Daniel Sedgwick

This story began in Edmonton on May 19, 1957, and ended too soon on December 13, 2025.  His Dad was working at the pulp mill in Hinton and that's how his life in Hinton started at the tender age of 6 weeks.

Life was lived, dreamed, fulfilled, and shared here. He was content as a kid to play with the neighbourhood kids on the sand lots across the street, later his contentment came from holding a fishing rod and camping with buddies at fish creek where his dad would drop them off. A few years passed and he added moose hunting to his list of outdoor fun. He preferred bush time to bar time. He decided school wasn't where he needed to be and with his dads help started in the wood room at the pulp mill before his 18th birthday. He always liked that he was the youngest person ever hired there and that was where he stayed until May 12, 2012, when he retired just before his 55th birthday.  Yard clean up to supervisor position in his 38 years there. Completed his GED and a pulp and paper course on his own. With his paychecks he bought his first car - a 75 white Pontiac Grand Am - and a few speeding tickets. Followed by his first home in Sunset Trailer court. Skip ahead a couple years and a blind date with a gal from Ponoka; well, first came love, then came marriage, then came a baby carriage. Dan and Charlotte married Aug 27, 1977, then a daughter Leah and a son Colin.

He had many interests over the years, golfing, gold panning, mountain sledding, rock hounding (don't ask how many rocks are around here),  quadding, shovelling and maintaining the beaver boardwalk, and finally getting into mystery lake with Reg. Tackling home reno's such as a 24 ft I beam in the basement so that a 5 x 10 pool table would be centered for lots of hours of fun. Installing tiles on the main floor with some help from a retired professional and Charlotte. We fondly started to refer to the tiling job as floor play. To install a solar hot water system that ran from 2006-2019. To say the least for how he and buddies got a very heavy wood stove in the basement without any catastrophes, hauled 3 large, petrified rocks from a creek with a car hood and determination. Fishing graduated from his dads 12 ft springbok to a custom-made 18'5 ft red fibreglass boat that was seen on Babine Lake many, many hours. If you went fishing with him seldom did you get skunked. He enjoyed sharing the 5 1/2 ft long halibut story. (You've all heard I'm sure) Camping started in a tent – truck camper- 5th wheel toy hauler. Wore out quite a few decks of cards over the years, with card tricks and games. Can't forget his love of baseball he got from his mom. After 5 losses even the scalpers told us to go home at Toronto Blue Jay Games. The strangers we stopped to help on an evening trip to Valemount and used a jack all to boost their car. Nobody had booster cables. Hence the nickname MacGyver. He never got lost, could find his way to and from anywhere. Had mischief in his soul, would pull some fast ones. Ask Dave Landry, a coworker. Told Charlotte all about the bundle splier on the sludge pump, yea right and many other fantastic lines of malarkey. Can't forget static electricity lessons from 3 ft away.

He loved his family with his whole being. Taught Leah how to do an oil change; Colin how to ride that snow machine in the mountains. He gave Charlotte confidence and courage.  He just left too soon. His grandchildren Victoria and Kaizen didn't get the best of him.

Some of the many people that will miss him are his brother David and Doreen and family; sister Laurie and Glenn and family; sister Rose and Cory; Mark's family Shannon, Curtis & Family, and Sean & Clark; sisters-in-law Heather and Zona; and nephew Norm. His brother Mark and parents Kervyn/Curly and Dot predeceased him.

Dementia - Primary Progressive Aphasia showed its unwanted face in 2017 and life changed from then on.  The last 8 months of his life were in Centennial Center in Ponoka, because the disease had taken so much from him. The staff that became his, and my, temporary family will be forever in our memories.

Being apart was incredibly difficult. My 23 trips to see my sweetie were eased by friends Cathy and Grant Jorgenson who gave me comfort, shelter, laughter, and hugs when needed.  Dan's great friend Keith Wilson frequently visited him in Ponoka. Thank you, Keith.  

On a warm day we will gather with family and invited friends to send him off in the usual noisy way we Sedgwick’s do things. Even though he would silently protest by sneaking away, we know of no other way to show love and say goodbye. 

Just so you know Dan, we weren't done with you yet.

We'll try to honor your belief   If you don't write it down it isn't worth anything.

Just in case you didn't know he LIKED MOOSE!

Charlotte, Leah and Mark, Colin, Pam Victoria, and Kaizen

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