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RICHARD DEBLOIS (RICH)
Date of Passing: Feb 03, 2021
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RICHARD DEBLOIS
April 27, 1985 - February 3, 2021
Rich will always be remembered for his laughter and his love of being an Ironworker. He loved to sing along to music and at a social always danced his little two step holding his beer while visiting with everyone. He always had a love for animals. His dogs while growing up and his dogs as an adult were always very special to him. Rich was very artistic as a child, always sketching something or another. As an adult he would venture into tattooing, mostly on himself. He was very sentimental and had a tattoo in memory of his dad and of his two little boys' birthdays and zodiac signs. The rose on his left hand, the words Love Life, Strength and Pain indicating his feelings of life, along with the tattooed ring which symbolized his love for Debbie and that being his hand for her to hold through the good and bad times together. Rich would say he lived ten lives in one. He lived fully and adventurously, leaving us too soon.
Eight years ago he met Debbie in Saskatoon while working there. They fell in love and together they had two beautiful little boys, Damian and Logun. He also developed a very special bond with his stepson Kaileb. He loved them all very much.
He also leaves to mourn his mother Diane, his brother Russell, wife Renata and nephews, Joel, Owen and Reid, along with his grandmother Agathe DeBlois and his aunt Cheryl.
He joins in heaven his dad Roger DeBlois, his uncle Ray DeBlois, his grandfathers, Rosaire DeBlois, Cyprien Morin and his grandmother Lucille Morin.
He will be remembered by his aunts, Agnes Pollard and Marielle Morin, and his uncles, Florent Morin (Gabrielle), Paul-Emile Morin (Patricia), Fabien Morin (Tracey), along with his numerous cousins.
We want to thank all our family and friends for all prayers and support in this time of grief. Thank you to the ICU staff at Royal University Hospital for their kindness and care for Rich.
A Celebration of Life will be announced at a future date due to the COVID-19 restrictions.
If friends so desire, donations may be made to Canadian Mental Health Association, 930 Portage Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3G 0P8.
REMEMBER ME...
Remember me in your heart and
in your thoughts
The memories of the times we loved
The memories of the time we shared.
For if you always think of me,
I will have never gone..
As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Feb 13, 2021
Condolences & Memories (3 entries)
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I am hoping the gentleman in the previous comments reaches out to me. Richard was my love, my life, my dreams, we shared our goals and even our failures together. He’s the first man I ever loved and likely the last one I ever will. There isn’t a day that I don’t miss my dear husband. - Posted by: Debra Orr (Wife) on: Mar 19, 2025
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I lived with Rich for 13 months and spent almost every second of the day with him. I learned a lot of things you cannot learn on the internet or in a book, things you can only learn from a real man. It's not that I wasn't a male that was obvious we all were, but Rich made my life interesting he kept me on my toes. Sometimes he went all out and played April fool jokes. That was a weird day I fell victim to soap on floor, shoes tied together before count, an egg in my boot. This was all in the span of like 4 minutes ahhaha, but the real man lessons never ended to this day I still feel like he's guiding me telling to dummy up or whatever he would of said. Things like telling me I'm shaving my face wrong and showing me and not laughing, or little things like how I make toast wrong. He washed apples with soap for some strange reason, that I didn't understand haha. Really anything and everything the way rich did. To this day I do like 99 percent of the things I do in life the way he would off and its strange to me. I spent so much time with him that when I tell jokes I feel like its him. My sarcasm anything like him and it lives through me whether I like it or not. I didn't know about his passing and now my life is turned a little side ways. To anyone that wants to hear a story about Richard, you can email me or call me during the day I work at 4 am - 12 pm as a chef at a hotel sometimes. I might not want to tell a 10 hour Richard convo, but trust me these stories never run out. Iv heard every bad and good thing that happened to him in his life, I know basically everything about him. I still use his marinade recipe in a 4 star hotel to make ham. The way I grill he taught me, he showed how he made noodles for his family. He said this was at the age of like 9, and had this weird little kid recipe perfected in like 10 days its amazing. Itchy ban noddle recipe, I will one day perfect it, just weird things like that. He still lives through me. sorry for his loss, and if this isn't seen by any family or friends for 10 years i feel horrible, if this is intrusive to anyone's feelings I'm sorry. But I need to pass on his memory if anyone is interested. I can find drawings he made that he spent a lot of time on and I'm not sure where they are in basement full of chaos but if anyone wants to see them I could maybe find them eventually. Trust me I have maybe 12 I'm not sure. If this is something anyone is interested let me know. they might be at my moms I'm not sure but I do have them. Rest in peace brother Rich you will always live on in my heart. and every time I do a kickflip on my skateboard buddy, its because you told me how to put my feet down for some reason it made them work perfectly. If anyone has video or pictures of him skateboarding as a youth, please let me see them it was really important to him and he told me about it all the time. -Levi Zachary Jones -age 35 now , last seen Richard October 2019 never heard from him again. wow my life just changed. email anytime of day, I will respond withing 48 hours and tell you any story you would like to hear, I looked on a calculator and the estimation of spent hours with Rich is very close to the 10 thousand hours mark. sometimes we couldn't be in same room but by 9 pm we always said good night to each at the end of the day and every morning I would smell his delicious cooking. I still make his crepes once in awhile there absolutely perfect in every way. Gordon Ramsey would be proud. honestly just thinking about those crepes is making me mad I cant make them as good as him, I'm gonna figure this out....... - Posted by: levi jones (blood brother.) on: Mar 03, 2024
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I knew Richard throughout his young years I was fortunate to see him grow up to be a good adult. Richard’s father was one of my best friends growing up. Richard and Russel were very close to my two boys Jayson and Daniel Giasson. Richard was full of life, as you could see the joy in his eyes and the way he would treat people. There are no words that could help ease the pain that his family is going through right now. When I heard the tragic news I reminisce by looking at our photo albums of Richard and my boys playing together celebrating birthdays and so many more occasions together and so many more great memories to many to share. We will miss you Richard, it’s time to rest now. Love Gilles, Daniel, Jayson Giasson. - Posted by: Gilles Giasson (Friend ) on: Feb 13, 2021