Titus Vollmer
April 5th, 1935 - June 17th, 2018

Our Father was always one to teach us about respecting everything from respecting others,respecting our elders and most importantly respecting yourself. He was always the light in the room, always smiling,laughing,singing or whistling. He was our teacher for everything like being our soccer coach, to showing us how to swing a hammer or cast our lines while fishing. He showed us how to build onto our house in Irricana using power tools or hand tools and even the best way for me to dig to China.

Our dad was a millwright for as long as I remember which meant he was gone for 3 weeks at a time. But the day he was supposed to be home guaranteed we would walk out of school and see him sitting there waiting for us. He always made sure that the time he was home was filled with love and spoils for all of us.

One of my fondest memories was our garden filled with tons of strawberries and carrots during the summer, and my personal skating rink during the winter. He was always creating fun things or trying to convince us of how smart he was for others. I will never forget the summer our backyard was filled with red bees. Dad had found a bees nest in his work boots so to get rid of them he sprayed red spray paint inside the boot, but instead of them dying they all came flying out at dad. I don't even remember how many times he got stung but over the next few days we would find red bees in the grass.

Our Father loved to dance and sing but even more so he loved his Saturday morning whistling which he did quite loudly to get us up and helping around the house so we could head into the city to go shopping. His time growing up in Indonesia was something he rarely talked about but when he did it was always a lesson for us about how to care for our belongings.. one of his favorite lines was: " when I was growing up we had to walk 3km to school every day even in 2 ft of snow so we made sure we didn't drag our feet or we would have to walk barefoot". We know life was hard in Indonesia and he always told us to make sure we have at least 3 months for rent/mortgage, bills and food saved - just in case. He never acted like we had a lot of money, but he made sure we never went without.

Our Dad let us make our mistakes and even came to help us fix them more times then I'd like to admit, but he let us grow without keeping us restricted in life and I want thank him for that. He allowed us to enjoy life, not to be scared, and especially not to be scared to fail because at the very least we would learn from those mistakes. Our father always told us to enjoy life,enjoy our family and live. He wanted us to travel and see the world,he wanted us to experience life to its fullest. One of the greatest things I can always hold onto about our father was when he became an Opa he loved his grandchildren even more then he loved us most days, and was even more thrilled to have another generation to teach. I am honored to say my father had a huge hand in raising my children and his sense of humor,his love for singing and whistling shines bright in all of them.

These past few years every time we would visit he was always full of energy and laughter because even though he lived with advanced Dementia his world was filled with sneaking out of his longterm care center to go dancing with his Brothers every night and hitting on the nurses during the day. Our Father, and Opa will forever be missed but we know he is now pain free, fishing, dancing and chasing all the girls in Heaven for a lifetime to come.

Dad Rest in Absolute Paradise, catch lots of fish and girls and til we meet again. We love you.

Arrangements entrusted to the care of Choice Memorial Cremation & Funeral Services (403) 277-7343.