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Pamela posted a symbolic gesture
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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I was honoured and blessed to have met and known Ron as my father-in-law for over 32 years, but to me, he was the Grand of all Dads. I'll never forget all of the times he rushed to my rescue or just "held space" for me and Kevin, Lex and Brogan. Such a selfless and heroic person to know when one is in a pinch! I remember having all of my wisdom teeth removed and recovering at home with young Lexi when Kevin was away at work. Somehow, I had an impaction and caught a fever, but I managed to deliriously drive over to the Klombies' at Heritage Estates where I collapsed on their couch. Barb took amazing care of the babe while Ron sprang into action, calling my dental surgeon's office and driving off to the pharmacy to pick up my prescriptions so that I could get some relief! Another time he looked after the household in Calgary, kids, golden retriever and all, so that Kevin and I could have a much needed couples' retreat to go house-boating. Ron was a curious conversationalist and such an easy person to talk with. I never found him grumpy or in a cross mood. Even with his gentle manner, you somehow knew that he would lay his life down for his family and friends and his extended family of hangers on and ne'er do wells (like me!) but I always felt protected and loved unconditionally. I do miss him. Dearly. But I remember him and smile. I love you GrandDad. Cheers.
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Jörg Hackelbusch lit a candle
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
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Condolences to Rons family from Erika Hackelbusch (Klombies) , Jörg Hackelbusch and family from Berlin, Germany.
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Greg Trotter posted a condolence
Saturday, February 18, 2023
I offer my condolences to Barbara and her family. My relationship with Ron was through Kinsmen and K-40. Ron was a quiet man but was always interested in what I was doing and how I was. I will mis our visits. Greg Trotter
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Ralph Schneider posted a condolence
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Marg and I returned from Toronto February 11th. We had been there to be with our daughter Joan in her last hours. We found to our
further sadness Ron's obituary in the Star Phoenix editions that had accumulated.
In 1968 we moved to our new house on Leddy Crescent to become neighbors of the Klombies family. For our eight years on that sreet ours was a happy time. Its residents were socially cohesive sharing many celebrations so it was difficult to leave behind. Especially so our gracious neighbors, Ron and Barb and their great kids. Robert, cute kid that he was, was a playmate of Joan's and started school with her at College Park.
Now that Joan has gone to the other side at about the same time, she will be happy to recognize that familiar friendly face of Ron.
Joan had urged us to move to Heritage Estates which we did about twenty years ago. We again found ourselves welcomingly as neighbors of Ron and Barb and another opportunity to reconnect with their family.
The impediments of age warranted Ron and Barb moving to Luther Riverside Terrace. About two months ago I called him to ask how they were getting on. In his typically frank and pragmatic way he described the move as positive. For such an accomplished citizen of Saskatoon who made many contributions to it, I think if we could ask he would find his new place candidly to his liking.
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Karen (Klombies) Wright Posted Feb 18, 2023 at 6:05 PM
I am so very sorry to hear that Joan has made her way to the Other Side at such a young age, and offer my deepest condolences. I believe you're right she and Dad will find each other ... I like to think they're sharing a happy Homecoming celebration.
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Doug Lovegrove posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Condolences to family on Ron’s passing.I had known Ron for decades through Kinsmen & k 40. Ron was well informed and easy to talk with on many subjects.I ran into Ron every Tuesday at circle park mall were he walked,and I was going to the Tuesday $2.00 movies and he would ask “what are you going to see today” and we would talk movies. Many fond memories.
Sincerely
Doug Lovegrove
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Curtis Howie lit a candle
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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I viewed Grandad as my own grandpa. He was so kind and curious, always interested in what I had going on. I have many fond memories of passing time with him, sitting on the couch, sharing a beer and typically watching hockey or football. It was wonderful to see the ways he interacted with Veronika and Isabel. They looked forward to the little stash of candy in the cabinet and sharing their lives with him. Grandad was a comforting presence. It was easy to be relaxed around him. I will be missed greatly.
