Louise Marie Cherry

1929 – 2023

Our family is saddened to announce the passing of our mother, Louise, on Wednesday May 10th, at the age of 93, after a courageous battle with cancer. We say goodbye to a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, daughter, aunt, and friend.

Mom didn’t suffer, and other than lapses in memory, it was only in the last few weeks we noticed her health declining. She passed away peacefully in her sleep at her last place of residence, Montgomery Care Home.

Mom was born in 1929 in the small farming town of Viscount, Saskatchewan, the oldest of six kids. She finished top in her grade twelve class with an average of 99, then came to Saskatoon in 1947 to take secretarial training at Saskatoon Business College. She met our dad when she and some friends went for coffee at the Shasta café where dad and a group of boys were showing off for the girls. Mom and dad were married in August of 1950. Ron was born in 52, Joanne in 53, Kathy in 55 and then Susan in 70, the twinkle in dad’s eye and who kept the rest of us, including mom and dad, young.

In the late seventies mom and dad bought a cabin at a small prairie lake outside of Humboldt where we spent many happy hours making memories while having wiener roasts, drinking wine, and playing scrabble.

Mom had a wide circle of friends, both while living at the house in Sutherland that mom and dad bought in 1964, and while living at Golden Key Apartments where she and dad moved in 2001. She was always going somewhere or doing something. From happy hours, to pot lucks, to Persephone Theatre, or just out for lunch with friends, there was always something on her schedule.

Mom had many hobbies: reading, emailing and Facebook, gardening, painting, square dancing, watching curling and Roughrider football, crocheting, and knitting to name a few. In recent years when her eyesight was fading, but she could still crochet without seeing what she was doing, she began making therapy balls for residents both at Primrose Chateau where she lived from 2020 to 2022, and Montgomery Care Home where she lived from 2022 to her death. I think many of us have one or two of those brightly coloured spheres peeking out from under a pillow, or tucked in a drawer.

After graduating from secretarial school, mom began her working career at Saskatchewan Mutual Insurance. Then in later years, she worked at Cherry Agencies, Cuckler Inc., as well as at Apex Concrete, before retiring near the end of the eighties.

Mom was predeceased by her husband, Keith, her parents, Palmere and Harry Carnation, sisters Evelyn Chouinard, and Elsie Heisler and brother Roger Carnation. She is survived by her children, Ron Cherry (Diane); Joanne Jackson (Tom); Kathy Jump (Van); and Susan Layton (Craig); and her grandchildren, Amanda (Kevin); Kevin; Pamela (Bennett); Maureen (Aaron); Scott; Trevor (Carolyn); Leanne (Will); and McKenna, as well as her great-grandchildren, Eleanor, Charlotte, Maddy, Sara, Katie, Donovan, Vivian, Liam, and Serenity. She is also survived by her sisters Irene Robertson, and Beverley Binfet,

and sister-in-law, Gail Carnation.

Mom will also be missed by her many nieces and nephews whom she would coffee with or give words of wisdom to over the phone.

We would like to say thank you to Shantelle and Dorothy, and the staff at Montgomery Care Home for looking after mom this past year and a half. We are very grateful for the gentle and loving care they gave our mother, making her feel like the house was her home.

Memorial donations may be made to the Cancer Foundation of Saskatchewan.

Online at https://cancerfoundationsask.ca/

or mailed to Cancer Foundation of Saskatchewan #200-4545 Parliament Avenue Regina, SK S4W 0G3

Arrangements entrusted to Acadia – McKague’s Funeral Chapel 306.955.1600