Marianne Joyce Temple (nee Hinchliff)

She attended school in both Ruthilda and Kelfield and after helping her dad on the farm for a year after graduation, she joined the war effort and headed to Ottawa. After the war, she attended the University of Saskatchewan where she obtained her Bachelor of Household Sciences degree. In 1951 she began her teaching career in Home Economics in Nipawin, SK., where she met her future husband who was working at the Bank of Nova Scotia.

She married Glenn D. Temple in 1953, in Kelfield, SK. They had four children: Douglas, Mary Lee (Mark Simpson), Tanyss (Chuck Bain), and Janice “Anita” Temple (Louise Carbonneau).

She had four grandchildren – Alex Simpson, Robbie Simpson, Connor Simpson and Sarah Temple. She also enjoyed welcoming four great-grandchildren, with another on the way.

She was predeceased by her husband Glenn in 2005 and by daughter Anita in 2008.

Mom was a faithful, devoted Christian. She was very active in her church all her life, especially in the choir, UCW, CGIT and with outreach activities. She was a member of the University Women’s Club, the Legion, a 4-H Leader, she was the chauffeur for the kids, our seamstress for clothing and costumes for dance, the pickler, canner and catsup maker.

She got her love of nature and flowers from her botanist father, who worked with the University of Sask Horticulture Dept, developing species of fruit trees that could survive Sask winters. She loved gardening and flowers, giving and receiving! She celebrated every holiday and season with all the decorations she could muster. She loved being an ambassador at Atria Primrose Chateau and was a friend to everyone she met. She found the humour in every situation and her mind was sharp as a tack until the end.

Because she was a child of the Depression, she learned the value of a dollar, learned to make do, make over, preserve and in our words “MacGyver everything out of nothing”! She was of the original reduce, reuse, recycle generation. Nothing went to waste. Nothing thrown away.

Mom passed away peacefully at Saskatoon City Hospital July 4, 2025, where she received the kindest care and attention. Thank you to the management and staff at Atria Primrose Chateau where mom lived for the past 13 years. They were her second family.

A small Memorial Service for Joyce will be on July 19, 2025, at Atria Primrose Chateau. In lieu of flowers, donations in honour of Joyce made be made to a charity of your choice.