Chad Vellacott Memorial Education Fund

Chad's postponed funeral occurred at 3pm (Sask. time) on Sun. Feb. 27th at Erindale Alliance Church in Saskatoon. The funeral service was live-streamed at http://www.erindalealliance.ca/podcasts/media/2022-02-20-chad-vellacott-funeral-service-feb-27-3-00pm

Also please inform others wishing to give to the Memorial Fund that if they are more comfortable donating through an alternate channel, they can, through this site, send a message requesting an email address or mailing address, to convey an e-transfer or cheque, whereupon it is promptly transferred into the Memorial Fund. [We can't give a full email address on this site or it will be automatically redacted.] *To be clear, GoFundMe is faithfully conveying every single dollar to the Memorial Fund account.

OBITUARY
Chad Vellacott tragically deceased in the out-of-doors at the new moon, Tuesday Feb. 1, 2022, at 42 years of age. He is the dearly-beloved, first-born son of long-term, staunchly pro-life and socially conservative former Canadian Member of Parliament, Maurice Vellacott, and his wife Mary Vellacott. Chad's paternal grandparents were Ed & Mary Vellacott of Quill Lake, Sask. His maternal grandparents were George and Mary Guenter of Hague, Sask. His younger siblings are sister Lisa Little (Paul), Josh, and Jay. Lisa is a piano teacher, Teen-Aid Educator and a Saskatoon area coordinator for the international Bible Study Fellowship organization. Josh is regrettably affected by full-blown schizophrenia and cared for by his parents. Jay is a grad student at Liberty University in Virginia.

 

Chad trusted Jesus Christ as his Savior from the penalty of sin as a youngster and was baptized as a believer in his teenage years. He had a good sense of humor and a heart for others. After he got his driver's license, he would load up the family van with other high schoolers to take to the Saskatoon Lakeview Free Methodist youth group. Chad was a brilliant 99.02 % grad of Saskatoon's Mount Royal High School in Saskatoon, where he had been a student leader, a comedic school announcer and drama enthusiast. Chad then went on to complete an undergrad degree at Briercrest College, where he also commenced a Master's degree. Chad was a drummer at church and Briercrest College. Chad was a summer-time Christian camp counsellor and enjoyed canoeing and the out-of-doors. Chad had an inventive mind with constructing things around the acreage, was savvy with computers, took a great interest in God's handiwork in the heavens and passed that on to his children.

 

In the last several months, he was apart from his wife and their 11 children in southern Ontario, so because of Chad's negligible estate, you are invited  to donate to cover a flight home for his 22-year-old brother in post-secondary education in the US, as well as flights for some of Chad's family to come from southern Ontario to his Saskatoon funeral at 3pm on Sunday, Feb. 27th at Erindale Alliance Church, plus what may be considerable expense for future educational endeavors by his 11 children ranging in age from 19 down to 2 years. Because of  Chad's schizophrenia diagnosis (which he resisted), donations can also be made to the Schizophrenia Society of Saskatchewan or any other Schizophrenia Society, in memory of  Chad.

 

We thought we'd have more time with him in the here and now to effect the recovery and reconciliations. Chad's parents, his wife, his siblings, his children, his aunts and uncles are heart-broken at his shortened life and look forward to that "Grand Reunion" with him some day. He is now completely healed in body and mind in the presence of His Redeemer. In the midst of this long, dark "valley of the shadow of death," we so much look forward to holding him in our arms again.