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Patricia Garner lit a candle
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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The Klombies house on Leddy Cres was my second home for many years. I have many fond memories of that house and the lake house.
My brother and I ran into Mr Klombies a few years back at Circle Mall. All I had to say was it's George and he knew who I was as when I called over there when I was in Saskatoon. We visited for a bit and then he said to my brother and I that it was nice to see young people getting old! Hmmmm.
Such a lovely man. Mr Klombies will be missed by all but forever in our hearts.
Patricia Garner (nee Johnson)
Aiken, SC
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Sherry King posted a condolence
Saturday, February 4, 2023
Sending sincerest condolences to the Klombies clan, especially Karen who was one of my best friends in public and high school. We had a lot of fun in her very welcoming house. ❤️
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Bob Dilts posted a symbolic gesture
Saturday, February 4, 2023
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Ron made a significant impact on my life which I readily acknowledge. It was his selfless giving, quiet presence and interest in others that impressed me. His contributions to both the Kinsmen Club and its good works and the oversight of policy with the Saskatoon Board of Education were very real and appreciated. My sincere condolences to Barb and families.
Bob Dilts
Victoria, BC
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Linda Olbort posted a condolence
Saturday, February 4, 2023
My deepest condolences to Barbara and family. I first met Barb and Ron through the Saskatoon Bridge Club. A gracious, courteous, warm man, a pleasure to be at the table with Ron. Barb mentored me in bridge and was my primary, favorite partner over the years. I got to meet Ron through social activities connected with bridge, but later on, when I went to movies at the Center Mall, while waiting for the movies to start I was there to see, I met Ron walking laps there. He walked fast, giving short little me a challenge to keep up, but I enjoyed very much visiting with him. An absolute delightful conversationalist and gentleman to be around, he even offered to carry my heavy winter coat but I didn't take him up on it. He showed there are amazing men in the world and there can be a storybook romance. I have never met any couple more suited and in love with each other tahn Barb and Ron. It breaks my heart Barb will be without him. {{{hugs}}} and love,
Linda Olbort
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Friday, February 3, 2023
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I want to pour out my heart in remembrance of Dad, but where do I begin? There is so much to share.
It’s hard to talk about Dad without talking about “Mom and Dad.” I’ve often remarked to myself and others how very fortunate I have been to have the parents I do. The stability, grounding, and support of my upbringing laid the foundation on which I would build a life of meaning. Their relationship of mutual love and respect set the standard for what I would accept in my own.
The values I hold dear are rooted in what I was taught as a child … compassion, responsibility, respect, integrity, honesty, commitment, service. Dad and Mom each modeled behaviour reflecting these values, and they have profoundly shaped my life.
When I reflect on Dad, I have so many childhood memories … sitting on his lap while he helped me learn to tell time … discussing investment principles with him when I was 8 … flying with him to Fernie for a special ski trip at 14 … his patience in chauffering me to university each morning on his way to work … his driving from Saskatoon to Calgary after I’d graduated to deliver Amma’s antique sewing machine (only to later find puncture holes in his leather seats from the metal feet of its legs!)
And of course, there are myriad memories from my adult life, including many revolving around a shared passion of golf. But perhaps the most important involve how he responded to the other two most important men in my life.
My first husband, Ron (yes, you read this right … his name was also Ron, as is the husband of my sister … in fact, at one point, all the Klombies women were married to “Ron”) … so in 1986 Ron came with me from Calgary to meet his future in-laws.
As a 44-year-old man, about to meet the parents of his 25-year-old fiancé, he was naturally nervous … particularly about Dad. Raised in the US, Ron had visions of a hunting rifle being pulled out and waved menacingly in his direction ….
But from the moment the front door opened, both Dad and Mom were welcoming and gracious. Very quickly, Ron fell in love with them … as they did with him, and a beautiful, lasting friendship was born. In fact, I have no doubt Ron was there to greet Dad when Dad left this world.
