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 Kazmir Walter Novitsky 1926-2009 Kazmir Walter Novitsky was born on the farm in Radway, Alberta September 12, 1926, the youngest of three children born to Henry and Anastasia Novitsky. Kasey Attended Shakespere school, a two room school in the Weasel Creek community. Kasey completed grade 10, which was the highest grade offered. He grew up on a farm and learned farming from his father. As a child Kasey played baseball, loved comic books. Ukrainian dance and of course, enjoyed teasing his older sisters. Kasey was musically inclined. He played the mandolin and had a great singing voice, in fact as a boy he was invited to sing in the school choir. As a boy Kasey was fascinated with airplanes. Kasey’s mom sent him into Radway to sell the farm cream. Henry and Anastasia were working in the yard later in the day when an airplane came flying very low overhead. At this point Anastasia was worried it was going to crash into the farm. Henry laughed and told Anastasia not to worry and that it was her cream cheque flying overhead. It turns out there just happened to be a man selling airplane rides in Radway and Kasey couldn’t resist. Kasey met Olga at a friend’s wedding dance in 1948 when Olga was 19 and Kasey was 22. They married in 1949. They had a traditional Ukrainian wedding in Radway which took 2 days. Randy Novitsky was born a year later. They would have been married 60 years in October. Kasey loved to dance and he and Olga enjoyed attending many community dances. Homestead land was available in the Bonanza area. Kasey and his dad Henry spent summers in Bonanza clearing the homestead and then in 1952 Kasey and his family moved to Bonanza permanently to the farm where they lived until moving into Dawson Creek a few years ago. Kasey helped with various community building projects (school, church, skating rink, hall). Kasey’s water truck would often be seen flooding the local skating rink for the community kids. Then one day Pacific oilfield came to drill on Kasey and Olga’s land and Kasey became one of the first oilfield contractors in the Bonanza area. Kasey enjoyed over 50 years in the oilfield business. This year K. Novitsky Contracting received the People’s Choice award for Best Place to work. Kazmir and Olga enjoyed driving trips through Alberta and British Columbia, and into Alaska, seeing the countryside and of course, checking out the crops everywhere they went. Kasey is survived by his loving wife Olga, his son Randy and wife Lois, granddaughter Rhonda and her husband Cam, great-grandchildren Reiss, Rory; his grandson Dennis and his wife Karlynn and great-granddaughter Rachael ; and his two sisters Kay Richardson and Frances Shaw. A funeral service was held on March 2, 2009 at the Bergeron Funeral Chapel, Dawson Creek, British Columbia, officiated by Reverend Marilyn Carroll. A private family interment followed in the Brookside Cemetery. |
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