WOLFE: Brian Walter Nov. 12, 1929 - Oct. 3, 2014 Son, brother, uncle, great-uncle and friend, Brian passed away recently at the age of 84 on a farm homestead near Imperial. Brian Walter Wolfe was born on November 12, 1929 on the family homestead. He was the second child of four of Walter Harrison Wolfe and Mary Ellen Wolfe (nee Hunt). He received his education at the Imperial School and in 1953 he travelled to Edmonton to complete a Diesel Engineering Course. Brian was very mechanical and the mechanics of how things worked fascinated him his whole life. His inventiveness and creativity allowed him to not only repair a wide variety of machines, it also enabled him to craft and build equipment of his own design. A farmer to the end, Brian spent most of his life on the family farm that his father homesteaded in 1906, living life on his own terms. Brian had a deep fondness, interest and respect for the natural world. In the early 1970’s he became interested in organic farming, a practice that he was to continue for nearly 30 years. He was interested in horticulture and tended to the fruit trees that he had planted, bringing gifts of fresh plums, crab apples, saskatoons and raspberries to his nieces when they visited. They did not have access to such things in Winnipeg. Brian loved to find the weird and wonderful in nature and would bring unusual tree and plant specimens to his nieces. With a gleam in his eye he would dare them to guess what the strange-looking samples were. One particularly memorable visit for his nieces was when he brought a cardboard box into his parents’ house that contained a live baby bunny. His nieces never knew just what was going to be in those cardboard boxes that were always carefully packed into the back of his International truck. Brian had a deep fondness for his nieces, great-nieces and great-nephews. He never failed to remember their birthdays and always thought of them at Christmas. They shall always remember his generosity. Brian had an endless curiosity and interest in aviation and space. He loved to read and later watch shows that explained everything from the earliest unmanned space rockets to the recent exploration of the surface of Mars. He introduced his young nieces to the moon with his slides. Brian could also be a bit of a daredevil – in the winter of 1957 he travelled to Regina to obtain his pilot’s licence (without his mother’s knowledge or consent). After obtaining his pilot’s licence, he treated his twenty year old brother and first passenger, to a ride from Regina to Imperial. His baby brother wanted to take pictures, so Brian did everything to keep the plane as steady as possible so his brother could get good photos. He had cut the throttle and their Aunt and Uncle, who witnessed them, panicked because they feared they were going to crash, but this was a routine maneuver and Brian had no fear of crashing. Brian was one of the most independent, uncompromising, private and principled men wrapped around a heart of gold. He will be dearly missed and remembered in our hearts. Brian is predeceased by his parents, Walter and Mary, and his elder sister Sarah. Brian will be greatly missed by sister Doris of Watrous, his brother Alan and sister-in-law Sheila of Winnipeg, his niece Corinne Wolfe-Betz of Toronto (Vaughn Betz), great-nieces, Victoria, Katherine and Emily, his niece Laura of Winnipeg, great-niece Madeline Paulic and great-nephews Owen Paulic and Ben Paulic. In keeping with his wishes, a private gravesite memorial service will be held at a later date.