The other love of my life, Greg, also made the introductory trek years later, this time from Vancouver Island. He’d had a different family experience in his upbringing and wasn’t quite sure why I, at 48, felt it important he meet my parents. Until he did … and experienced their warm and welcoming embrace into the family. He too has fallen in love with them, and cherishes the friendship that’s blossomed.
So, now I’m 62, and throughout all these years, the feeling has never left me of wanting to make Dad proud in all I did. Although he was not raised to easily express emotion, I was never in doubt that I had … and that he loved me with all his heart. As I do him.
Forever your daughter …. Karen
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Lynette Geddes posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
My Uncle Ron and Auntie Barbie were very different from my own parents - not better or worse, just different. When I was 11 (I am a few weeks older than Cathy) the Klombies family took me with them back to Saskatoon for the summer after visiting my family in Montreal. Two memories immediately pop up whenever I think of him - playing with all of us kids in the motel swimming pools as we crossed the country, and the anticipation among the kids as we gathered to watch Hogan's Heroes. He would always march down the stairs as the theme music played - to our unending delight.
Uncle Ron always made me feel like one of his own kids and I truly appreciated it.
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Shirley Persaud posted a condolence
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
We send our condolences to Kevin (our son- in -law) , Barbara (the love of his life) and all of the Klombies family. Although we only met Ron a few times, one being at Kevin and Pamela’s wedding in Saskatoon, we felt his heart warming welcome to the Klombies home. We felt the presence of his kind and gentle soul.
May the many good memories you have with Ron live on in your hearts.
Shirley and Ray Persaud
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Bob Klombies posted a condolence
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
This morning (Tuesday) something is missing. I have been having coffee with Ron on Tuesday for 30 years and now he’s gone. It‘s tough. He and I enjoyed a very special and unique brotherly relationship both in business and personally as we were together on the golf course, at the YMCA and The Field House, on ski trips into the mountains, and on winter golf weeks south.
You could always depend on Ron to do what he promised, to be on time, and to be totally honest in his opinions. And those opinions were always based on a critical analysis of the facts. At the same time he was a kind, even tempered man who could get along with any one.
I depended on him for a lot over the years, and his passing leaves a big, empty space in my life, not only Tuesdays.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023
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I was so lucky to have him as my Grandad. He came to my track meets and basketball games, sent me to science camp, and brought me fresh homemade buns a few hours after Isabel was born at home (he was the first person she met). He always had my husband's favourite beer stocked in the fridge for him. He had tea parties with my daughters, proudly hung their artwork on the fridge, came to Veronika’s first “race” to cheer her on (a baby crawling competition), and would always take them to the pool if they asked and happily watch them perform various jumps and dives and do their routines. He loved visiting with them and hearing about the various things they were learning and experiencing.
Life feels different now, knowing that I won’t be able to make him another birthday cake, talk with him about current events and politics, watch him delight in seeing and visiting with my girls, feel his strong hands on my shoulders, see my girls go racing to his special cupboard to find the little cups of m&ms he’d always have ready for them, answer his many cooking related questions while he watched me cook a meal for him and Amma, accept a glass of white wine from him as soon as I entered their home, and hear him say “good show” when he was proud of me.
Grandad wrote “to whom much has been given, much is expected” to me in my baby book and he modelled this throughout his life. He believed deeply in serving his community - it was a privilege to watch and learn from him.
Many of my friends knew him or had met him, and I think this is important and a special thing about Grandad. He was curious about people, and so welcoming to anyone I brought to the house or to the pool for a swim. He would often ask me about my friends and what was new in their lives. He cared deeply about people.
I’m incredibly grateful and fortunate to have had 41 years with him. He will be deeply missed by me, Curtis, Veronika, and Isabel.
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Marie Klombies posted a condolence
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
What does one say when the tears won’t stop and your hand is trembling?
As a brother-in-law, Ron was accepting and happy when I joined the Klombies family. He was encouraging when at the age of 60 I joined Riverside Golf Club. His little chuckle and welcoming smile helped me eventually break 100 and below. So Ron for the 24 years that I have known you I say thank you for everything.
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