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BRIAN GEORGE JASPER
With heavy hearts we are announcing the passing of our beloved father, grandfather, brother, and friend Brian George Jasper.
He is survived by his son Ken (Jana), granddaughters Cora, Brooklyn, Kait, Jordan, and Haley, great-grandchildren Ayries, Leira and Atticus, sisters Gail [Ernie (deceased)] Kurbis, Dianne [Bernie (deceased)] Toews, and Sharon (Ralph) Lambert, an abundance of nieces/nephews and great-nieces/nephews, close friend and companion Maggie Cummings, former wives Ann (mother of Ken), Gail, and Marilyn (deceased) along with a huge ensemble of extended family and friends.
After a prolonged battle with prostate cancer that he never let immobilize him, Brian passed peacefully in his sleep at the Gimli Hospital on July 31, 2023. Having led a self-professed wonderful life, Brian was fully at peace with leaving this world for the next.
Brian was a talented teacher and principal, but at heart he was a bushwhacker. His love for nature and the outdoors, inspired at a young age by his mother, knew no bounds. Born in Hartney, Manitoba in 1945 to Kenneth R. Jasper and Marion E. Green, he moved to Steinbach, Manitoba, for his high school years, coming with his parents and siblings from Lynn Lake in 1959. His broad smile and ready laugh endeared him to others. Some might be surprised to learn that he was also skilled enough at the violin to teach the instrument when still in high school. He went on to gain his B. A. Honours in Political Science at the University of Winnipeg and his education degree at the University of Manitoba.
Brian was at peace whenever in the bush. He held several teaching/principal positions in Northern, Central and Southern Manitoba, all in locations where he could be as close to nature as possible. He shared many happy hours with his son Ken in a canoe at Red Sucker Lake, going on fishing trips, enjoying pike and pickerel shore lunches, swimming and snorkelling and snowmobiling in winter. After retiring from teaching, Brian was owner-operator of a resort on the shores of the international Lake Metigoshe before fully retiring in Gimli, MB.
All his life, Brian was a questioner, a reader of books like Neale Donald Walsch’s “Conversations with God” or, for a time, various positive-thinking authors. Alternately pessimistic and optimistic, he seemed to be searching for a way to understand life events that puzzled him, or perhaps just an answer to the basic mysteries of existence, like why are we here? We don’t know how close he came to an answer that would satisfy him, but it seemed that he found something when he placed himself in the physical presence of trees and plants and water and animals and sky. If that environment could have spoken, it might have said: “We are one.”
Friends or family who wish to participate respectfully are invited to post pictures or stories they would like to share to his granddaughter Jordan’s Facebook Group: Brian Jasper Memorial: m.facebook.com/groups/828308398693180/?ref=share&mibextid=S66gvF
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We offer our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Brian Jasper July 31 2023 and hope that their memory may be a source of comfort during this difficult time. Your thoughts and kind words are greatly appreciated.