Emma Irene Balogh

Emma Irene Balogh was Born November 24, 1924 a Lethbridge, Alberta to Balasz and Irma Bagu, the eleventh of fourteen children, the first ten from her father’s first wife who died in childbirth. They moved to Kipling in 1925 to the Bekevar District onto the family farm. Emma took grades 1-8 at Saffordia Country School.

Emma loved helping her grandmother with mid-wife duties, enjoyed community gatherings and taught Sunday school.

Emma married Steve Balogh Jr. on October 26, 1943 and they farmed in the Hazel Valley District, spent one winter in Halifax, NS, and moved to Langbank District in 1949 to continue farming, where they were blessed with good friends and neighbours. They adopted their son, Lyle Stephen, in 1955 and their daughter, Sharon Elizabeth, in 1959. Their family was complete.

Emma enjoyed ball, curling, fishing, gardening, cooking, weekends at their Kenosee lake cottage, visiting and listening to the old country gospel hymns, going to church, and going south in the winters of their retirement years. Her children and grandchildren were her greatest joy and her great grandchildren her “cherry on the cake!”

In October, 1987 Emma said goodbye to her husband of 44 years as Steve died of cancer.

Early Friday morning of April 26, 2024 Emma, very peacefully left us to be with her Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, in Gloryland to “walk those streets of gold” forevermore. No more death, no more sorrow, no more dementia.

Emma was predeceased by her parents and siblings and their spouses and her dear husband, Steve.

She leaves behind her son, Lyle (Sharon), Candice (Jay), Maddox, Mylee, Jett; Kari (Mario), Joseph, Sophie; Michelle (Doug), Jordanna, Lily, Grayson, Harper and Hadley and her daughter, Sharon (Dallas), Nathan (Cynthia), Benjamin, Emma and Mathew (Kristin), Addison, Jacob; Jesse (Natasha), Lawson; Sarah (soon to be hubby Jonathan), and many nieces and nephews.

The funeral service for Emma was held on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. in the Parkland Bible Church (the Round Church) in Kipling Saskatchewan with Curtis and Bonnie Szakacs officiating. Interment followed in the Bekevar Presbyterian Cemetery. The funeral service was livestreamed with the link that is posted below.

In lieu of flowers, donations to Kipling LTC Activities are appreciated. Kipling LTC Activities, Box 420, Kipling, Saskatchewan S0G2S0