DONATE TODAY Every day a person is given a palliative end-of-life diagnosis. This is scary and can leave them feeling alone and with nowhere to turn.By donating today, you can ensure they have a unique and dignified end-of-life care experience at no cost to the family.Will you give today?“Shayne was at peace here,” explained [...]
Walter Wilde’s only wish was to die at home. But as his cancer progressed and a bout of pneumonia put him in hospital, he needed more care than his family could provide. That’s when his daughter, Julie, started researching hospices in the Edmonton area. When she found Pilgrims Hospice Society, she knew it [...]
DONATE TODAY I am writing to you today to ask you for help with a great need in our community. Each and every day a person is given a palliative end-of-life diagnosis. This is scary. They feel as though they are alone with no one and nowhere to turn. By making a donation [...]
Almost a year ago, Patty and her brother Barry took part in the Hike for Pilgrims Hospice for the first time. Forming the team ‘Roxy’s Warriors’ with 15 or so other friends and family members, each one hiked with a photo of Roxy on the back of their t-shirts, honouring [...]
Seung-il (Ken) Kang lived his final six days of life as a resident at the Roozen Family Hospice Centre. His wife Aeng-Soon (Anne), and daughters Gloria and Grace, found the experience so life changing that they came back several months later to share their story with us. Ken was a [...]
On behalf of all of us here at Pilgrims Hospice Society and the Roozen Family Hospice Centre, we want to send a thank you to our donors.
With her trademark upbeat and humorous spirit, 89-year-old Dorrie made quite the announcement during her tour of the Roozen Family Hospice Centre: “I’m not leaving, I’m coming here!” After falling in her bathroom a month later and becoming too ill for her best friend Eleanor to keep looking after her, [...]
With sparkling blue eyes and white-blonde hair, Lana was a beautiful woman. But it was her inner light that attracted her husband, Karim. “She was a star. Just a bright star,” he says. Marrying in 2009 and welcoming their son, Avery, into the world in 2014, Lana and Karim never [...]
