Obituary of Edward Busse

BUSSE - Edward of Swift Current and formerly from Hallonquist area passed away peacefully with family by his side at Cypress Regional Hospital on December 21, 2023. Ed was born to the late Reynold & Louise Busse on August 7, 1939. Ed fell in love with Myrna (Sabine) & they were married in January 1960. Ed & Myrna lived in the Burnham area for 11 years and then moved to Ed’s family farm at Hallonquist to carry on the family farming tradition. Ed kept very busy farming and raising two children together with Myrna, Cheryl & Kevin. Ed loved farming and it was his life-long passion. Ed was still summer fallowing at 83 years of age. Ed enjoyed looking after his animals including cows, pigs, chickens and the kids’ horses. He was very involved helping his children with their 4-H animals every year. He operated his mobile seed cleaning plant for 33 years. Ed & Myrna enjoyed square dancing at Waldeck and other locations in the area.  Ed & Myrna liked to camp and enjoyed many trips to the mountains and also bus tours. Ed & Myrna moved to Riverview Village Estates in Jan 2022. Myrna didn’t have much time to enjoy it there unfortunately, but Ed settled in and enjoyed visiting with many old friends and many new friends. Ed didn’t think he could ever leave the farm, but he sure liked living at Riverview. Ed is survived by Daughter: Cheryl (Dave) Bulbeck, grandchildren Melissa (Eric ) Kristjansson (Great grandchildren Seth & Colby), Tanya (Blaine) Hardenne (Great grandchildren Connor, Emmett & Keenan);  Son: Kevin (Tammy) Busse, grandchildren Ryan (Wendy) Busse (Great grandchildren Lane, Jesse & Kade), Laura (Tyler) Binner (Great grandchildren Ellie & Logan). Ed is also survived by 2 sisters Carol (Eldon) Dunham, Marilyn (Wayne) Redekopp and one brother Brian Busse.  Ed is also survived by sisters-in-law Donna Lopeter, Janice (Guy) Denton and brothers-in-law Wayne (Barb) Sabine, Keith Sabine. Ed is survived by many nieces, nephews, cousins and many treasured friends. Ed was predeceased by his loving wife of 62 years Myrna, his parents Reynold & Louise Busse, his in-laws Leonard & Myrtle Sabine and his brother-in-law Don Lopeter.  He was so proud and loved spending time with his children and their spouses, his 4 grandchildren and their spouses and his 10 great grandchildren.  Ed will forever be treasured in the hearts of his family and friends. Our family will miss dad’s never-ending love and concern for all of us.  We love you and miss you very much.

A private family graveside service will take place at a later date.

 In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to Parkinson Canada - 4211 Yonge St. Suite #316, Toronto, Ontario M2P-2A9 or online parksinsoncanada.ca or a charity of your choice.

Arrangements are entrusted to Parkside Memorial Funeral Home, Ryan Cappelle & Hayden Cappelle

CARD OF THANKS

The family of Ed Busse wish to extend our deepest thanks to Dr. Bakare, Dr. Ghori and all the doctors in emergency in Swift Current who gave our dad, grandpa & great grandpa exceptional care and thank you to Dr. Zimmerman in Regina, SK.

We would also like to thank all the RN's, LPN's & CCA's at Cypress Regional Hospital & Regina General for your wonderful care and compassion shown to Dad and our family. We have so many names we'd like to list but we would miss someone. Thank you to the paramedics for everything you did for our Dad.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the love we have received. We appreciate all the cards, visits, phone calls, messages, flowers, food & donations made in memory of Ed. Thank you to Pastor Greg for his visits with dad and our family.

Thank you to Ryan & Hayden at Parkside Memorial Funeral Home for thier help and guidance.

- Cheryl & Dave, Kevin & Tammy & families.