Mr. Dennis Lloyd Tindall

With deeply saddened hearts we announce the passing of our most precious husband, father, and grandfather; Dennis Lloyd Tindall. Dennis passed in the early morning of August 27, 2010 at 76 years of age, with a number of his family at his bedside. He was diagnosed with a brain tumour in mid April, 2010.

Dennis was born on June 28, 1934 to his parents George and Edith who immigrated to Canada and settled in the Wainwright, Alberta area.

Dennis’s nine siblings are George (Florence Bacon), Florence (Alfred Bacon), Phyllis (Jim Laycock), Les (Betty Funk), Alice (Bill Daniels), Ben (Gladys Denoncourt), Jim (Eldred Fenton), Doreen (Rudy Antonio), and Olive (Norton Metcalfe). He is survived by his younger sister Olive.

Dennis and Ada Prickett were married on June 2, 1955 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. They had four children; Donald, Debbie (Terry), Gregory (Pam), and Sandra (Norm).

Donald’s children are Sarah (Rob) and Jessica (Jermaine). Sarah’s children are Brandyn, Josh, Ty, Brooke and Victoria. Jessica’s are Melanie and “one on the way”.

Debbie’s children are Clayton and Kelley (Alex). Kelley’s children are Sadie and Mario who was born on Gramma Debbie’s birthday in July 2010 and unfortunately never had the opportunity to meet his Great Grampa.

Greg’s children are Shyler and Mikala.

Sandi’s children are Kennedy and Kolby.

Dennis also had many loved and treasured nephews and nieces.

His early schooling took place in the Fabyan and Passchendale district near Wainright, Alberta. He went on to S.A.I.T. to become a journeyman carpenter. From there he went to Saskatoon and worked for W.C. Wells becoming a construction superintendent and built many commercial buildings, including churches, schools, banks, University of Saskatchewan buildings, as well as residences. Coincidentally a number of these buildings were constructed out of Tyndall Stone.

After moving to Edmonton Dennis formed a partnership with Russ Blackwood with whom he did gunite work (air placed concrete) and constructed many town swimming pools during Alberta’s and Saskatchewan’s Centennial year, as well as numerous residential high end gunite pools. Dennis was instrumental in helping to form Canspa (Canadian Swimming Pool Association) and belonged to the Master Pool Guild, an international affiliation.

After retiring many times from various endeavours, the family moved to Kelowna where he discovered that he could not stay in retirement. He continued to work at a number of different jobs right into this year, even finishing a bathroom remodeling in his home the morning he was to go in for his brain surgery! He was always MR. FIX IT and could never do enough for his family and neighbours.

Dennis was so proud of and enjoyed his family so very much that every weekend he wanted them to come over, and said he was in withdrawal if they did not show up. He was always so good with the young ones; reading or singing to them or telling them his own special stories, and although it was sometimes nerve-racking for the young parents to let him know there was another baby on the way, there were never enough babies!

To be involved in community work and related activities was Dennis’s passion. He was also very social and has treasured friends remaining from virtually every community he has lived in. Always on the go, he could not sit still except to watch his hockey or football games. His favourite getaway each year was to go hunting. When his older kids were young they would say to him “We don’t want you to go, but bring back the liver”, which he did (in a beer box). Dennis had decided last fall would be his last hunting trip and took it with a nephew, who said that was the trip of his lifetime. Little did Dennis know it wasn’t his decision to make regarding the last trip. Dennis was also passionate about fishing and even taught Ada how, but was sorry for that as she could out fish him any day of the week, unless it was trolling, then she let him win!

The family would like to sincerely thank all those who have been so very caring and helpful and a special thanks to the wonderful staff at The Hospice House – we are so lucky to have such an amazing facility in Kelowna. Also to Andrea and Dr. Mark Clark – without your compassion and sense of humour it would have been a much harder journey for all of us.

In lieu of flowers the family would sincerely appreciate a donation to either the Central Okanagan Hospice Association (COHA) or the BC Cancer Foundation where it will be directed towards Brain Cancer Research.