Sadly, our Mom Audrey Mary Warren passed away on January 7^th, 2023, the last of her generation, one week short of her 99^th birthday.

Audrey was born on the family farm in Sturgeon Valley district, SK. Audrey grew up playing hockey, softball, and music. She loved animals of all kinds and could instantly gain their trust. Growing up through the ’30s, she learned many valuable lessons from the master of “making do”, her mother. They saved money from selling farm cream for over a year to buy a piano she could learn to play at home.

Education was important to Mom. High school meant boarding in Shellbrook, and on weekends she often rode her bike back and forth the 20 km to the farm. After attending a teacher’s college in Saskatoon, she taught in a one-room country school where she was not much older than the senior students. One of her most important duties was to be first to school in winter to start the wood stove before students arrived.

Audrey married James L. (Jim) Warren on July 17^th, 1946, after his return from WWII. After a few years in Saskatoon, where they started their family, they settled in Prince Albert where they raised their 3 children on 7^th Street East. Once the children were school-aged, Audrey resumed her career as a teacher/librarian until her retirement. During those years, summers were busy with gardening, golfing, and spending time at the cabin with friends and family. Winters were busy teaching, baking the best cinnamon buns, square dancing, bowling, and playing piano for services at St. George’s Anglican church.

After retirement, Audrey and Jim moved to an apartment in Conaught Village, where they spent many happy years together as “snowbirds” – winters in Nevada and summers at Waskesiu Lake. In her later years, Audrey took up landscape painting, played word search games and crossword puzzles to “keep her mind sharp”, and was a wicked crib player. She could still ride a bicycle well into her 80s.

She loved family gatherings, time at the lake, entertaining, and traveling with Dad. Always putting others ahead of herself, she tried to be the perfect host to all visitors, whether old friends or newly acquainted.

Audrey is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Dianne and Terry Fisher (Ottawa), sons and daughters-in-law Doug and Cynthia Warren (Saskatoon), Steve and Gisele Warren (Saskatoon), seven grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and nine nieces and nephews.

Audrey was predeceased by her husband of 61 years James L Warren, her parents Hubert S. and Ethel M. Smith, brothers and sisters-in-law Sid and Millie Smith, Les and Hazel Smith, in-laws James and Agnes Warren, sister-in-law Pat Stever (Don), and her brother-in-law Bill Warren (Leone).

A Service of Remembrance will be held on  Saturday, August 12^th, 2023 at 2:00 PM at St. Georges Anglican Church (1104 4th Street East, Prince Albert, SK), with a reception to follow. Condolences can be sent to the family on our website at www.mackenziechapel.ca.  Arrangements in care of MacKenzie Chapel & Crematorium.  Brian & Bev Stobbs, Mark Gyoerick – Mel Curle. 306.763.8488.

• Date : 2023-01-07
• Location : Saskatoon, SK