Mary Edith June (nee Sayers) 91 years well lived! Born November 23rd, 1923 she joined  many of her loved ones on March 1, 2015. She left us as she lived...  peacefully surrounded by many of her loved ones! She grew up in the Bresaylor district, the well loved youngest daughter of Pauline & Charlie and siblings, Rupert, Harold, Averil (Spence), Vince, Harris, Anna (Bird) & Tom who have all predeceased her. She experienced so much in her many years and reminisced readily to the end about the roaring 20's as a child watching her elder siblings get all dressed up & head out in the car for fun times, the great depression when the hobos would ride the rails and she was taught to give whatever they could to help those less fortunate. How she read voraciously as a child and dreamed of the faraway places she would go to when she graduated Normal School. The war brought many changes... and instead of pursuing her dreams chose to return to teach in the home area where she, herself, had been a pupil. She met her true love, Adrien Cote (predeceased February 8, 1999) whom she married on April 11, 1944.  To her, children were the next best thing to heaven... and in no time at all... they had seven! Joanne Fedderson (predeceased June 23rd, 2014) Calgary, Garry, Saskatoon, Dale Stoesser (Othmar), Carstairs, Alberta, Annette Arnold (Dennis), Mount Forest, Ontario, Ray (Marilyn), Bowden, Alberta, George of Delmas, Saskatchewan and Vicki Dutton (David), Paynton, Saskatchewan. She nurtured and counseled us to the end - guiding but always allowing us to live our own lives. Together she & Adrien worked from dawn to dusk... she would research the best seed for planting, the best cows and bull to improve the herd, the tastiest chickens, the best design for each home, the most suitable trees, shrubs and grass for each yard and together they would do the rest! They transformed many a home; Roy's on the Saskatchewan River, Cotton's and Johnson's (Delmas area) where they raised the children, Hood's (North Battleford area) where she raised asparagus for the Co-Op and the most wonderfully tempered German Shepherds, the cottage on Murray Lake where they fished to their hearts content and finally their most precious Creston, British Columbia acreage where they lived together in such joy for many years... only returning to Saskatchewan each Spring and Fall to the farm they loved so much... for years their best times were driving around looking at the crops! Adrien had fixed her a little shop where she could sell all kinds of treasures... she was in her element! She continued to live there on her own from 1999 to 2009 when she returned to North Battleford to live in her cozy little apartment in Davidson Manor... where, once again, she enjoyed beautiful friendships to the end! She had such an incredible love for music and insisted each of her children took lessons. We all belonged to 4H, played sports - (baseball was her favourite and she often joked that we were a full team!), went to camps, learned to work and had as many experiences & opportunities as she could find for us. Reading was a passion of hers and she encouraged each of us to read and never stop learning! Snow days that were a pleasure to most children were work days for hers as the 'Teacher' took over and we would all learn far more in those hours than we did in a week  at school! She was so incredibly devoted to her children and loved summers with us best... she would be so sad when September would come and we had to go back to school. Once we grew up... the grandchildren filled the void sometimes for weeks on end! She was a cook like no other! She found the most fabulous recipes and what she didn't find she created...we were privileged from childhood to eat the tastiest morsels from appetizers to meals to desserts... we well remember eating Pizza long before most ever knew what Pizza was! Her door was always open to guests and she made feeding them all look effortless! She made Christmas' the most special time and we would all converge on them for days...to this day everyone wonders how we all fit in that house...but it never seemed crowded and they lived by the motto...'There's always room for one more'! Our school lunches & after school treats were mouth watering! Incredibly creative...our homes were always filled with her beautiful creations...from Copper Tole,  to cow horn ornaments, to drift wood, to making afghans, to painting in many mediums, pottery, which she quickly mastered, to cloth collages (amazing) to the coziest fur blankets which she bestowed on everyone so generously. There was no end to her giving...because that is what made her happiest...she lived to give! She cherished every one of her grandchildren and enjoyed a most special relationship with each of them! Cheryl & Randy Fedderson, Kayela Cote, Chelsey Barlow, Jeff, Natasha & Emery Stoesser, Shaun, Shannon & Trevor Arnold, Sheldon & Brennon Cote, Adrien Dillabough and Lara, Heidi & George Dutton. Not surprisingly...each of her great grandchildren (36) enjoyed that special bond as well! Despite her incredible family involvement she nurtured relationships with her many relatives, nieces, nephews, old friends and new friends and valued each and every one! An example to us all - always! She will be missed as she was loved...greatly! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who shared her life!  She was the most grateful person! She loved Nature and believed implicitly in God! She saw the beauty in everything and above all cherished the gift of life. The final line of her will is as poetic as it is profound and is so characteristic of who she was that you can almost hear her voice as you read the words: Live your lives well. There is nothing more precious than life itself. Thank you! Have a party. Goodbye. As it was her final wish, we ask that in lieu of flowers you have a party. A Celebration of her cherished life will be held Monday, March 16th in the Sallows & McDonalds Funeral Chapel, 1271 - 103 St., North Battleford at 10:00 A.M.  Lunch to follow.
