Lai Lai Lions
Don’t let the bright yellow paint job on the lions at the Lai Lai Restaurant fool you… they are my uncle Robert Gaede’s lions too.
My photos (circa 2014)
Lai Lai LionsDon’t let the bright yellow paint job on the lions…
Category: Robert Gaede
Just MarriedThe first time I saw these photos I was sad my Uncle…
Just Married
The first time I saw these photos I was sad my Uncle Bobby and Aunt Audrey had to have their car towed on their wedding day.
As it turns out, there was nothing at all wrong with the car. This was a traditional rural fundraiser for the newly married couple.
lauragaederusswurm: Laura’s baby photo is actually a detail…
Laura’s baby photo is actually a detail blown up from this snapshot taken with her mother, Rosalia Adeline Tietz Gaede and her brother, Robert Gaede.
Robert (Bobby) and Laura were the last children born to Rosalia and Franz, and the only two born in Canada.
My mother’s family were Russian refugees during the Russian Revolution. Only the two youngest kids ~ Mom and her brother Bobby ~ were born in Canada. I think Bob (on the left) would have been about 4 years old in this photo.
lauragaederusswurm: Laura’s last remaining sibling, Robert Gaede…
Laura’s last remaining sibling, Robert Gaede passed away on Saturday.
Gaede, Robert “Bob” A.O.C.A. After a long and very productive life, Bob Gaede has “slipped the surly bonds of earth” and set up his easel in a better place.
He is now reunited with his beloved wife Audrey (2016) and much missed siblings Olga, Frieda, Laura, Frank, Henry, and Rudy. He leaves behind his much loved children Jennifer Snider, Deb Gaede, and Rod (Eveline) Gaede. Lovingly remembered by his grandchildren James Gaede (Emily), Chris Snider (Tati), Jordan Gaede (fiancée Vallery), Nick Gaede (Tara), and Jackie Snider. Bob was also blessed with five great-grandchildren and one on the way. He had a special place in his heart for his nieces and their families, Elaine (Bert) Meng, Judy (Lee) Bell, and the late Sharon (Jack) Soeder.
Bob’s passion in life was his art. He had many stories of his enjoyable years in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art. His memories of his beloved village of Conestogo were often portrayed in his landscapes and his annual Christmas cards. In later years, Dad developed a liking for cats and he will be missed by his feline friend Jimmy.
Memorial visitation will take place on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 from 7-9 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 11 a.m. at St. Matthew’s Ev. Lutheran Church, 131 Flax Mill Dr., Conestogo. Interment of cremated remains in Winterbourne Cemetery will follow.
Thank you to his family at St. Matthew’s for their visits, prayers and concern. In Bob’s memory, donation to St. Matthew’s Ev. Lutheran Church in Conestogo or the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre would be appreciated.
“For I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
—Robert Frost
My Uncle Bobby ~ Robert Gaede ~ was a talented artist.
Back in the day Bob studied at the Ontario College of Art alongside a young Peter Etril Snyder. (Bobby graduated; Mr Snyder didn’t.) Bob was always very supportive of artists in the family, as my brother Lance, sister Liana (also an OCA alumni), and he even liked the West Montrose motif sign I designed for my husband’s political campaign.
Concrete lions molded from Robert Gaede’s original sculpture can be found around Ontario. This pair stands on guard in front of the Huether Hotel’s Lion Brewery in Waterloo, Ontario. I don’t know how accessible these lions are today (amidst the LRT construction); my photographs were taken in 2012.
This morning is Uncle Bobby’s memorial service .
Thursday, October 12, 2017
11:00 a.m.
St. Matthew’s Evangelical. Lutheran Church
131 Flax Mill Drive
Conestogo, ON
Interment in
Winterbourne Presbyterian Cemetery
will follow.
lauragaederusswurm: Laura’s last remaining sibling, Robert Gaede…
Laura’s last remaining sibling, Robert Gaede passed away on Saturday.
Gaede, Robert “Bob” A.O.C.A. After a long and very productive life, Bob Gaede has “slipped the surly bonds of earth” and set up his easel in a better place.
He is now reunited with his beloved wife Audrey (2016) and much missed siblings Olga, Frieda, Laura, Frank, Henry, and Rudy. He leaves behind his much loved children Jennifer Snider, Deb Gaede, and Rod (Eveline) Gaede. Lovingly remembered by his grandchildren James Gaede (Emily), Chris Snider (Tati), Jordan Gaede (fiancée Vallery), Nick Gaede (Tara), and Jackie Snider. Bob was also blessed with five great-grandchildren and one on the way. He had a special place in his heart for his nieces and their families, Elaine (Bert) Meng, Judy (Lee) Bell, and the late Sharon (Jack) Soeder.
Bob’s passion in life was his art. He had many stories of his enjoyable years in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art. His memories of his beloved village of Conestogo were often portrayed in his landscapes and his annual Christmas cards. In later years, Dad developed a liking for cats and he will be missed by his feline friend Jimmy.
Memorial visitation will take place on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 from 7-9 p.m. at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, 62 Arthur St. S., Elmira.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 11 a.m. at St. Matthew’s Ev. Lutheran Church, 131 Flax Mill Dr., Conestogo. Interment of cremated remains in Winterbourne Cemetery will follow.
Thank you to his family at St. Matthew’s for their visits, prayers and concern. In Bob’s memory, donation to St. Matthew’s Ev. Lutheran Church in Conestogo or the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre would be appreciated.
“For I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
—Robert Frost
My Uncle Bobby ~ Robert Gaede ~ was a talented artist.
Back in the day Bob studied at the Ontario College of Art alongside a young Peter Etril Snyder. (Bobby graduated; Mr Snyder didn’t.) Bob was always very supportive of artists in the family, as my brother Lance, sister Liana (also an OCA alumni), and he even liked the West Montrose motif sign I designed for my husband’s political campaign.
Concrete lions molded from Robert Gaede’s original sculpture can be found around Ontario. This pair stands on guard in front of the Huether Hotel’s Lion Brewery in Waterloo, Ontario. I don’t know how accessible these lions are today (amidst the LRT construction); my photographs were taken in 2012.
This morning is Uncle Bobby’s memorial service .
Thursday, October 12, 2017
11:00 a.m.
St. Matthew’s Evangelical. Lutheran Church
131 Flax Mill Drive
Conestogo, ON
Interment in
Winterbourne Presbyterian Cemetery
will follow.