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It is with great sadness that the family of Aleida Van Burgsteden of Saskatoon announces her peaceful passing at home on February 8, 2024 at the age of 98.  Ali was born in Achterveld, the Netherlands on March 2, 1925.  She was the eldest of seven children and grew up on the farm near Achterveld. She married Jim on March 16, 1952 and they boarded the ship to Canada six days later.  They began their life together in Canada in Dundurn, Saskatchewan where they stayed for one year and where their first child Harry was born.   They then moved to Allan where they worked for two years for the O’Grady family and they became lifelong friends visiting back and forth every summer.  Their second child Betty was born during that time. In the spring of 1955 they moved to Kinistino with all of their belongings in the back of their one-ton truck where they began their farming career together which they enjoyed so much.  The remaining seven children were born over the next ten years.  Mom loved being outdoors tending her flowers planted around the house, growing a huge garden, picking her beautiful raspberries and cutting the grass on her riding John Deere mower, her absolute favorite job which she loved and continued doing until she was 91.  She liked her morning and afternoon coffee breaks with family and especially loved Sunday afternoons when some or all of her kids and grandkids would come home for a summer barbecue or all pack into the house for a cozy meal in the winter. Once the girls had left home and the boys were farming, Mom and Dad started travelling south in the winter and purchased a home in Yuma where they enjoyed many happy winters in the warm sunshine that Mom so loved. Mom’s faith was very important to her and even in the busiest of times Sunday morning mass was always attended at home and in Yuma. Ali spent the last five years in Stonebridge Crossing Retirement Home in Saskatoon. She leaves to mourn her loving children, Betty (Harry), Barbara (Arie), Joan (Andy), Rosemary (Marcel), Gerald (Darla), John (Sharon) and Tony (Kim).  She is also lovingly remembered by her grandchildren Steven (Lisa), Michael (Stephanie), Daniel (Jackie), Paul (Chantelle), Vanessa (Kevin), Patrick (Maria), Darran (Kelsie), Mark, Erin (Ollie), Neil (Carissa), Thea (Rob), Corrie (Zach), Etta (Koby), Kayla, Clarissa (Kyle).  She will also be missed by her great-grandchildren Lily, Julie, Jake, Carter, Mason, Alexander, Esme, Aleida, Sydney, Thomas, Elise, Ethan, Olivia and Eliana as well as her sister Jans in The Netherlands.  Ali is predeceased by her loving husband Jim, her sons Harry and Jimmy and her granddaughter Lisette.

Memorial contributions in memory of Ali may be directed to the Kinistino Cemetery Society Fund.