GABRUCH; Olive Gabruch With grateful hearts for the many blessings our Heavenly Father provided to our much loved Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother, Sister, Aunt, neighbor and friend, we, the family of Blanche Olive (Bridle) Gabruch, announce her peaceful passing at her home in Battleford on April 19th, 2012, just eleven days after her 96th birthday on Easter Sunday. Olive was the second child of Charles & Flora Bridle, born at Elbow, Saskatchewan. She spent her teen years in Watrous, helping her parents with her siblings, farm chores, and the renting of cabins at Manitou Beach near Watrous. She then studied at Saskatoon Business College and upon graduation moved to the Battlefords in the early 1940's, taking a secretarial position with the RCMP and later a bookkeeping position at the Bishop Milling Company. It was here that she met her future husband, Dan Gabruch, whom she married at the Battleford United Church on June 24, 1945. Olive was the ultimate "farmer's wife" and in addition to growing a huge garden and cooking three meals a day for the family and the hired men, she sewed, and canned and raised her family of three daughters and one son. Olive never stopped being a bookkeeper, and certainly a portion of Dan's success on the farm must be contributed to the excellent records she kept, and the tight money manager she was!! Olive has been a member of the Highgate Homemakers since her marriage and still met with members on a monthly basis and hosted the March meeting, even though the "Homemakers" Club ceased to exist several years ago. Olive was predeceased by her husband of 63 years, Dan in 2009; her Dad Charles (1955) and her Mother Flora (1983); her sister Pearl (1998); and her brothers Alfred (1988), Walter (2002), and Ross (2007). Also Dan's parents John (1964) and Polly (1963); her brothers-in- law Alex (1989), Pete (1990), Mike (1999), Nick (1999), Walter (2007); her sisters-in-law, Mary Sawarin (2009), Anne Borgeson (2011) and Rose Cheney (2007), and her son-in-law, Len Stolz (2005). Surviving Olive are her four children, eight grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren: Donna (Dexter)Wilde of Spring Coulee, Alberta, and Donna's children: Daniel Bertsch & Chandra Bertsch (Lorne Wohlberg), and grandchildren, Dakota, Dantan & Darby Bertsch, and Ethan, Dylyn & Coltyn Mohr. Pat (Brian) Ford of Regina, and their children Derek (Natasha) Ford and Andrea (Reid) McCauley, Ireland & Teal. Danny (Debbie) Gabruch of Rural Battleford and their children Danya (Rob)Troupe and Mark Gabruch. Karen Gabruch (Neil Curtis) of Meadow Lake and her children Clint (Julie) Mitchell, Wyatt & Ashlyn, and Kyla (Riley) Spak, Reese & Brienne. Also surviving are Olive's brothers Bob (Eileen) Bridle and Tom Bridle; her brother-in-law Joe (Lois) Gabruch; sisters-in-law Noni Gabruch, Therese Gabruch, Jeanne Winters, and Shirley Bridle; and numerous nieces and nephews. The funeral was held on Tuesday, April 24th at Battleford United Church with Rev. Nora Borgeson conducting. Interment took place in the North Battleford City Cemetery. Donations in memory of Olive Gabruch can be made to the Battleford United Church or the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Condolences for the family may be left at Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Kristeen Nylander of Sallows and McDonald - Wilson and Zehner Funeral Home, North Battleford. 445-2418 ____________________________________________________
