HULDA (HILDA) HJARTARSON (BITTNER)

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HULDA (HILDA) HJARTARSON (nee BITTNER) Peacefully on Friday, June 8, 2001, at the Ashern Personal Care Home, Hilda Hjartarson passed away at the age of 90 years. Hilda was born August 14, 1910 in Winnipeg. She attended grade school there until her parents moved to the Bayton District to farm. Hilda left home at a young age to work at the University of Manitoba in the laundry department. Before the age of 20, she was the head of the department. She moved to Steep Rock in 1930 and worked at the confectionery and pool room for the Tiemroth family and was an assistant postmaster. On September 26, 1946, she married Eric Hjartarson and they moved to Peonan Point. They lived there until they bought a house in Steep Rock in 1959 and then commuted back and forth to their ranch. After they had the home in Steep Rock, she would stay most every spring and fall during break-up and freeze-up in Hilbre helping her parents. She enjoyed being involved with the United Church Women and community functions, always helping out, baking and doing what needed to be done. She enjoyed gardening, cooking, knitting, crocheting and various types of needlework, visiting relatives and friends and travelling with her husband, Eric. Due to failing health, she went to live at the Ashern Personal Care Home in February of 1998. Hilda leaves to mourn, her loving husband Eric of 54 years; her sisters, Elsie Fenning, Mathilda Meisner and Evelyn (Art) Weigelt; her brothers, Edward (Edna) Bittner, Harold (Mary) Bittner and Arthur (Marjorie) Bittner; sisters-in-law, Hilda Bittner and Christine Bittner; brother-in-law, Art Springer; also many nieces, nephews, friends and cousins in the U.S. and Canada, her special friends, Fran Baker, Muriel Clearwater and Genieve King. Hilda was predeceased by her parents, Bernard and Ida Bittner; two sisters, Lydia Dillabough and Alma Springer; three brothers, Albert, Robert (Bob) and Ewald (Walter) Bittner; two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Bittner and Ruth Bittner; four brothers-in-law, John Dillabough, Richard Palm, Arnold Fenning and William (Bill) Meisner. Funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 12 in the Steep Rock Community Hall with Rev. Donna J. Smalley officiating. Interment to follow in the Faulkner Cemetery. Special thanks to the active pallbearers, Ronald Bittner, Jason Bittner, Jeffrey Bittner, Philip Hjartarson, Leroy Meisner and Gerald Wowchuk. Everyone in attendance can consider themselves honorary pallbearers. Friends and relatives may pay their respects from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Monday, June 11 at the Arnason Funeral Home in Ashern. Viewing will also be held at the hall one hour prior to the service. Special thanks to the doctors, nurses and the entire staff at the Ashern Personal Care Home for the exceptional care they gave to Hilda and also for the kindness and courtesy extended to Eric. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Hildas memory to the Lakeshore Hospital Guild, in care of Runa Mangl, General Delivery, Ashern, MB R0C 0E0, for use in the Ashern Personal Care Home. Arrangements by ARNASON FUNERAL HOMES, LTD. Ashern - Lundar 1-204-768-2072

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jun 11, 2001