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SHARON MOISIUK
On Saturday, October 25, 2025, Sharon Elizabeth Moisiuk, beloved wife, mother, sister and friend, died peacefully after a nearly two-year fight against cancer. She was 73.
Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, the middle child of Elizabeth and Trian Moisiuk, Sharon was instilled with a sense of adventure, a love of learning and a commitment to family and community. She was a tenacious and fun-loving sister to Eunice and brother David.
As a student, Sharon excelled at Wetmore Public School, Central Collegiate (class of 1969), and the University of Saskatchewan, where she completed one year before entering the College of Medicine. In 1975, at the young age of 23, Sharon graduated medical school.
Sharon went on to complete her medical training at Winnipeg's Children's Hospital and Toronto's Sick Kids. Applying her keen sense of adventure to her training, Sharon arranged a three-month elective at the hospital in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas - her first plane trip! Later training saw Sharon flying in small aircraft and snowmobiling across Northern Manitoba and Ontario to provide medical care to remote communities. She received her Paediatric Specialist Certification in 1979.
Finished her training, Sharon worked as a general paediatric and emergency-room physician at the Selkirk Medical Centre from 1980 until 1982, when she joined the Department of Paediatrics at St. Boniface Hospital as a full-time neonatologist, a position she held until her retirement in 2014.
Sharon's sincere and caring disposition meant she was often recognized and fondly greeted in her day-to-day life by families she had cared for in St. Boniface Hospital's outpatient clinics from 1982 to 1987, and through private practice, with partner Dr. Susan Collison, at the Meadowood Medical Centre from 1987 to 1997. Medical students may recall Sharon as a lecturer in the University of Manitoba Department of Paediatrics from 1982 to 2003, as an Assistant Professor of Paediatrics from 2003 to 2014, and as an neonatal resuscitation program (NRP) instructor from 2006 to 2015.
Sharon met Bruce, her loving husband of 48 years, at Central Collegiate in Regina. They were married in a candlelight ceremony on September 17, 1977, and raised three children - Whitney, Mallory and Robert - of whom Sharon was immensely proud. Sharon nurtured and shared her children's many interests and aptitudes, sewing costumes and criss-crossing town and country to attend lessons, recitals and competitions. She consistently sought new opportunities to inspire lifelong learning, fun and a sense of adventure.
As chief planner of family vacations, Sharon ensured her children were competent downhill and cross-country skiers, and that they tried other pursuits, including whitewater rafting and horseback riding. The most fun was had at the family cabin on West Hawk Lake, where Sharon and Bruce shared their love of the outdoors and taught all three kids to canoe, fish and forage for wild edibles.
In her retirement, Sharon turned with vigour to hobbies she had cultivated throughout her life: growing a beautiful garden sanctuary, culinary arts, hosting dinners, playing the piano, sewing and staying in shape by walking, biking and cross-country skiing. She also took up curling and enjoyed a second career working for city and provincial elections in 2019, 2022 and 2023.
Sharon is predeceased by her parents Elizabeth Sylvia Moisiuk and Trian John Moisiuk, and her infant son, Robert Colin Light in 1978.
She will be missed tremendously by her husband, Dr. Robert Bruce Light; children, Whitney (Moein Almasi), Mallory (Geoffrey Gunn) and Robert (Melissa Conn); her siblings, Eunice (Bill Misskey) and David (Susan Moisik); brothers-in-law James Light (Dixie Durling) and Jack Light; nephews, Bennet Misskey (Patty Miller), Dr. Jonathan Misskey (Anna Maslany), Scott Moisik (Carly Jaques) and Ryan Moisik (Dixiana Moisik); as well as by her great-nieces and nephews, and many dear friends.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 8, 2025, at All Saints Church (521 Broadway), with a lunch reception to follow. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Siloam Mission.
As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Nov 01, 2025