JOE BACHMIER

JOE BACHMIER 1931 ~ 2025
Joe Bachmier was the fourth child born to Joseph and Regina Bachmier on June 28, 1931. On June 4, 1966, he married Lorraine Hagel. Then on June 4, 1968, their son Neil was born.
Joe and Lorraine lived and farmed on the Bachmier Family Farm in Fox Valley, Saskatchewan, raising cattle, chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese until Lorraine’s passing on May 3, 1996.
After Lorraine’s passing, Joe stayed and farmed on the family farm with Neil right up until his passing on June 14, 2025, at the age of 93.
Joe loved farming, especially in the mornings. He would make his lunch and coffee and head out to work summer fallow. It needs to be noted that it wasn’t very often he would forget his snuff. If he did forget it, he would call Neil and tell him to bring it out. He loved combining! Neil said that Joe would stay out combining for hours. Joe would say “it’s not hard driving up and down a field combining.” He would always make sure to take one hour off for lunch, then back out to the combine he would go. He ran the combine right up until he was 91 years old.
Joe also loved working with Cattle. He would always help with roundup at home for brandings and getting them to the pastures. He also enjoyed going to Maple Creek often to watch the cattle sales and where he got to know a lot of people in the community.
Joe and Neil also liked to take their trips to Havre and Great Falls after seeding and then after harvest as well. It was a great break and getaway after each of the busy farming seasons that they both enjoyed so much.
To add to the list of things Joe enjoyed was driving the side by side. In February, he would say to Neil how he couldn’t wait to drive the side by side. And when it would warm up in the spring, he would be driving the side by side. He loved it!
As mentioned earlier, Joe always had snuff with him, but the time came when he had to quit, so slowly he did. It was then that he switched to Tic Tac’s, and he loved them.
Neil had bought Joe a cane about a month before he passed. He had suggested to Joe that he use the cane to help him with walking. Well, Joe used the cane to get up out of his chair and took it into his room and came back without it and said, “I don’t need that, that’s for old people”.
Years back, Joe broke his ankle and needed surgery in Medicine Hat. From Medicine Hat, he had to stay in Maple Creek at the Maple Creek Lodge for six weeks until his last cast came off. Joe was told by the doctor to wear an air boot for two weeks. After that, he could wear ordinary shoes again. So, Joe and Neil came home, and Joe went into the house and took off the Air Boot. Neil told him he had to wear the boot for 2 weeks and Joe said, “That darn thing is garbage!” He put his regular shoes on and that was it.
That same spring, Neil went to a branding. As Neil was driving home, he could see dust in the field near home. Neil thought to himself, it couldn’t possibly be Joe in the tractor. Well, sure enough, it was Joe. He was just finishing up and met Neil at the house. When Neil asked him how he got to the tractor, Joe said he drove the side by side out to the tractor and got in and started working summer fallow because it needed to be worked.
That was Joe. He didn’t like to sit still. He loved to keep busy and spend time with his son, Neil. Joe lived a full, long life because he always put family, faith, love, and hard work first and he valued those until the day he passed.
Family and friends will gather for Prayers at FOX VALLEY – ST. MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH on Thursday, June 19, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. The funeral mass will be celebrated in the FOX VALLEY – ST. MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. with Fr. Prince Sarpong celebrant. Interment will take place in the Fox Valley Community Cemetery. To leave a message of condolence you may visit www.pattisonfuneralhome.com.
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