George Peter Baron
March 30, 1920 - July 27, 2016


The death of George Baron of St. Benedict SK occurred on Wednesday, July 27, 2016.  He was 96 years of age.  George Peter Baron was born on the Baron family homestead outside of the village of St. Benedict on March 30, 1920.  He was the third youngest of fourteen children. On June 1, 1953 he married the love of his life, Frances Kamphaus. George was an integral member of the St. Benedict community. He enjoyed the sport of curling and won many a game within the bonspiel. He was gifted with great skills in the various trades. He was asked to set the first rafters in place for the skating rink in St. Benedict. During the construction of St. Andrew’s Church (St. Benedict Roman Catholic Parish) he was set in charge of mixing the mortar for the team of bricklayers. For nearly a decade, he was employed by Andy Varga as a seasonal mechanic. Combine repairs were his specialty. He worked concurrently as a welder and fabricator for Dave Varga and built cultivators, designed a custom-made jig with hydraulics to mass-produce stone forks; and with his mastery of masonry he was in charge of hand-casting cement blocks. He also farmed full-time and kept animals and poultry. Over several years, he mowed the road allowance for the RM of Three Lakes. In the early 1980’s he worked as a grain handler for Joe Bernard at the Sask Wheat Pool elevator in St. Benedict. His last employment prior to retirement was as foremen to manage, maintain and groom the waterfront and campsites of Lucien Lake (Todd Schuler was one of his crew). He also built, with the aid of his staff, several Purple Martin houses for the lake grounds, which still stand today. He continued farming until 1993. Though he rented out his land, he continued to participate through trucking, running for parts and attending to machinery repair. It was only in the last year of his life that he retired completely but he continued to live on the family farm with his beloved wife. He will forever be remembered for his warm gentle ways, his love of life, his remarkable ingenuity and that particular twinkle in his eye as he was telling a joke.George will be lovingly remembered  and  sadly missed  by  his  wife of  63 years Frances (nee Kamphaus) Baron and their children: Barb (Reg) Wedewer and family, Carrie Thoms (Darren Engele) and her children: Breanna and Terran Thoms, Brad Wedewer (David Holmes); Debbie (Harold) Oleksyn and their son Shawn; Linda (Myles) Mann and their family, Leah (Matthew) Wilchowy, Kristina (Darnell) Weiman and their family Cohen and Rielle, and Teresa Mann; Russell Baron (Laurence Ewashko).  George was predeceased by his grandson-in-law Gerard Thoms; his parents, Martin and Elizabeth (nee Labodi) Baron; and his siblings: Mary (Joe) Molnar, Elizabeth (Joe) Rendek, Julia (Bill) Rash, Steve (Magdalene) Baron, Martin Baron, Ann (John) Paydli, Joe (Hilda) Baron, John (Margaret) Baron, Mike Baron, Kay (Jeff) MacIntyre and Tony Baron and twin siblings in infancy. The Funeral Mass was offered at St. Benedict Roman Catholic Church, St. Benedict SK on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. celebrated by Fr. Colin Roy and concelebrated by Fr. Demetrius Wasylyniuk, OSB.  Interment followed at St. Benedict Roman Catholic Cemetery.  Memorial donations may be made to the Saskatchewan Lung Association or the St. Benedict Roman Catholic Cemetery Fund.

This Notice Is Courtesy Of
Schuler-Lefebvre Funeral Chapel - Humboldt, Saskatchewan
(306-682-4114)