HEIDE, JACOB “JAKE” FORMERLY OF ENSIGN, ALBERTA WAS CALLED HOME TO HIS LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST JUNE 17, 2001 AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS.
JAKE WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 25, 1913 AT OSLER, SASKATCHEWAN TO CORNELIUS AND KATHERINE HEIDE. HE ATTENDED WARMAN SCHOOL AND WORKED ON SEVERAL FARMS IN THE AREA. AT THE AGE OF NINETEEN HE ATTENDED BIBLE SCHOOL AT DALMENY, SASKATCHEWAN, THEN MOVED TO ROSEMARY AND IN 1937 MOVED TO THREE HILLS FOR BIBLE SCHOOL. IN 1940 HE MOVED TO VULCAN AND BEGAN WORKING FOR DICK WILLIAMS WHERE HE MET DOROTHY DUGUID AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1941. JAKE CONTINUED TO WORK FOR DICK FOR TWO YEARS WHEN THEY PURCHASED THEIR OWN LAND. TOGETHER THEY WORKED A MIXED FARMING OPERATION. DOROTHY DIED IN 1969 AND JAKE CONTINUED TO WORK HIS FARM FOR ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS. IN 1979 HE MET AND MARRIED LENA DRIEDGER DERKSON AND THEY CONTINUED FARMING UNTIL JAKE’S HEALTH DETERIORATED AND HE MOVED INTO VULCAN EXTENDICARE IN 1999. JAKE AND LENA CELEBRATED THEIR 25 YEARS OF MARRIAGE ON THE 12 TH OF JUNE, 2001.
JAKE LOVED HIS FAMILY ESPECIALLY HIS GRANDCHILDREN. HE HAD A VERY SPECIAL PLACE IN HIS HEART FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE. HIS ONE TRUE PASSION IN LIFE WAS HIS LORD AND SAVIOR. HE KNEW HIS BIBLE AND LIVED FOR THE LORD. JAKE’S COMMITMENT TO HIS FAITH WAS HIS STRENGTH THROUGH MANY DIFFICULT TIMES. JAKE ENJOYED MEETING PEOPLE WITH A FIRM HANDSHAKE. HE ALSO ENJOYED WOODWORKING, MAKING MANY PIECES OF FURNITURE, READING CHRISTIAN LITERATURE, RUG HOOKING AND GARDENING. HE TRAVELED TO HAITI AND JAMAICA WITH SHORT TERM MISSIONS AND TO ALASKA, NEW MEXICO, ONTARIO, NEW YORK, KANSAS, TEXAS AND ILLINOIS.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF LENA OF VULCAN, LOVING FATHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS LINDA (MERLE) VATH OF OYAMA, B.C., AND JUDY (GRAHAM) MILLER OF GRANDE PRAIRIE, TWO SONS DAVID (LUCY) OF CORPUS CHRISTY, TEXAS AND JIM (ELAINE) OF VULCAN, HIS INHERITED CHILDREN MAVIS (ED) WIEBE, ADELLA (PAT) WOURMS AND BARRY (CHARLENE) DERKSON ALL OF EDMONTON, SYLVIA (NELSON) REIMER, VERNA (CLARE) WALL, BEV (ED) FREISEN, WAYNE DERKSON, MELVIN DERKSON ALL OF SASKATOON, TWENTY-SIX GRANDCHILDREN, EIGHTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, A SISTER KAY (ABE) KLASSEN OF SASKATOON, SIX BROTHERS-IN-LAW JIM (DOROTHY) DUGUID OF CASTOR, JOHN DRIEDGER , HENRY (MARTHA) DRIEDGER AND PETE (HELEN) DRIEDGER ALL OF SASKATOON, CORNELIUS DRIEDGER OF ROSETOWN AND REV. DICK (SUSAN) DRIEDGER OF SURREY, B.C., SEVEN SISTERS-IN-LAW ANNIE (LELAND) BROWN OF UNITY, SASKATCHEWAN, MARY (DAVID) GIESBRECT OF WALDHEIM, ANNIE (JAKE) GUNTHER OF WARMAN, NETTY FRIESEN OF SASKATOON, TINA (ED) BUSENITZ OF PEABODY, KANSAS, PEGGY (GEORGE) GOSSEN, OF HEPBURN, SASK, EVA (FRANCIS) FLEMMING OF GOSSEL, KANSAS, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
JAKE WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS FIRST WIFE DOROTHY IN 1969, GRANDDAUGHTER TAMMY HEIDE IN 1989, A BROTHER CORNELIUS, A SISTER HELENA (GEORGE) BROWN, HIS PARENTS AND NEPHEW JOHN BROWN.
CELEBRATION OF LIFE FUNERAL SERVICE SATURDAY JUNE 23, 2001 AT 11:00 A.M. AT VULCAN EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH WITH REV. FRANK HARRIS OFFICIATING.
HONORARY BEARERS WERE PETER THIESSEN, VIC LEBSACK, LEN COWITZ AND STAN MUNTON.
CASKET BEARERS WERE HIS GRANDSONS COLIN REIMER, DARRYL WIEBE, WENDEL WIEBE, MITCHELL WIEBE, WARREN MILLER AND BEN HEIDE.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, TRIBUTES IN JAKE’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO GIDEON INTERNATIONAL 2739-49 ST. S.W. CALGARY, T3E 3X9.
ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. DIRECTORS. PHONE 485-2633. E-MAIL CONDOLENCES THROUGH www.vulcanfuneralhome.ca.