Date of Birth: June 6, 1935
Date of Death: November 9, 2023
After being widowed, Effie worked the Classic Inn’s front desk in Melville, then the Bangor Nursing Home, where she met and then married
Rynold Schlechter on Sept. 28, 1991. They worked together on Effie’s home baking business until, sadly, she was widowed a second time in 2013.
Effie was a homemaker excelling in baking, sewing, knitting, crocheting, and gardening. She enjoyed bingo, bowling, dancing, and playing board games, and loved attending softball sports days that ended with listening to old time music on the radio. But her greatest Joy was her grandchildren.
Effie was predeceased by her parents, James and Mary Jane Gwilliam; husbands, Adolph Hahn and Rynold Schlechter; son James in infancy; daughter Gail McCuaig (Hahn); sister Fanny Burstyk (Gwilliam); and brothers, Ivan, Harry and Herman Gwilliam.
She leaves to mourn her sister, Ethel (Roy) Reiger, Grenfell, SK; daughter Connie Hahn, Calgary, AB; son Terry (Tanya) Hahn, Melville, SK; grandchildren, Jessie (Stacey) McCuaig, Kamloops, BC, McKenzie (Kevin) Schwittai (Hahn), Cochrane, AB, Jessica Kimpton, Saskatoon, SK, Georgia Hahn, Melville, SK; great-grandchildren, Quinn and Amelia McCuaig, Nolan and Hazel Schwittai; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and godchildren.
A graveside service was held on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023 at 1 p.m. from the Melville Municipal Cemetery.
Arrangements were by Bailey’s Funeral Home, Melville
