Elsie SAGER

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SAGER: Elsie Christina Sager (nee Tawse) – Suddenly on December 15th, 2013 in her 77th year, at Boissevain Health Center. Elsie was born June 23, 1937 in Souris Hospital to the late Adam Tawse (1968) and Catherine Lawson Johnston (1939), and lost her mother at a very young age. She and her sister Dorothy grew up in Carroll and were raised by their grandmother. Elsie attended the Carroll school. She worked at Souris Hospital for a couple of years until she married Floyd Sager on Oct. 29, 1955 in Carroll. Their three daughters were born while they lived on the family farm near Griswold. Elsie joined the workforce again once their daughters were in school, and worked at Kmart and McLeod’s store, and then at Brandon General Hospital as an operating room aide until retirement. They left their farm in 1973 and moved to Brandon. They spent a number of summers in their trailer at Oak Lake, before purchasing their lakeside vacation home in Killarney in 1994. This very pink cabin was called the Pink Flamingo until its coloured changed – then it became the Grey Oaks. They spent many happy summers there, before making it their permanent residence in 1998. Upon retirement, they spent 13 winters in Texas and gathered a large collection of friends there from throughout the continent. Elsie dearly loved cooking fancy dinners for large groups of people and entertaining friends and family. Elsie and Floyd enjoyed travelling together, parties with friends, golfing, and boating around the lake on the Shenanigan. She will be remembered for her great love for her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and was a devoted sister and wife. She is survived and will be deeply missed by her husband of 58 years, Floyd; her three daughters, Debbie Johnson, Myrna (Tom Mead) and their sons Jason (Lesley) Mead and Adam Mead (Tara Howe), and Penny (Ron Foster) and their children Devin (Amy) Foster and Michelle (Kyle Cunnington); also great-grandsons Austin, Logan, Ethan and Lucas Mead; Braden and Liam Mead; and Owen and Aiden Foster; and her sister, Dorothy Grummett. Cremation and a private family gathering were carried out according to Elsie’s wishes, and a celebration of her life will be held at a later date. Arrangements were in the care of Wheatland Funeral Chapel. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Elsie’s memory to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Palliative Care Unit at the Killarney hospital.

As published in Brandon Sun on Dec 23, 2013