It’s with unhappiness that we announce that John Kubik, beloved husband of Jean Kubik, father of Stephanie (Dan Toews), Lisa, Johnna (Doug McCallum) and John, grandfather of Alexa and Jakob Toews handed away with household by his facet on February 3, 2025, on the Chinook Regional Hospital.
John was born within the Galt Hospital to Martin and Marie Kubik on October 24, 1937. He was a primary technology Canadian, his mother and father having immigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia in 1927. He began his life on the Kubik household farm in Iron Springs, Alberta. In 1945, his father and his uncle Jerry bought a big swath of the Cameron Ranch southeast of Turin, Alberta. After his father’s premature passing in 1949 John left highschool, and on the age of 15, started his lifetime of farming. As a younger man he loved enjoying baseball, hockey, curling and fishing. He married Jean McLeod on his birthday in 1964 they usually raised their household on the prolonged household farming operation, Little Bow Farms, alongside along with his brother, Martin and household and his mom, Marie.
John cherished working the land, tinkering with and modifying farm gear and tending his Limousin cattle. He prided himself on his arrow straight crop rows, weed free fields and robust yields of wheat, barley and canola. He had a powerful work ethic, believed within the significance of excellent land stewardship and was all the time eager about methods to enhance farming.
In 1996, John and Jean retired to an acreage south of Lethbridge the place John raised cattle and llamas, saved a hay crop and tended a big backyard. He even made time for some golf, which he continued to play till his final yr. After downsizing to Lethbridge in 2012, he took up rock sharpening and jewellery making, joined a senior’s bowling league and continued to develop a big backyard, donating his extra produce to the native meals banks and soup kitchen. He cherished to learn, loved cooking and canning, in addition to numerous arts, crafts and inventive pursuits.
John valued and cherished his household. Whether or not he was teaching hockey, supporting our profession pursuits, lending a serving to hand with tasks or offering companionship to his siblings and growing old kin, John taught us to work exhausting, attempt for perfection and deal with each other. John had many associates together with his buddies on the McDonald’s espresso klatch, his devoted canine Scooter and their canine strolling group and his neighbours in the neighborhood of Six Mile Ridge. He was quiet, however gregarious and all the time appeared ahead to assembly previous and new associates and sharing tales.
John can be survived by his sister, Vlasta Upton, his brother-in-law, John Marko, many cousins, nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his mother and father, Martin and Marie Kubik, Jean’s mother and father, Gordon and Marjorie McLeod, sister Peggy Marko, brother Martin Kubik, sister-in-law Lillian Kubik and brothers-in-law Alex McLeod and Paul Upton.
John’s household will rejoice his life privately however encourage you to recollect him by donating to the Interfaith Meals Financial institution Society of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Meals Financial institution Society or Lethbridge Soup Kitchen. A particular thanks to Dr. Spence, Dr. Low and the nurses and respiratory therapists within the ICU at Chinook Regional Hospital who compassionately cared for John in his final week.
Cremation has been entrusted to Martin Brothers Funeral Chapel.
The Pebble in my Shoe
By Henry John Dietrich
I walked the trail
Every day and evening,
Explored its route
Each left and proper.
I felt the earth
My soles did contact,
Its pebbles sharp
They troubled a lot.
The forest darkish,
Its grasses tall,
All so massive
And me so small.
But within the wind
That fuels the air,
Part of me
Blows in all places.
From high and low,
Over land and sea,
My spirit soars
As I be happy.
To those that love me,
To all who care,
Have pleasure for me,
Don’t despair,
Till the day
After we unite,
Stroll your individual path,
Might it’s brilliant.
Embrace the love
Of all who be.
I’ll consider you,
As you – me.
To ship flowers
to the household or plant a tree
in reminiscence of John Kubik, please go to our floral retailer.
