Lynza Stephanie Henke

Lynza Stephanie Henke was born March 19, 2009 to Trevor and Lynella Henke. She has two sisters, Janessa and Myrissa, who she loved dearly. Lynza was named by her sister Janessa. Janessa always wanted to name her Lynza Archie Lee but her mother did not agree!

Lynza is survived by her parents, Lynella and Trevor, sisters, Janessa and Myrissa, grandparents, Richard and Darlene Henke, and Mavis and Eric Jackson. Aunts and Uncles, Jelaine (Eldon) Larson; Garth (Delicia) Jackson; Glenda (Travis) Elley; Tristan (Jennifer) Henke, numerous cousins and friends.

Lynza was an amazing piano player and would practice so much she would drive her sisters crazy! She started to learn the piano when she was 7 years old. She loved to play at the care home for seniors and did many hours of volunteer work. She was currently learning tracks and had decided to practice only 15 minutes, multiple times a day so she would not drive her family nuts playing! Lynza also persuaded her dad to take piano lessons along with her, but dad was never as good as Lynza was.

Lynza was an amazing cook. When she went to sign up for Cooking 10 last year and found out it was all breakfast recipes she went to her teacher and asked if she could use the book Knife Drop, and cook every recipe in the book to get credits for cooking 10. Of course, the teacher agreed. Lynza had very few recipes that she hadn’t finished in that book. It was a very common occurrence to come home to a four or five course dinner that was prepared by Lynza, and no mention of it had been made earlier in the day. It was just ready and waiting for us to eat when we got home from work.

Lynza was making fudge in Lollipop Lane from the time that she was 8 years old. She loved to create new flavours and was looking forward to the Interior Provincial Exposition (IPE) where she had a list of over 100 flavours that she was making. She was so determined that she was going to have the 1000 pounds of fudge ready and waiting for IPE. You can visit the IPE this year and try some of those flavours!

Lynza gave her life back to God when she was only 7 years old. Lynza was so settled in reading her Bible every day. She usually had read her Bible before she ever came into the kitchen for breakfast.

Lynza attended Coldstream Elementary until she was in the 6th Grade. Lynza was a student at Heritage Christian school and she loved to do her Christian Studies class. She had a journaling Bible that she used for her Christian studies and that book is full of notes that she took. It will be our most valued item that we have.

Lynza was so faithful in going for her walks each and every day. We would warn her daily of the dangers of bears but she was not worried, she needed her exercise daily.

Lynza was so excited to go to a Christian Convention this summer and had been preparing for what she needed naturally and that her soul could be kept and fed. She wanted to have the fudge for IPE done so that she would be able to have the time off to go to several. She had made a list of what she needed for convention and was prepared naturally and spiritually.

Lynza had also been thinking of what occupation she was interested in. She had just taken the Mini Med Class and that naturally was what she enjoyed. Lynza’s room is full of medical books, and models of the human skeleton, skull, and body, learning how the human body functions. For school in her Careers Class she wanted to interview her Neurologist Dr Abashar to maybe pursue the field of Neurology. Lynza also and more importantly wanted to know her Creator and God better. She spent many hours reading God’s word, and writing what she had read that she would have a better understanding of God’s plan for her life.

Prayer was also so important to her, and in her words to have spent the time to have a proper prayer, and as a young child Lyzna would pray that she was thankful for growing up in a Godly home.

Although we do not understand why Lynza was taken from us at 15 years of age we are very thankful for the years that we had her. We need to learn to not put a question mark where God has put a period.