Tribute to Katie

Our sister recently passed away. We would like to share these moments from her life.

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One Day at a Time

Preformed by Katherine Opden Dries (beloved granddaughter)

I'm only human.
I'm just a woman.
Lord help me believe in all I can be
And all that I am.
Show me the stairway that I have to climb
And Lord for my sake
Teach me to take one day at a time.

One day at a time sweet Jesus
That's all that I'm asking from You.
Lord give me the strength to do every day what I have to do.
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus and tomorrow may never be mine.
Lord help me today show me the way one day at a time.

Now do You remember when You walked among men?
Well Jesus You know if You're looking below
It's worse now than then.
Pushing and shoving violence and crime
And so for my sake teach me to take one day at a time.

One day at a time sweet Jesus
That's all that I'm asking from You.
Lord give me the strength to do every day what I have to do.
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus and tomorrow may never be mine.
Lord help me today and show me the way one day at a time.

Lord help me today show me the way
One day at a time.

Written by: Kristofferson Kristoffer, Wilkin Marijohn

             MY SISTER
 By John Bergen

My sister is like a…….. blister
Sensitive on top of the skin
But protecting and healing
What’s deeper within

From early in life
She's been under my thumb.
Four little words would make her run.
”Tien come rock me,” had great power.
I’m surprised she didn’t sour
But grew up like a prairie flower.
 
Then one fall in the potato field
Where we had an exceptional yield,
She dreaded and fretted,
Her arms were sore.
How to get those potatoes in to store.
I picked up a bag and walked away.
Quietly I heard her say,
“I don’t have a little brother any more.”
 
All these years she’s been in my sight,
Her baking and cooking a great delight.
Even now, tho’ she is on display
My shadow is not far away.
 
                  Your little brother

My Mother-in-law, Susanne (Loewen) Bergen

My mother-in-law was a cheerful, outwardly calm, trusting person who took life as it came.  She had survived many difficulties in the Soviet Union, but she was not bitter, always looking on the positive side.  She loved to tell stories, record genealogies and connect people who were separated by the war.  She learned to speak English in mid-life; managed a boarding house in Winnipeg and watched her grandchildren grow up in a new country, Canada.

Here is the first picture taken after  she arrived in Canada with her four children, Katie, Peter, Henry and JOHN in 1947. [l-r: Susanne, brother Jake, sister Maria Penner]

Connecting to her siblings in Canada was a real miracle. She had a partial address of her brother Jake Loewen in Elm Creek, MB; a partial address of her sister Maria Penner in Saskatchewan (who had moved to B.C.) The mailman checked around and found the right address for Henry and Maria Penner so they got the letter and here they are at Uncle Jake’s farm in Culross, MB.  (More pictures and stories to follow)