MELVINA MAXINE EDMONDS

Condolences & Memories (3 entries)

• Thinking of you Marilyn and family as you walk through this valley. Your loved 1 left you all with a beautiful and precious gift. Lots of many amazing and beautiful memories to look back on. She is now busy up in Heaven [baking lots, planting flowers, singing and dancing and painting on top of having a bit of fun playing the slot machines] getting things ready for when the time comes for you all to be reunited. IT is not good-bye but only until we meet again. You are all in my thoughts and prayers. - Posted by: Bonnie Irwin (family friend) on: May 17, 2018

• How can my family and I forget a beautiful, loving and kind soul like Mel... a lady we fondly call our Canadian mom. I came to know her 9 years ago at work. She comes to work, seasonal on call, but we instantly became close friends. She takes care of me especially on busy times at work...just like a mother reminding her daughter not to miss lunch breaks and coffee breaks. Our personalities clicked well instantly. On our first winter in Canada she gave all six of us in the family, special hand-made mittens by her mom and a pair of knitted slippers she personally did for me. She was always thoughtful and caring to advise me and my family how to prepare and what to do in winter time, just because she knows we came from a tropical country and winter is not something we are familiar with. Very motherly indeed! She is a good baker. I have tasted her delicious banana loaf bread, scones, chewy oat cookies and a lot more that she would bring to the office, and make extras for me to bring home for my family. She unselfishly share in the office any new found, tried and tested recipes, and gives us freshly harvested tomatoes from her garden. While she loved to bake for my family, I enjoy cooking for her. Her favorites are: Chinese stir fry noodles, butter garlic shrimps, Chinese spring rolls, sushi, and fresh Vietnamese rolls. We are both adventurous on food! She is truly a kind hearted lady! One day she told me how she wished I was her daughter and with no second thoughts, I willingly agreed to that. But I told her later that I have plenty of baggage - as I have 4 kids and a husband, and she says baggage is always welcome and she'd take them. Her gestures were just always very loving and affectionate. And that's when I got home so excited telling my family that I have met a Canadian lady who just adopted me and all of us. I learned the basics of knitting from her, for which I later on made scarves as a gift for family and friends. She is a very sociable, supportive and fun loving person. I remember that time when my son got in the semi-final round for Canada's Got Talent and we have no family to cheer and watch with us, she and Jim came to support us. They were both holding banners and signs like cheerleaders in a huge crowd. She would always try her best to watch my son's annual concert for a cause after that and had a few times brought along her other family members as well. She would always invite us to watch Christmas concerts at Calvary Temple where she goes for Sunday services with her mom. She made herself present in the many special occasions in my family's life one of which was when me and my family took our oath for Canadian citizenship. I can go on and on with all the beautiful memories I have with her. Our friendship goes beyond friends..it was like a real mother-daughter relationship. Her surprise visits in the last few months, unplanned lunches and coffee time and hours of talk was just not enough. All these wonderful memories will always live in our hearts forever. I will definitely miss her funny stories and hours of fun and laughter. Time with her was always not enough. Our last few gigs together were trips to visit her mom and a place where she showed me a huge water dam..these were always extensions of our time together. Me and my family will sorely miss her, our Canadian mom! I know God called her home because He doesn't want to see His daughter suffering in pain. We will always keep Mel in our thoughts and prayers and may her soul rest in peace. We love you Mel! - Posted by: Myrna (co-worker) on: May 14, 2018

• Met Mel in the Rio Grande Valley through mutual friends and at the card tables and found out we were practically neighbours back home in Manitoba. She was always fun to be around and we enjoyed getting to know her. So sorry. Too young. - Posted by: Denise and David Jacobs (friend) on: May 04, 2018