Friday, September 20, 2024
My dear friends Mitch, Chad and family and Tanzi and Chris. What a beautiful memorial you have written. How it has captured the essence of your beautiful wife, mother and grandmother. Our Colleen, because you shared her with many!
Alan and I moved to Regina in 2000 and were in Rochdale Congregation. My very first time out in service was with Colleen and although I was completely intimidated because she was so beautiful, her kindness overwhelmed me and we became fast friends. The first time Mitch and Colleen came for supper, they suggested we renovate our place and that's just what we did. They worked hard with us and Colleen and I built up a sweat that only a rye managed to quench. I have enjoyed many a rye and good conversation with that girl! And I have bought many a gadget based on our mutual conversations! LOL! What a blessing Mitchell you both have been in our life.
I remember Roy Hale telling me to take a call on a certain restaurant because I was hoity toity and me saying, I'm hoity toity, Colleen is hoity toity because she was so beautiful! LOL! But we all knew she wasn't, she was just a genuinely kind and caring person, loved by all who knew her. I loved service with her, trying to break the ice and reach people.
Some people although they do not try to do anything special, in the way they live their lives, they become very special to many. Her humility, her kindness, her elegance, her friendship, her humor that was Colleen and she was special.
Colleen was my dearest friend, I have no words to express the loss I feel, only words to remember the wonderful person that she is. I will carry her advice in my head and my memories with me in my heart. This is a hard loss to bear, but bear it we must. But Jehovah says just a little while and this will all be different. So my dear friends, keep enduring, trust Jehovah and soon our precious Colleen will be back. And we will never lose her again. My prayers are with you. May Jehovah strengthen and comfort you all until there is no more need of tears of sorrow. Much love to you all. Shelley Molander.
