Margueritte L. (Peggy) Olshanoski Margueritte L. (Peggy) Olshanoski, born April 6, 1920, passed away peacefully on June 8, 2011. Peggy grew up on a mixed farm near Pense, Sask., eldest daughter of Anna and Samuel Arnold. She worked as a telephone operator in Maple Creek and Estevan. Married to Stanley Olshanoski, she made a home with him in Estevan. Along with raising three children (Donald, Patricia and Katherine), she tended her beautiful yard and garden amongst many friends and neighbours. As part of being a devoted grandmother, she often babysat grandchildren (Alisa, Scott, Stephen, Lyle and Warren). Peggy was also an accomplished cook and baker, which made her Christmas Eves events to cherish. She was an outstanding seamstress and created projects with needlepoint, knitting and crochet. Peggy's great love of nature and skill as a gardener were passed along to her family. Local songbirds were treated to a birdbath and always-full bird feeders. Kindness to and knowledge of creatures great and small moved her to invite neighbourhood cats indoors on cold winter nights. Peggy lived a long, full life in Estevan, and later became a resident of Hilltop Manor in Weyburn. She was one of the first people to take up residence in the building and lived there until she passed away. Her family thanks the staff at Hilltop for their years of dedicated care. If so desired, in memoriams may be directed to the Osteoporosis Society of Saskatchewan or to a charity of choice. Arrangements entrusted to RD Funeral Chapel. No funeral by preference, with a private memorial gathering at Weyburn's Hillcrest Cemetery. Her loving family offers this final blessing, "May this, your longest rest, be one of perfect peace."
