Funeral service will held at 2:00PM on Saturday April 8, 2023 at the Chortitz Old Colony Mennonite Church with interment to follow at the Hochfeld Cemetery. Viewing will be from 1PM-6:30PM on Friday at Wiebe Funeral Home, Winkler and at the church prior to the service.
Anna Dyck (nee Kroeker)
1940 ~ 2023
At Salem Home in Winkler, MB, Anna decided it was time to rest and passed away peacefully with her family by her side.
She was predeceased by her husband, John and 2 sons, Isaac and Peter, and a number of brothers and sisters, as well as brothers and sisters in law.
She was born in Altona, MB in September 1940 and was the 11th of 15 children. She was baptized in May of 1961 and she married John in June of 1961. When Anna was born, her parents blessed her with a scripture, as they did with each of their children. Hers was taken from John 9:4 where it says “I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work”. Anyone who knew Anna knew that she lived those words every day of her life. Whether she was farming in Mexico, planting and picking tomatoes in Ontario, cleaning the golf course in Winkler, or feeding and caring for her children, grandchildren and their many friends, her hands never stopped. The determination to live up to the words of that scripture ran through her veins just as strong as the love and care she had for her family and the faith she had in God.
After the funeral announcements, and with The Price is Right playing in the background, she was always the first one to be up in the morning making waffles and white sauce until you couldn’t eat anymore. Her days were spent rolling dough for Kielke and Schmaundt-Fat, perogies, and noodle soup, making buns, or slicing watermelon to have with roll kuchen. She was by far the best cook in the world, mostly because every noodle, every perogy, every waffle, and every taco was made and motivated by love for the person she was making it for. She knew everyone’s favorite food and made sure you had it to your heart’s content. Food was her love language and when you ate at Grandma’s table you knew how loved you were. When that table wasn’t covered in flour, it was covered in puzzle pieces, knackzoat, and pictures. Many hours were spent building pictures that were so much more meaningful that any picture on a box. Pictures and moments in time when she was content to sit with you when the days work was done. Where she wasn’t teaching you to cook, but she was teaching you to rest, because those quiet moments of togetherness were just as important as hard work. She taught us that while its important to do the edges first, the middle is just as important because altogether you get to see the big picture. For her, that picture was her family. Her sisters and brothers, her husband and children, her grandchildren and great grandchildren, and most importantly, her Heavenly Father.
She leaves to mourn her passing her brother, Frank and her sister, Lisa, her six children: Tina (Mike), Helen (Brian), John (Lori-Ann), Anna, Isaac, Eva (Jason), her 11 grandchildren: Crystal (Michael), Janine, Mason, Vanessa (Nic), Samantha, Chantelle, Jasmyn, Tyler, Madison, Alexandria, Jordan, and her 8 great grandchildren: Hayley, Hannah, Claire, Arthur, Jaxon, Branson, Nova and Stella.
John 11:25, 26 says, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”
Anna lived her life by faith and love and though she is resting now, we know we will see her again. Until then, her example, her heart, and her love live on in each one of us.
Anna Dyck (nee Kroeker)
1940 ~ 2023
At Salem Home in Winkler, MB, Anna decided it was time to rest and passed away peacefully with her family by her side.
She was predeceased by her husband, John and 2 sons, Isaac and Peter, and a number of brothers and sisters, as well as brothers and sisters in law.
She was born in Altona, MB in September 1940 and was the 11th of 15 children. She was baptized in May of 1961 and she married John in June of 1961. When Anna was born, her parents blessed her with a scripture, as they did with each of their children. Hers was taken from John 9:4 where it says “I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work”. Anyone who knew Anna knew that she lived those words every day of her life. Whether she was farming in Mexico, planting and picking tomatoes in Ontario, cleaning the golf course in Winkler, or feeding and caring for her children, grandchildren and their many friends, her hands never stopped. The determination to live up to the words of that scripture ran through her veins just as strong as the love and care she had for her family and the faith she had in God.
After the funeral announcements, and with The Price is Right playing in the background, she was always the first one to be up in the morning making waffles and white sauce until you couldn’t eat anymore. Her days were spent rolling dough for Kielke and Schmaundt-Fat, perogies, and noodle soup, making buns, or slicing watermelon to have with roll kuchen. She was by far the best cook in the world, mostly because every noodle, every perogy, every waffle, and every taco was made and motivated by love for the person she was making it for. She knew everyone’s favorite food and made sure you had it to your heart’s content. Food was her love language and when you ate at Grandma’s table you knew how loved you were. When that table wasn’t covered in flour, it was covered in puzzle pieces, knackzoat, and pictures. Many hours were spent building pictures that were so much more meaningful that any picture on a box. Pictures and moments in time when she was content to sit with you when the days work was done. Where she wasn’t teaching you to cook, but she was teaching you to rest, because those quiet moments of togetherness were just as important as hard work. She taught us that while its important to do the edges first, the middle is just as important because altogether you get to see the big picture. For her, that picture was her family. Her sisters and brothers, her husband and children, her grandchildren and great grandchildren, and most importantly, her Heavenly Father.
She leaves to mourn her passing her brother, Frank and her sister, Lisa, her six children: Tina (Mike), Helen (Brian), John (Lori-Ann), Anna, Isaac, Eva (Jason), her 11 grandchildren: Crystal (Michael), Janine, Mason, Vanessa (Nic), Samantha, Chantelle, Jasmyn, Tyler, Madison, Alexandria, Jordan, and her 8 great grandchildren: Hayley, Hannah, Claire, Arthur, Jaxon, Branson, Nova and Stella.
John 11:25, 26 says, “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”
Anna lived her life by faith and love and though she is resting now, we know we will see her again. Until then, her example, her heart, and her love live on in each one of us.