CHRISTINE LOUISE HUDEK (CHAMARD) !

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CHRISTINE LOUISE HUDEK (nee CHAMARD) 1919 - 2013 Peacefully, Christine Louise Hudek (nee Chamard) of Winnipeg, MB and beloved wife of Ed Hudek, passed away on December 8, 2013 at the Victoria General Hospital at the age of 94 years. Christine Louise was born in Saskatoon to Marie McLean and Jean Francois Xavier Chamard. She took her early education at St Joseph's RC parish school in Saskatoon, and Darcy McGee in Montreal, and completed her high school at Nutana Collegiate in Saskatoon in 1938. She enrolled at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan graduating with a BA in May 1941. At Newman Club at Thomas More, she met Edward Hudek in the autumn of 1938 and had their first date in March 1939 at the Ag Students Field Day dinner. They were married in February 1942. She is predeceased by her parents, her sisters Mary and Petronella, her brothers John and Bill and her son Bill. She is survived by her loving husband Ed, and her children, Mary Margaret (Ken), John Edward Francis (Irene), Joan Elizabeth (Dwight), Henry Joseph Peter (Vivian), Gordon (Cleo), Christine Marie and Philip Thomas (Kim), and by nineteen grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Christine was the loving caregiver for her father prior to his death in 1941 and, as a child, proud fourth for bridge with her father and brothers. (In later life her adept card-shuffling was worthy of envy, to the dismay of her Presbyterian mother.) In her youth she played a lot of tennis, skated every noon-hour in winter, was active in the University of Saskatchewan Glee Club and was social director of St. Thomas More College. She was proficient at sketching and painting and her work hung in the family home. After her marriage she moved with her husband to his farm in Hafford, SK in March of 1942 and was soon driving the tractor, the 3 ton truck and hand-milking the farm cows. In Hafford she was secretary of the Catholic Women's League, involved in curling, skating, the Hafford Hospital Aid and community bridge and whist parties. After 1945 winters were spent in Saskatoon where Ed taught at the University, first with her mother and sister, and after 1947, in a house they both built on 13th Street E, living in the basement while the upper floors were completed. Summers were spent on the farm where a new house was built in 1947. In 1956 Ed and Chris moved to Winnipeg with now seven kids, where Ed had been hired to head a new Agriculture Engineering program for the provincial Department of Agriculture. In Winnipeg she was active in Our Lady of Victory Parish and school and at Riverview Community Club. As the mother of eight she was one of many mothers who raised an entire gaggle of children from various homes and schools in the Riverview neighbourhood. In 1984, she moved with Ed to Sudan, Africa where they managed a CIDA project farm at Sim-Sim and she taught sewing to the local women and informed Ed when more snakes had established occupancy in their unit. After 1987 they travelled extensively in Western Europe, to Australia and around Africa and all of the American states as well as spending time with her grandchildren at the cottage they built at Albert Beach where Mom enjoyed swimming and campfires. After selling the home in Riverview, they resided at Osborne on the Red and Dakota House before she was hospitalized at Victoria General in the autumn of 2013. Prayers will be said at the Green Acres Funeral Home, Hwy #1 East at Navin Road, Winnipeg, MB on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. Funeral Mass will be conducted at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, 249 Arnold Ave., Winnipeg, MB on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Interment to follow in the Ste. Solange Cemetery, Hafford, SK at a later date. Christine's family would like to thank the staff at Victoria General Hospital for their patient help with Christine in her last weeks. In lieu of flowers we request that any donations be made to St. Boniface General Hospital Foundation., C1026-409 Taché Ave., Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6. GREEN ACRES Funeral Home and Cemetery Hwy #1 E at Navin Road, Winnipeg, MB (204) 222-3241 Condolences may be sent to www.greenacresfuneralhome.com

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As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Dec 16, 2013