reading novels right up to her last days in hospital.
She stayed close to her extended family throughout the years, and her kind nature touched the hearts of all the people she met. In return she was well loved not only by her family, but by all those who knew her.
Helen was predeceased by her husband Donald Scott; parents, Fred and Tatiana Klochek; sisters, Nettie Kacaba, Eva Korol, Pauline Hrysenko; brothers, Fred Klocheck Jr., Bill Klochek; nieces, Anne Kolysnik, Mary
Brown, Anna Stelmaschuk, and granddaughter Cassandra Scott. She is survived by her three children, eight grandchildren Riley, Tripper, Jordan, Sterling, Mitchell, Emmett, Emily and Charleston, and one great-grandchild Keenan whom she took great pleasure to meet this summer.
Viewing will be held on Friday, November 8 at 1:00 p.m. at Coutu Funeral Home on Archibald Street, with interment to follow at 2:00 p.m. at St. Boniface Cemetery on Archibald. A memorial service will be announced at a later date.
As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Nov 02, 2024, Nov 02, 2024