HAYHOE, Denise Margaret (Denzin) - Denise Margaret Hayhoe passed into the loving arms of her Saviour Jesus Christ peacefully on Sunday morning, March 21, 2021, after a struggle with vascular dementia.
Denise Margaret Denzin was born in Regina, Saskatchewan to Arnley and Agnes Denzin, on March 24th, 1938. She already had a big brother Warren.
She would live out on the family farm in Tregarva, Saskatchewan where she would grow up, and attend school at the one room schoolhouse with her 10 classmates, just up the dirt road from their homestead.
Denise was a naturally inquisitive and bright girl, and she enjoyed learning how things functioned and worked. She trailed around behind her Dad at the farm, and he taught her many things. She was a natural-born farm girl, and much preferred being her Dad’s farmhand than she did cooking with her Mom in the kitchen.
She did develop a great love for gardening, and flowers of many varieties, as well as a deep love for animals. She was a competitor, and loved being challenged by new things, and learned how to make things last, and make new uses for old things. She was recycling and repurposing before it was the “thing” to do. It challenged her.
She attended Scott Collegiate for High School, and then later attended nursing school in Regina, where she became an RN. This was one of her proudest achievements. She met, and married the love of her life John Harold Hayhoe. They went on to have four children together. Jill, Mark, Greg, and Dean. She also had one son in law, and three daughters’ in law. Lorin Brandon, Carylin Hayhoe, Jenn Hayhoe, and Rhonda Hayhoe. Her 10 grandchildren came next which she thought of as her crowning glory, and she adored them all personally. Zach, Logan and Bianca Brandon, Mikhail and Linnea Hayhoe, Haley and Hunter Hayhoe, and Madison, Sydney, and Cole Hayhoe.
Denise had many passions. She loved to garden, and ride on her “John Deere” tractor out cutting the lawn. Secretly I think she was just trying to escape us kids. She enjoyed building and painting bird houses, and fixing anything with needle nose pliers, a coat hanger, or a universal screw driver. She despised squirrels, and when they kept stealing from her bird feeders, she asked if I could purchase a “potato gun” from Cabella’s in the US to discourage the pillaging of her precious feeders. She was meticulous about the height of the grass in her yard, and that her gardens were always properly weeded.
She dabbled in water colour painting, and then came her love for teddy bears. I blame my Dad because he bought her first “Steiff” teddy, and the rest is history. She owned and operated her own Teddy Bear store called, “The Olde Teddy Bear Shoppe,” in Kleinburg, Ontario for 10 years.
She lovingly and watchfully cared over her husband John when he developed "Parkinsons Disease" at the age of 50… it broke her heart.
We will miss you Mum and Grandma… You were unique, complicated, challenging, fun, introverted, shy, and you hated the smell of fish, well, except for “fish and chips.”
“When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul” Psalm 94:19
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope” Romans 15:13
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you. I could walk in my garden forever.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson
She is now rejoined with her loving parents Arnley & Agnes Denzin, her beloved husband John Harold Hayhoe, her brother Warren Denzin and her loving granddaughter Bianca Brandon. She will be missed by her loving children Jill, Mark (Carylin), Greg (Jenn) and Dean (Rhonda) Hayhoe. Remembered by her loving grandchildren Zach, Logan & Bianca Brandon, Mikhail & Linnea Hayhoe, Haley & Hunter Hayhoe,Madison, Sydney and Cole Hayhoe.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to following charities:
FutureVision Ministries www.fvm.on.ca
The Gideons International of Canada www.Gideons.ca
National Order of Rare Diseases (NORD- Lissencephaly) www.rarediseases.org
Private funeral arrangements and livestream link details are entrusted with Scott funeral home, Woodbridge chapel.
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