Lives of COVID-19 victims serve as stark reminder of pandemic's ongoing toll in Manitoba

They were parents, grandparents, children, and cousins. CBC News has compiled a list of the names of 100 Manitobans who have died as a result of COVID-19, as reported in media stories or published in obituaries.

CBC has compiled a list of 100 people lost to COVID-19 a fraction of the more than 1,000 Manitobans lost

Cameron MacLean CBC News Posted: May 16, 2021 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 16, 2021

A memorial along the Assiniboine River trail in Winnipeg in February honoured the hundreds of Manitobans who had died of COVID-19 to that point. More than 1,000 have now lost their lives to the illness. (Travis Golby/CBC)

They were parents, grandparents, children, and cousins. Some worked on the front lines in health care, others worked essential service jobs in grocery stores, but all filled a vital role in the lives of the friends and family who they left behind when COVID-19 took them.

CBC News has compiled a list of the names of 100 of the more than 1,000 Manitobans who have died as a result of COVID-19, as reported in media stories or published in obituaries.

The illness caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 claimed its first victim inManitoba on March 26,2020. It took nearly eight months for Manitoba to record its first 100 deaths and a little more than six months to record 900 more.

This list represents a small fraction of that staggering loss.Hereyou'll find links to stories and obituaries, with more information about each person.

Take some time to read about the lives of some of the people Manitoba has lost over the past 14 months, and let their stories serve as a reminder of the terrible tragedy that this pandemic has wrought on this province.

Brandon

Alexandrine (Sandra) Marie Ross: Died on Nov. 30, 2020,at the age of 70.

Dauphin

Elmer Raymond Farmer: Died on Nov. 18, 2020, at the age of 97.

Dauphin River First Nation

Ida Beardy: Died at the age of 83.

Lorraine Stagg: Died on Oct. 30, 2020, at the age of 69.
Stanford Sumner
Walter Anderson
Cheryl Stagg
Edward Stagg
Christine Sumner: Died on Nov. 17, 2020, at the age of 81.

The tiny community of Dauphin River First Nation was devastated last December, after losing seven people to COVID-19 over two months. Pictured from left to right are Lorraine Stagg, Ida Beardy, Stanford Sumner, Walter Anderson. On bottom left are Cheryl Stagg, Edward Stagg, and Christine Sumner who all died from complications due to COVID-19. (Facebook)

Emerson

Elsie Goetz: Died on April 25, 2021, at the age of 103.

Fisher River Cree Nation

Jenn Garson Sinclair: Died on Nov. 16, 2020, at the age of 38.

Jenn Garson Sinclair, 38, was the youngest person to die from COVID-19 in Manitoba at the time of her death on Nov. 16, 2020. (Conrad Garson/Facebook)

Gilbert Plains

Walter Hyrchuck: Died on May 12, 2020, at the age of 90.

Oakbank

Gerald Ziprick: Died on Dec. 16, 2020, at the age of 85.

Gerald Ziprick, 85, shown here in hospital in early 2020, died at the Kin Place personal care home Dec. 16 after contracting COVID-19. His family says it was hard to know that his symptoms were connected to COVID, since his illness gave him similar physical pain. (Submitted by Nancy Ziprick Baert)

Lisa Marie Zaretski: Died on Dec. 24, 2020, at the age of 47.

Opaskwayak Cree Nation

Garry Darwin Ross: Died on Dec. 2, 2020, at the age of 54.

Garry Ross was a proud Cree man with a deep connection to his language and the land, his family said. Ross died of COVID-19 on Dec. 2, 2002, at the age of 54. (Submitted by Rhonda Ross)

Ste. Anne

Monique Buote: Died on Nov. 3, 2020, at the age of 55.
Perry Geoffery Buote: Died on Nov. 19, 2020, at the age of 57.

Steinbach

Gordon Denis Gillespie: Died on Jan. 29, 2021, at the age of 83.

Winnipeg

Carmela Finkel (Shragge): Died on Oct. 9, 2020, at the age of 87.
Jerry Clifford Stasiuk: Died on Oct. 17, 2020, at the age of 73.
Herman B. Froese: Died on Oct. 20, 2020, at the age of 85.
Gwendolyn Faith Nelko: Died on Oct.24, 2020, at the age of 81.
Hilde Mock: Died on Oct. 25, 2020, at theage of 84.

Hilde and Robert Mock, seen in their wedding photo taken in Einbeck, West Germany, in 1956. Hilde was predeceased by her husband in 2011. (Submitted by Connie and Richard Pope)

Sigrun Juliana (Julie) Zatorsky (Goodman): Diedon Oct. 30, 2020, at the age of 94.
Esther Shuster: Died on Oct. 31, 2020, at theage of 87.
Steve Hanchuk: Died on Nov. 2, 2020, at the age of 82.
Donna Elaine O'Connell: Died on Nov. 11, 2020, at the ageof 69.
Lionel (Leo) Clarke: Died on Nov. 5, 2020, at the age of 92.
Brenda Gregory: Died on Nov. 6, 2020, at the age of 80.
Betty Jean Hutchinson: Died on Nov. 6, 2020, at the age of 87.