William “Bill” Jesse Melvin Paramor of Esterhazy passed away on Wednesday, July 8th at the age of 64 years. Bill grew up in Arden, Manitoba as the 7th child of twelve to parents Walter and Velma Paramor. After high school, he became a journeyman welder before eventually pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manitoba. He met his wife, Cynthia “Cindy” Pauls, at university on their first day of orientation, and they married on September 9th, ...

Edgar Erwin “Ed” Ellinger was born on September 6, 1955, in La Tuque, Quebec, and spent his early childhood in Elliot Lake, Ontario. In 1961, his family moved to Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, where he completed his elementary and high school education. He was active in the Boy Scout movement throughout his childhood and into his adult years, which sparked his lifelong love of adventure and the outdoors. After high school, Ed attended the University of Saskatchewan for a year before ...

Cecilia Kathleen Sikora (Kristoff), was born October 31, 1927. She was the 9th of 10 children born to Elizabeth and Andrew Kristoff. In her early years she worked on the family farm and helped her mother take care of the household.  Grandma married our Grandpa Joe Sikora on November 26, 1946 at Kaposvar church. They lived in the Kaposvar Esterhazy district for most of their life. They moved to Tullymet in 1976 and returned to Esterhazy 1987. Over the years they were blessed ...

Edward (Ted) Fraser of Yarbo, Saskatchewan, passed away on June 18, 2026, at Esterhazy St. Anthony’s Hospital at the age of 95 years. Ted was born on April 30, 1931 on the family farm near Yarbo, Saskatchewan. In 1950, he graduated from the School of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. Upon graduation, he returned to the family farm and started the seed business with his father, Robert (Sandy) Fraser. Ted worked construction at the newly established potash mine for a couple ...

After 92 years of a well-lived life, Lorne William Arthur Bradley passed away on June 6, 2026 at the Esterhazy Centennial Special Care Home. He was born on February 4, 1934 to Wilbert and Alice Bradley (Tebb), in their Hazelcliffe farm, on Section 15-18-22 W1.  He was the fourth of seven children born in that home. In 1947, the family moved to the farm Lorne’s grandfather had homesteaded in 1889. Lorne attended the one-room schoolhouse in Hazelcliffe through Grade 10. He shared ...

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Bea Stevenson. She passed away at the Esterhazy hospital on December 13, 2025. Bea was born on May 22, 1932; a daughter to Johanus Jacobus Marinus Roggeveen and Ethel Clare Olson in the Galahad Hospital in Alberta. Bea was the third child of seven children. Bea grew up on a farm about twelve miles southeast of Sedgewick, Alberta. She learned to do chores at an early age; feeding chickens and pigs and milking cows before attending ...

Bea (Beatrice Howie) Huber (Mom) was born in Tantallon, Sask., October 4, 1932.  She was the 3rd oldest of the 9 children born to Cecil and Ellen Howie.  Mom grew up in Tantallon and on the Irvine farm 6 miles west of Tantallon and on the Ormiston farm just northwest of Tantallon. She attended a rural school and the Tantallon school.  When Mom was 17, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis.  She entered Fort San in 1949 and came out in 1952.  During her stay they had to ...

Phillip Otto Duchek was born in Esterhazy, SK. On October 25, 1955. He passed away suddenly at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre on May 26, 2026 at the age of 70. Phillip was predeceased by his loving wife Linda (Bolen), both of his parents Hans and Linda Duchek and his in-laws Alec and Helen Bolen. He is survived by his sons Kyle and Chanse Duchek, his daughter Stephanie (Mark) Briggs and his grandchildren Phyllicia, JR, Luke, Ezra, Bronwynn, Astrid, and Orion. Also left to mourn are his ...

We, the children of Eileen Dorothy (Banga) Drotar, are so very sad to announce her peaceful passing at the Esterhazy hospital on the evening of May 15, 2026. Mom ended her journey with a short hospital stay and her family by her side at the age of 88. She often joked that no matter which way you turn her numbers, she would still be the same age. On February 6,1938 Joe & Julia (Bacsu) Banga welcomed their third child onto the family farm southwest of Stockholm. If you ever watched how ...

A Funeral Service will be held on June, 12, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. from the Hall in Broadview, Saskatchewan.  Interment to follow at Spruce Home Cemetery, Stockholm, Saskatchewan. It is with profound sorrow and much love that we announce the passing of our beloved father and grandfather, Ellis Ramstead.  Ellis passed away peacefully at the age of 82 on Sunday, May 31, 2026. Ellis is survived by his four children: Kevin (Rheanne), Connie (Carey), Brian (Glendolene), and Trevor, and ...