Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Dear Jeannette and Woykin family members,
Please accept our deepest and sincerest heartfelt condolences on the passing of your father, grandfather, brother and uncle. I was saddened by the news of your father's passing, whom I was honored to have known.
Your father was the water that turned the wheel that weaved the threads in and out of the patterns of life for all of those who knew him.He reminded you of the past while living and being in the present. His deep beliefs and spirituality were not born with the aged knowledge, but instead were sought after from the truth in life itself that were taught from those who came before him. Your father managed to look beyond barriers to see the good and the beauty that this world and those within it had to offer.
Your father was a strong person, both inside and out, and his life exemplified that. He always put family into the forefront of his life, making sure all were taken care of in certain ways. He spread his wing tips and absorbed the colours of life, and was very generous and rich when it came to giving love. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take ... but by the moments that take our breath away. The passing of your father has left you without a breath for the moment...but when you are regalling those times that his presence or word touched your lives, those are the times that will continue to take your breath away and bring a thoughtful tear or smile to one's heart. As long as you have memories in your heart, your father will never be truly forgotten.
You will remember him by... his smile like that of the morning sunrise and his love like warm sunshine on your face. He will be the wind that now moves you gently side to side in life forever. He will always be your starlight burning bright as he was when he was here.
If I may leave you with a thought that my father once told me... The clock of life is wound but once and no person has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late, or early hour. Now is the only time you own ! Live, love, toil with a purpose, place no faith in tomorrow, for the clock may soon be still. Your father is now with your mother again as it was in the past, as it will be now forever more.
From the earth we grow, from the ash we rest. In peace may you find the shore...in love, may you find the ground...may you find everlasting comfort on your journey ...where you all will meet again some day.
Sasnya Besnya
Glenn, Wanda and Kynan Konkin
