HEMMERLING: Norma Catherine (nee MacDonald) Hemmerling of Cando, SK passed into the presence of the Lord at 1:07am on December 28, 2013 at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon, SK. Norma was born on January 9, 1930 at Sea Island, B.C.. She left the "big city" of Vancouver and moved to the Prairies following her marriage to Arnold on June 22, 1957. She was a frontier woman straight out of the "Love Comes Softly" series, always up for the task whether it was driving dad's school bus bale wagon, or mixing up a turpentine concoction for a cow with bloat, or making another batch of chocolate chip cookies complete with the fork marks for "the boys across the road". However, if you really wanted to get Mom excited you simply needed to talk about Heaven. She truly "set her affection on things above and not on earthly things" (Col. 3:2). She was an incredible woman of prayer and touched many lives with her love and example! She was deeply loved and will be dearly missed by her husband of 56 years, Arnold, children Trudy (Gordon) Unger, Sandra Baptiste, James Oxebin (Joyce), Duncan (Debbie) Hemmerling, Milton (Bernadine) Oxebin, Lori (Lloyd) Bargen, Roxanne Oxebin, Norville (Michele) Oxebin, Preston Oxebin; daughter-in-law Arlene Albert; sister - Merle (Ralph) Snell, 39 beloved grandchildren and 10 precious great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her parents Duncan and Ella MacDonald, brother Murray MacDonald and twin sister, Donna Stelting, and by 3 grandchildren, Michael Oxebin, Joshua Bargen, and Colson Bargen. Her Celebration of Life service was held December 31, 2013 with a lot of music and singing and the Gospel being preached just like she wanted! We will see her again in Heaven one day! ____________________________________________________
