MARGARET ELIZABETH DYKMAN (HAARMANS) -

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MARGARET ELIZABETH DYKMAN (nee HAARMANS) 1922 - 2000 Peacefully, on Friday, February 25, 2000, Margaret Dykman, beloved wife of Will, passed away at the Health Sciences Centre at the age of 77 years. Margaret was predeceased by her parents, Antoon and Johanna Haarmans (nee Van End), her brothers, Jan and William Haarmans, and daughter-in-law Janet. She leaves to be remembered dearly by her husband Will; brother Henny; son Jerry (Marty) daughter Joanne Coleman (Ernie) son Tony and grandchildren, James (Jackie), Liz (Tim) and Kate Dykman. Margaret was born in Utrecht, Netherlands and immigrated to Canada with her husband and children in 1957. After raising her family, she enrolled in the University of Manitoba Faculty of Fine Arts in 1975 as a mature student, and completed several years of the degree program. Margaret left a large legacy of some one hundred oils on canvas, numerous ceramics, sculptures, photographs, sketches, and calligraphy. Many of her oil paintings were purchased by appreciative patrons. Margaret and Will liked to travel, having motored to Alaska and Mexico, and visited galleries in Amsterdam, Chicago, New York, Jerusalem and Rome. Besides her art, she enjoyed knitting, sewing, raising canaries, and gatherings with family and friends - the more the merrier. She dearly missed Holland, returning to visit her parents and brothers four times, and lodged many visiting relatives from her native country in return. A devout Catholic, she read up on and discussed her faith in great depth, and joined the Third Order of St. Francis in her seventies, visiting the elderly and housebound, and sponsoring Catholic charities overseas. Something we keep we lose forever, but what we give away, we keep forever. "Faith, hope and charity, the greatest of these is charity." Mass of Christian Burial for Margaret will be celebrated on Tuesday, February 29 at 10:00 a.m. in St. Marys Cathedral, 353 St. Mary Avenue with Rev. Fr. Darrin Gurr presiding. Interment will follow at Assumption Cemetery. As an expression of sympathy, donations in Margarets memory may be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association, 102-310 Broadway Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3C 0S8. Margarets family has entrusted her arrangements to the care of: WOJCIKS FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM 897-4665

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Feb 28, 2000