Friday, April 22, 2016
From Leanne, Dons sister, and The Dunne family in Edmonton.
We wish deepest sympathy to all of Dons family at this sad time. Don was a wonderful man. A true, true gentleman. He lived his life with honour and with great devotion and commitment to his family. He worked hard and he had many friendships.
As a brother, he sustained long and generous relationships with all eight of his brothers and sisters throughout his life. Through the years, Don made great effort to return to visit our parents on the farm very frequently, as well as, connecting with all of the rest of this big family wherever we lived. Don believed in family and tried all his life to respect and hold those ties close.
I know that we all will remember him for his humour and his great laugh too. He had a positive attitude to life.
I do recall that he loved to dance and I even remember seeing him dance with our sister, Jean, in the old Temple Gardens dance hall in Moose Jaw as a very young teenager.
I have tremendous memories of Don for which I am profoundly grateful. Dons strong character, his stalwart strength to go on through whatever life brought his way and his belief in the future was so inspiring to me. He had a phrase that I remember:
"You have to put a smile on and you have to deal with what the day delivers."
And that is what he did.
Now, may he be dancing forever in heaven.
