And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need
a caretaker."
So God made a farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all
day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past
midnight at a meeting of the school board."
So God made a farmer.
"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle
enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame
cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife's
done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real
soon -- and mean it."
So God made a farmer.
God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt. And
watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody
who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a
hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe
scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour
week by Tuesday noon, then, pain'n from 'tractor back,' put in another seventytwo hours."
So God made a farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the
hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when
he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place.
So God made a farmer.
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet
gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets,
who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It
had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners.
Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant
and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a
hard week's work with a five-mile drive to church.
"Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing,
who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son
says he wants to spend his life 'doing what dad does.'"
So God made a farmer.
In Loving Memory Of
Gordon Wilmot
1936 - 2017
In Loving Memory Of
Gordon Malcolm Wilmot
July 6, 1936 – March 29, 2017
80 Years
Funeral Service
Tuesday, April 4th, 2017 at 2:00 PM
Garrick Community Center
Garrick, Saskatchewan
Officiating: Rev. Lorna King
Eulogist:
Morris Nycholat
Eileen & Jean Marie Fogarty
Scripture Reader: Taylor Dobson & Calvin Nickel
Honorary Pallbearers: “All that knew and loved him”
Urn Bearers: Jill & Erik Wilmot
Melody Of Hymns:
Ruth Keeping
Memorial Book Attendant:
Joan & Hal Birkett
Ruth & Don Scott
Usher: Dennis Scott & Bill Balcombe
Interment: Garrick Community Cemetery
Garrick, SK
Following the interment, family and friends
are invited to share in a time
of fellowship in the Garrick Community Center.
Memorial tributes may be made to
Garrick Community Center
Box 44 Garrick, SK S0J 0Z0 or
Charity of your Choice
Gordon Wilmot was born in Kinistino on July 6, 1936 and grew up on a
farm in the Garrick area and lived there for most of his life. Except for
working for Gunner Mines for two winters and a grain elevator for a
year, he farmed, managed a beef herd along with pigs, chickens and
turkeys as well as a dairy herd, delivering milk to the Garrick residents
for many years. Later he was part owner of a saw mill which supplied all
the lumber for our house built in 1993.
In 1965 Gordon married the love of his life, Amanda Peters. They were
married on November 6, 1965 in the White Fox United Church.
He had a strong commitment to farming and the organizations in this
area.
He was on the White Fox Credit Union board for twenty-nine years
serving as chair for a few years and a member of the credit committee
for most of his time on the Board. Recently he was honoured to receive
the order of Merit from the Diamond North Credit Union for his years of
service to the Credit Union.
His commitment to community was evident as he was on the Garrick
Cemetery committee for 12 years, community hall building committee,
the Garrick curling club, the Garrick Co-op Board, the Pineland Co-op
Board, the Garrick History Book committee as well as a member of the
Torch River Farmers’ Union.
His participating in community organizations gave him great pleasure
and he offered his support wherever he saw the need. He enjoyed
playing ball, curling and watching sports on TV.
When the land was sold, woodworking became his second ‘job’. He
made several hundred sets of TV tables along with tables, bowls and
other crafts.
He was predeceased by his parents, William and Jean Wilmot, a sister,
Norma, many uncles and aunts. He is survived by his wife Amanda,
sister Shirley, brother Bill and family, brother-in-law Harry (Laura) Peters
and family and many cousins nieces, nephews and friends.
 Rest in peace.