Eleanor Petkau passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by loved ones on February 9th, 2015 at age 66, after a seven-month battle with cancer. Eleanor was born in Coaldale, Alberta on July 18, 1948, the second of six children born to Jac and Margaret Janz. Eleanor is survived and will be greatly missed by her high-school sweetheart and husband of 46 years, Samuel Petkau, children, Lincoln, Charis, Amberly (Andrew) and Kenneth, eight grandchildren, three sisters Marjorie, Elvira and Irene, and two brothers Benjamin and Alfred. When she wasn’t working at Hallmark Promotions, Eleanor was busy giving piano lessons, gardening, sewing and doing things for other people.
Arrangements under the direction of Henderson's Funeral Homes & Crematorium Ltd., Chilliwack, British Columbia.
