Ovide Joseph Bighetty passed away peacefully at Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, with his family by his side, on Thursday, March 20, 2014, at the age of 44 years.
Ovide was born Friday, May 16, 1969 at The Pas, Manitoba.
Ovide was a one of a kind self-taught artist. He was a loving and caring person. He had a smile that would brighten your day and he loved to smile and laugh. His family was very important to him and he loved spending time with them. He enjoyed telling them stories or simply just watching movies. “I’d walk around the world for my family”, he’d say.
His hobbies were painting, reading or just to take a walk. If he said he was going for a walk it wasn’t just a walk around the block, it became a journey around the community stopping to talk or going house to house. He didn’t just stop in to say “hi” but also to tell a story. He loved to make people laugh by joking around and just being silly. He was never boring.
Ovide was kind hearted and outgoing. He will be missed by his family and friends. His love of life and his memory will live on through everyone who knew Ovide, especially his family.
Ovide Bighetty is a self-taught artist originally from Pukatawagan First Nation (‘Fishing Place’ in Cree) on the Canadian Shield of Northern Manitoba. He has been painting for most of his life. He has worked in many fields from the technology sector to logging and commercial fishing but art and painting have always been the center of his being.
Rest in paradise Ovide with your little angel Skye. We love you and you will be missed each and very day.
Ovide is survived by his loving wife Linda Colomb; his children Kyle, Justin, Destiny, Kimberly and Eileen; adopted son Tipiskaw Bighetty; his brothers John Gordon (Yvonne) Caribou and family, Joseph Harold Caribou and family; his beautiful sisters Louisa Sinclair and family, Joyce Nepinak and family, and Susan Caribou and family; nieces and nephews too numerous to mention, who he loved with all his heart and they were all important to him; his only surviving auntie Anna Sinclair; uncles Stanley (Emily) Bighetty, Theodore Bighettty. Bruno (Beverly) Bighetty, Keno Linklater and Mathew Fontaine; and brothers-in-law Napoleon Charlette and Terry Pashe; Ovide’s cousins and good friends too numerous to mention, he cherished every moment he spent with each one and loved them all equally.
Ovide was predeceased by his beautiful loving daughter Skye Bighetty; loving parents Simon and Janie Bighetty; sisters Maryanne Charlette, Carol Pashe and 1st baby sister Susan; grandparents George and Harriette Bighetty, Lazare and Martha Bighetty and Bert Nepinak who will be travelling with him on their journey to paradise; uncles Marcel Bighetty, Julien Bighetty, Frank Bighetty, Pierre Bighetty, Zenon Bighetty, Edward Bighetty, and Celestine Bighetty; and aunties Rosie (Marcel) Colomb, Harriette Linklater, Theresa (Norman) Dumas, Alice (Norman) Sinclair, Lillian McDonald, and Emma Fontaine.
WAKE SERVICE:
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Pukatawagan Youth Centre, Pukatawagan, Manitoba
FUNERAL SERVICE:
Friday, March 28, 2014 1:00 p.m.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Pukatawagan, Manitoba
Presider: Father Vijay Deivanayagum, O.M.I.
Assistants: Flora Grieves, Hilda Francois, Mary Ann Dumas
INTERMENT:
Sacred Heart Cemetery, Pukatawagan, Manitoba
PALLBEARERS:
Dieter, Justin, Ken, Pete,
Ernie, Corey, Bagoo (Roy),
Douglas, Norman, Daniel
HONORARY PALLBEARERS:
All of Ovide’s Family and Friends
If friends so desire, donations to the Native National Alcohol Drug Abuse Program, Pukatawagan, Manitoba, would be appreciated by Ovide’s Family.