Lynn Roode
1944 ~ 2021

Mom arrived into this world on October 30, 1944. Growing up, she was never one that had height on her side. She made up for that with the amount of love she carried for the people around her.

Mom decided one beautiful evening that she wanted to go to a dance in Sturgeon Valley, which in effect started a whirlwind romance with a young man named Ken, who became her partner and husband on September 30, 1961. It wasn’t always easy, but they held on to that love for 59 and a half years. Together they welcomed three boys and three girls into their family. Dad always teased Mom about the success of their marriage by saying, “A relationship is 50/50. Fifty percent of the time I am always wrong, and the other fifty percent of the time your mother is always right!”, where mom would roll her eyes and laugh!

The two of them would travel together and visit places like the Dakotas in the United States, British Columbia, Cypress and Drumheller, and to go see their children when one of us had moved away from them. Mom would go camping with dad, us kids, and the grandchildren to Weyakwin Lake. Though we knew she really wasn’t a fan of having to go gather wood and such, her duty was to keep the fire going and stoked. She did it so well, that one summer the stick she used as a fire poker went from the length of a Wizard’s Staff to a measly stick shorter than her arm when our camping season was done.

Mom would never shy away from volunteering. Whether she was fundraising money for us kids to participate in our extra-curricular activities with selling numerous items, tickets, bottle drives, working bingos, coat checks, parking lot with Scouts at the fair, or purchasing tickets to see us, or our children performing with band, music, dance, or theatre… She was always there, in the crowd, or behind the scenes, with pride in her eyes and love in her heart! Mom really believed in us! She rallied behind us with our dreams to become the first girl in Canada to receive the Chief Scout award, starting a business endeavor, becoming an RCMP Officer, becoming a teacher, nurse, or parent of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She loved us all fully, unapologetically, and without judgement… even when at times we really didn’t love ourselves.

Mom was always there. Just a call away when we needed her, sitting in her chair at either the kitchen table or in the living room. We would walk into the house and announce “Hey Mom (or Grandma)! It’s just me” and hear back the usual response, “Okay, take off your shoes and come in!”

Mom took pride in being an Avon Representative for 40+ years, where most of her years included being recognized in maintaining a great customer base and holding the highest status of being in the President’s Club. Any one of our friends or members of the clubs, they knew that they could rely on her donation or gifting of bubble baths and other little trinkets, or a gift basket to raffle off or as a door prize.

Anyone who had the joy of coming and visiting with mom, would walk in and see her collection of salt & pepper shakers. It wasn’t so much a collection to us or her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it was “Nine thousand reasons to NOT tell mom (grandma) that you were bored!” As soon as she heard the word ‘bored’ out of our mouths, she would say “you can wash the salt & pepper shakers if you’re that bored.”

Lynn will be lovingly remembered by her long time love, partner and husband of 59 and a half years, Ken; her children, Dirk, Doris (Bob) Sterling, Dan (Christina), Lorne (Christine), and Kelly; her numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren; brother, Art and his family and Howard’s wife and family; as well as Ken’s siblings and their families. She was met in Heaven by her parents, George and Verlie; step father, Richard; daughter, Laura; grandson, Carver; brother, Howard; sister-in-law, Eunice; brothers-in-law, Clarence, Lawrence, and Mervin; and nieces and nephews and friends.

The Celebration of Lynn’s Life will be held at 2:00 p.m., on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, at Prince Albert Memorial Gardens, in Prince Albert, SK. Dad, and us kids would like to thank the doctors and nurses on the Fifth Floor of the Victoria Union Hospital who were very kind to our family. Dad would appreciation in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association, 104-2301 Avenue C North, Saskatoon, SK, S7L 5Z5, in memory of Lynn. Online condolences may be left at https://www.arbormemorial.ca/en/riverpark/obituaries/georgina-lynn-roode/64541 . Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the care of River Park Funeral Home, (306) 764-2727, Lisa Bos-Atchison, Funeral Director.

• Date : 2021-04-05
• Location : Prince Albert, SK