Delores Grace Hanska

IT IS WITH HEAVY HEARTS WE ANNOUNCE THE PASSING OF OUR LOVED ONE DELORES HANSKA.  DELORES WAS BORN IN WOLSELEY SK AND RAISED IN CARRY THE KETTLE BY HER PARENTS AND SIBLINGS.

SHE SPENT MOST OF HER ADULT LIFE IN BIRDTAIL SIOUX WHERE SHE RAISED HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.  IT IS HERE WHERE SHE MET AND MARRIED HER HUSBAND OF MANY YEARS.  DELORES WAS WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO GOT TO MEET HER.  SHE WAS KIND-HEARTED AND GOOD NATURED.  HER PERSONALITY REFLECTED IN EVERYTHING SHE HAD SONE IN LIFE.  WHETHER IT WAS WORKING AT THE BIRDTAIL STORE AT A YOUNG AGE, OR AS CHR, OR IN HER CAREER AS A CERTIFIED HEALTH CARE AIDE.  SHE WAS A HARD WORKER AND TOOK PRIDE IN HER WORK BY BEING WELL ORGANIZED. 

A LOVING WIFE, MOTHER, AND GRANDMOTHER SHE WAS A GREAT COOK AND BAKER.  SHE WOULD ALWAYS HAVE SOMETHING COOKING OR BAKING DAILY.  WHEN SHE HAD VISITORS, SHE WOULD WHIP UP SOMETHING QUICKLY.  SHE WAS ALWAYS WILLING TO TEACH HER DAUGHTERS AND GRANDDAUGHTERS THE COOKING AND BAKING SKILLS SHE LEARNED FROM HER MOTHER.

ON THE HOLIDAYS SHE ENJOYED DECORATING, DRESSING UP, AND HANDING GIFTS AND CANDIES TO NOT ONLY HER CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, BUT TO CHILDREN WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.

DELORES IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND MIKE HANSKA, DAUGHTERS FARRAH (RON), SUMMER (DEVON), SONS PERCY JR, SAMUEL, MIKE HANSKA JR, SHANE HOTAIN, STELLA, STERLING AND FELECIA, RANDALL, AND MANY GRANDCHILDREN, SISTERS LENORA (MISSING), BROTHERS, NIECES, NEPHEWS, AND COUSINS.

SHE IS PRE-DECEASED BY HER MOTHER JESSIE SAULTEAUX, FATHER WILLIAM (BILLY) THOMSON, SON DAKOTA SAULTEAUX, SISTERS MARILYN, MAXINE, SHIELA, BROTHERS GABRIEL, KENWARD, GRANDCHILDREN AUTUMN, KATIE, MILEY, TREY, BYRON, AND OTHER FAMILY WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE.

SHE WILL BE DEARLY MISSED BY ALL OF US WHOSE LIVES SHE TOUCHED.