It is with great sadness that we announce that on August 21, 2023, Randy Klassen passed away at the age of 66 years.
Randy will be forever missed and loved by those he survived: his wife Darlene, children Jeff, James, and Johanna, son-in-law Luc, daughter-in-law Ha, his mother Gabrielle, his sisters Marlene, Pauline, and Cathy, his grandchildren Sylus, Cooper, and Hudson (who lovingly knew him as ‘papa’), his in-laws Billy, Barb, Bob, Claxton, and Brian, several cousins, nieces and nephews, many great friends, and a granddaughter due in January. He is predeceased by his brother Larry and his father Leslie. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.
Randy was a proud veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, having served as a pilot from 1977 until 2005. In lieu of flowers, please send a donation to a branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.
Arrangements entrusted to Daley Family Funeral Home
'High Flight' by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air ....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.