Leson's Funeral Home and Monumental

01/29/2026

Music has a way of unlocking rooms in our hearts we forgot were there. Not because of the sound… but because of the memories waiting inside it. 🎶

01/29/2026

Please keep Agnes’s family and friends in your thoughts.

With great sadness, the family of the late Agnes Josephine nee Husack Shabbits announce her passing at Canora, SK, on January 22, 2026, at the age of 89 years. Agnes was born on October 3, 1936, in the Tiny District, SK, where she grew up and attended Tiny School. She

01/29/2026

Sometimes grievers just need to be reminded. Reminded that grief is natural and normal. Grief is human and personal.

Grievers need to be reminded they are not doing anything wrong. There is no right or wrong way to grieve.

Grievers need to be reminded they are not broken. Your heart may feel broken but you are not broken.

Grievers need to be reminded they are not too dramatic or too sad. Grief is an emotional rollercoaster and it impacts people in so many ways and for a very long time.

And grievers need to be reminded they are not a burden. I know it can feel that way and yes perhaps it gets to be a lot for family and friends. But it can be helpful to lean on other grievers who have been there and understand.

Grievers need to be reminded they are human and grieving a devastating loss. Grieving for someone who they loved and mattered. For someone who left a deep footprint on their heart and now must live life without them in it.

It's hard and I'm sorry if you are carrying grief. I'm sorry if you are heartbroken and struggling to adapt to a life that has changed so much. Please know I"m here to listen. I'm here to normalize your experience and validate so much of what you are going through.

I'm also here to encourage you and remind you that you can and will get through this. Things won't always feel this raw and bad. But it takes time. Self care. Grace. Support. And it takes determination to keep moving even when you feel like you want to quit.

Sending love always.

Michele

01/29/2026

A colleague in Calgary asked us to share this information. Please keep Pat’s familyand friends in your thoughts.

Patricia Ruby Miles Patricia Pat Miles passed away peacefully in Calgary, Alberta, on Saturday, January 3, after many years of courageously facing the deteriorating effects of Parkinsons disease. Pat was born on March 18, 1945, in Canora, Saskatchewan, to Patrick and Elsie Fernets. She was predeceas...

01/22/2026

It’s been 5 weeks since our Blue Christmas Service where we talked about the darkness of grief and promised light would return.
You have made it through 100% of the dark days. Give yourself credit.
Know you are never alone.

Here comes the sun! 🌞

01/21/2026

Holding on to hope with you. May it rise on your heart this morning in beautiful and unexpected ways. ☀️🙏🏻

01/21/2026

They sneak up on you.
The memories you didn't plan to think about.

One second you're fine,
driving home, making dinner, answering emails —
and then something — a song, a smell, a flash of a place —
and you're right back there.

You can see their face like it was yesterday.
You hear their laugh, clear as day.
You feel the weight of what you lost all over again.

It stops you.
You're still standing there, frozen,
caught between the moment you're in
and the one that just came rushing back.

Some memories make you smile through the tears —
the inside jokes, the way they said your name,
the way they made even the worst days feel lighter.

Other memories feel like a gut punch —
hospital rooms, goodbyes you never wanted to say,
moments that still sting when you think about them.

They don’t wait until you’re ready.
They crash into you — in the middle of the store,
in the middle of a meeting,
in the middle of the night.

And for a second, it feels like too much —
like you can’t keep living this way, carrying this weight.

But then you realize — these memories are proof.
Proof that they were loved.
Proof that what you shared doesn’t just disappear.

You don’t outgrow it.
You learn to make space for it.
You let the memories come — the hard ones, the beautiful ones —
because they’re all you have left,
and somehow, they keep you connected.

So, when they sneak up on you, let them.
Let yourself cry. Let yourself smile.
Let yourself feel every bit of it —
because remembering is how they stay alive in you.
Written by: Aimee Suyko - In Their Footsteps

01/21/2026

Why I will Never Get Over Losing You:

Our lives are intertwined. The inside jokes. Each memory. So many of you.
Of us.
Everywhere I look. There we are.

Like a carefully knitted sweater.
You and I.
So many hours of life spent…
Woven together.
The laughs. The heartbreaks. Love. Tears. Adventures.

Year after Year.

Overlapping. Our lives together.

Tightly.

Then you were gone in an instant.

But what we built together can’t all just unravel like that.

After all that time. We are held together with all we were.

You just don’t stop loving. You don’t split your life into before and after.

Because you are very much still here within me.

I will never forget such an irreplaceable part of my life.

Impossible.

All that time spent. Together.

The one who contributed to the laugh lines in my own smile. The one who is in all of my best memories. My wins were your wins. Yours were mine. You are in my most treasured photographs. In the tight hugs I still can feel somehow…

Somedays it may look frayed and tattered. Because losing you wore me down. So much.

But I hold tightly to what is still dear to me. Our memories together still in tact. Secured.
Woven through and through.
You and I.
Me and you.

For Always.

01/21/2026

🌟 Debunking Myths about Grief 🌟

Myth: Talking about the deceased will make the child more upset.

💡 Fact: Encouraging open conversations about the person who passed away can help children process their emotions. 🗣️

In times of grief, communication is key. Providing a safe space for children to share their thoughts and feelings about their loved one can be incredibly healing.

It's important to encourage these conversations and support their emotional journey. 🤝💫

01/20/2026

I feel like there are so many things people don't know about those of us grieving a significant loss. This is especially true if they've never had a loss of their own.

They don't know the loss of my loved one is a fresh pain that I experience every day I wake up. They know what it's like to wake up from a bad dream, but they don't know what it feels like to wake up into one.

It's scary.

They don't know that I actually feel worse than I look. Sure I still take a shower and get dressed every day. This seems to be enough to fool them into thinking that I'm doing better than I am. They say, “You look good!”, which is nice, but it doesn't make me feel any better. If they only knew how I really feel.

It ain't pretty.

They don't know what I need. How can they? I don't even know. I'm grateful for them asking, and I do believe they really mean it, but when they say, “if there’s anything you need,” all I can think is, “I don’t know what I need. I don’t know how I’m feeling. I have no idea what I’m doing, or what I’m supposed to be doing, and I don’t know how you or anyone else can help”.

I just need my person back!

They don't know they can't fix me or cheer me up. They know I always laughed a lot before my loss. I smiled all the time. I liked a good joke. Now I'm not always seeing things as they once were. I'm usually just functioning on autopilot. I'm in constant survival mode.

I'm living in a fog.

Here's the thing...they don't know that sometimes my grief is so overwhelming, there's just no room for anything else.

I'm just tired.

What I wish they did know is that they can't look at a calendar and decide how I should feel or when I should 'get over it.'

I also wish they knew that it's the nature of the relationship, the way in which my person died, and the impact that person had on my day-to-day life that's a much better indicator of how much time I'll be grieving.

I think they're truly blessed...to not know what they don't know.

Gary Sturgis - Surviving Grief

01/20/2026

By: Walk A Mile With Me, A Widow's Journey

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