Obituary of Louise PERIGNY

Louise Marie Alma Périgny of Lafleche, SK passed away at St. Joseph Hospital, Gravelbourg, SK on October 18, 2013, with family at her side. Louise was the fourth child of Maurice and Marcelle (nee Dumelie) Périgny. She attended Mathieu School in Lafleche for grades 1-10 and finished high school at the College Mathieu in Gravelbourg. Louise was always talking of her days at the College and the friends she made there and continued to stay in touch with. After graduation, Louise moved to Saskatoon and attended the Kelsey Institute, taking a CNA course. She returned to Assiniboia and worked for a short while at Ross-Payant Centennial Nursing Home. Louise’s love of animals led her to Lakeland College in Vermilion, AB, where she completed the 4 year program for small animal veterinary technician. Louise then worked on a dairy farm at Swift Current and later at the Assiniboia Stock Yards. When she was diagnosed with cancer, Louise was faced with new challenges. She was forced to leave the work she loved at the stock yards and return home to the family farm. Louise also sold her cattle and replaced them with goats and sheep as they were much easier to care for. She found that what the goats and sheep did not eat, the horses will, and the oxen will clean up the rest. It was Louise’s love of her horses, cattle, sheep, goats and two oxen that gave her the determination and courage to battle cancer. Over the past few months she was in and out of the Gravelbourg Hospital, and the last time she came home it was with homecare. The homecare R.N. was very impressed with Louise’s medical knowledge, her interest in various medications and different ways of care, even if it wasn’t related to her own needs. Louise enjoyed the workers that helped her and all that they had in common; one nurse came from a farm with sheep and goats, one had horses and another came from a grain farm. Those were some of the things that Louise liked to talk about. She could not give enough praise to the staff at the Gravelbourg Hospital for the care and kindness that she received from them. Two days before Louise passed away she said, as she said for the past 14 years, that she would get rid of this, go home and do her things in life. As time went by she realized her sickness is not the work or plans of God but the doing of the Devil, to destroy all what God has done, and decided that this would not work with her. She followed all kinds of Catholic programs on TV to learn more of Christ. Because of her cancer and suffering, Louise learned to enjoy the smaller things in life and to take people as they are, not for what or who you wanted them to be. She was a true inspiration to family and friends. Louise is survived by her loving mother Marcelle; brother Charles; brother Denis; sister Colette (Jason) Munroe; nieces and nephews Chantelle, Raymond, Roseanne, Yvette, Colson, Josée, Kirby; great nieces and nephews Dylan, Leslie, Natalie, Maria and Sasha. Predeceased by her father Maurice (2003); brother Roger (2004). Prayers were held on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. and Funeral Mass on Thursday, October 24, 2013, at 2:00 p.m., both at Ste Radegonde Roman Catholic Church, Lafleche, SK. Co-Celebrants were Father Maurice Minne and Father Joseph Strohhofer. Cross bearer was Doreen Fiset. Readers were Lucille Walters and Evelyn Reed. Prayers of the Faithful were shared by Joanne Vinish. Offertory gifts were presented by Colson, Josée and Kirby Munroe. Active pallbearers were Claude Desmarais, Dean Layman, Leah Layman, Corey Ellis, Karen Ellis and Ross Crampton. Interment took place at the Lafleche Roman Catholic Cemetery, Lafleche, SK. Memorial donations in memory of Louise to the Allan Blair Cancer Centre, 4101 Dewdney Ave., Regina, SK S4T 7T1 and Masses were greatly appreciated. Online condolences can be shared at www.pichehawkinsgrondinfuneralchapels.ca. Funeral arrangements entrusted to Piche-Hawkins-Grondin Funeral Chapels, Assiniboia & Gravelbourg.