Dwaine Glen Cassidy, born April 4, 1944 passed away

peacefully on February 25, 2025, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Dwaine is survived by his partner Jacqueline Rookes,

stepdaughter Brandy Mychan (Chris), granddaughter’s

Brianna Eshelby (Brandon), Mercedes, Pyper, great

granddaughter Harper and predeceased by his wife Carol

Cassidy and stepson Gabriel Kaminecki.

Dwaine will be laid to rest alongside his late wife and love of

his life on what would have been their 38th wedding

anniversary.

The following is a poem Dwaine’s current partner Jacqueline had found that Dwaine had

written for his wife Carol sometime after her passing:

Dwaine's Poem

Where ever I am, I will think of you,

In everything I see, everything I do

Wherever we were, in our past,

You will be there and my memory will last.

We spent our lives together

We will be together forever.

Think of me when you are gone

I will think of you all that long.

God has taken you at last

Now all your pain is past

We will be again as one

When my time here is done.

Dwaine’s life was shattered after the death of Carol and

looking back now and knowing more of what he went

through I did not understand how bad because I was

also grieving. I am glad with time we were able to get our

father-daughter relationship back.

If Jacqueline did not come into Dwaine’s life when she

did, I honestly do not believe Dwaine would have made it

to the age of eighty. Dwaine and Jacqueline started off as

friends and as the years passed their friendship grew

into a love for each other. Jacqueline is an amazing

woman who accepted Dwaine and his everlasting love

he had for his late wife Carol.

Dwaine came into my life as a stepdad around the age of four and raised me along with my

mom until I left home. Both Dwaine and my mom knew I had the potential to succeed and

always encouraged me to do the things I said I wanted to do. Dwaine got to witness or hear

about my successes and from what I hear always bragged to others about me which tells

me how proud he was. Dwaine also told me over the years that I am more of his daughter

than a stepdaughter. People say blood is thicker than water but, in this case, it is nurture

versus nature for I am a lot like him. Dwaine was also proud of his three grand-daughters

and would (even though money was tight) try to send something that showed it.

Dwaine had another life before meeting my mom but that is not my story to tell.

Dwaine had his flaws, but his best quality was the love he had for my mom.

Growing up with Dwaine I remember he loved fishing, gardening, reading with a bag of

chips or a nut mix with m&m’s and then falling a sleep on the chair with his book.

Dwaine taught my brother and I a before meal prayer “Good potatoes, good meat, I’m

hungry lets eat,” which I am sure was just to make us laugh.

One of my favorite memories was having a water fight in the house with Dwaine and my

mom which is not something I would have ever expected to do because I grew up in a clean

and orderly house.

One of Dwaine’s biggest passions in life was making homemade wine and he mastered

homemade crab apple wine, which made me give drinking wine another chance. Years

back when Dwaine stopped making wine, he passed on his supplies to me, and I thought

why not give it a shot and if it were not for that my friend and I would not be enjoying our

bachelor/bachelorette nights as much. Thank you, Dwaine, for passing your passion onto

me.

Dwaine, I will forever miss and love you.

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