VIOLET SZADORSKI

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VIOLET SZADORSKI Peacefully at home, with her brother Michael Shea at her side, sitting in her favourite chair and while talking to Mike, our loving aunt and sister Vi (Violet) Szadorski passed away on Saturday, December 26, 2015. Violet was always known as Vi. You could call her Violet but she would say just call me Vi. Vi was born in Winnipeg on February 4, 1924 to Nicholas Szadorski and Mary Szadorski (nee Stefanicki). She grew up with her brothers and sisters on Gallagher Avenue and attended Cecil Rhodes School and Daniel McIntyre High School. Vi had a love of life and a passion for reading. She would get a book and read for hours in the nearby park. She applied for and took a job at Eaton's. She worked at Eaton's in Winnipeg in accounting and would later be transferred to the head office in Toronto. She loved her apartment in Toronto and living in Toronto. On her holidays she would take the train to visit her sister Anne Rooney and her family in Ottawa. She would come home to Winnipeg to visit her family as well. She loved to travel and had a great love of horses. Her biggest love was her family. She loved her parents, brothers and sisters and her nephews and nieces. She would transfer from Eaton's Head Office in Toronto back to Winnipeg Eaton's. She received her 40-year award from John Craig Eaton personally. She retired from Eaton's in Winnipeg on November 8, 1986. In her retirement years she and her brother Michael looked after each other, travelling around the City and Province, visiting nieces and nephews in Winnipeg and making a trip to Ottawa and California to see family there. Mike would look after and care for Vi and tend to her needs as she got older. Mike respected and loved his sister Vi very deeply. Vi was a very dear, humble, loving, honest, caring, God loving, wonderful sister, lady and such a special aunt. She was our rock and would pass on such great words of wisdom. She will always be in our hearts. Aunt Vi's Words to Live by Her Life Talent is God given, Be Humble Fame is Man given, Be Thankful, Conceit is Self given, Be Careful Vi will be sadly missed by her youngest brother Michael Shea, and many nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews. Vi is survived by her loving and caring brother Michael Shea, and her nieces and nephews which include the following: Gregory and Orisha and Matthew, Candice Braun, and Rick Shea, and Philip Shea, and Kate (nee Rooney) and Bruce Herd, and Dodie (nee Rooney) and Bruce and Rachel, Sarah Byford, and Martha (nee Rooney) and Peter and Emily, Alex Bradburn, and Peter and Shelly Rooney, and Janetta King (nee Shea) and Elizabeth, Charles, Katherine, and Theresa (nee Shea) and Poncho Lemus and family, Lorraine Vendetti (nee Shea) and family. Vi was predeceased by her parents Nicholas Szadorski and Mary Szadorski (nee Stefanicki), her brothers Stan, Peter, and Anthony Shea, and her sisters Anne Rooney (nee Szadorski), Jessie Braun (nee Szadorski). A memorial service will be held on Friday, May 6, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. at Cropo Funeral Chapel, 1442 Main St. Interment of Vi's ashes will be at Holy Ghost Cemetery in Winnipeg Donations may be made to Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba in memory of Violet Szadorski. CROPO FUNERAL CHAPEL 204-586-8044

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on May 04, 2016