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Mom enjoyed singing, cooking, gardening, playing cards, baking, watching curling, family dinners and spending time with her children and grandchildren, especially attending their hockey games. Mom loved making and eating perogies and sharing her smile with everyone.

Mom went very peacefully on March 27, 2024, at 6:50 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Home in Melville; she was 97 years of age.

Elsie is survived by son Garry Hahn and grandson Michael (Jody) Hahn and great-grandchildren Harley (Lindsay), Magnum and Maverick Hahn and granddaughter Michelle; daughter Beverly (Jim) Daunheimer, grandchild Kellie (Mark) Kopeck and great-grandson Cruze, grandchild Jackie (Chad) Rutzki and great-grandchild Kennedy (Gia) Ottenbreit, grandson Tucker and granddaughter Paxten; son Brent (Lynn) Hahn and grandchildren Chad and Melisa and great-grandchildren Madison and Kiara, grandchild Bobbi-Lyn (Blair) Weiman and great-grandchildren Maggie, Molly and Mathew; son Garnet (Denise) Hahn, grandchild Julie (Tyler) Bierwagen and great-grandchildren Triton, Chase and Ryder, grandchild Brady (Bailey) and great-grandchild Luca, grandchild Tyler (Katie) and great-grandchildren Rowyn and Benson; one brother, William Hauser of Ontario; sisters-in-law Evelyn Hauser and Elsie Hahn; and many nieces, nephews and friends.

She was predeceased by her parents, Henry and Mary; her husband, Rudy; great-grandson Cooper Hahn (child of Chad Hahn); eleven siblings, Fred (Erna), John (Joyce), Ed (Lil), Albert (Joan), Wilbert (Erla), Joe (Olga), Jack (Alice), Walter, Martha (1917), Martha in 1978 (Abe) and Mary (Art) Schindel; and sister-in-law Mavis Hauser.