February 6, 1963 – July 3, 2023
We are heartbroken to announce the sudden tragic passing of our father Melville McIntyre on July 3, 2023 at the age of 60.
Mel leaves behind his Daughters, Trish (Abel), Tabitha (Randy) and Son Chadwick (Michelle) grandchildren Sky-Lee (Tyler), Tyler, Paige, Vaughn, Marisol, Dixie, Zander and Marcos; great grandchildren Emmery, Bella and Bryson; sisters Shirley Ramsey (Doug), Cheryl-Dawn Wiebe; brothers Gordon McIntyre and Will Paget; sister in law Patricia Thompson and special friend Sherri Mayne; many nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncle and friends.
Mel is predeceased by his wife Shelley, mother Ann, father Mel, brother Les, sister Lynn, father in law Orville and mother in law Annabelle.
Mel married Shelley in 1981, had Trisha in 1982, Tabitha in 1984 and Chadwick in 1986. Mel became a Papa for the first time in 1998. Mel loved his family very much, he would do anything for them. Mel was a loving, caring, energetic, enthusiastic, courageous, funny, intelligent, inspiring, stubborn, and supportive man who would help out anyone in need.
Mel worked for the City of Winnipeg for 33 years until his recent retirement in February 2023.
Mel loved to spend time with his family, whether it was going to Winnipeg Beach, Tinker Town, fishing, baseball, football, hockey, fireworks, sitting around a fire, going to the Assiniboia Downs, playing cards, playing board and lawn games, visiting his nephew and niece Jim, Loreen and children, spending time with his nephew Shane (Crow) and his girlfriend Kim. The list is never ending.
There is so much that we can say about dad that we don’t know where to begin, he was a devoted husband to Shelley for 35 years, a wonderful father to his 3 children, amazing papa to his 8 grandchildren, fabulous great papa to his 3 great grandchildren. He has numerous nieces and nephews he was close to along with his friends from work. He was loved by all.
Growing up with Mel as our father was amazing, he taught us how to walk, ride a bike, play soccer, baseball, hockey, and how to fish. Pops was always our biggest fan right along with our momma. He would pick us up when we fell, he would clean busted chins, scraped knees, kiss the boo- boos better and wipe our tears. As we got older he taught us the importance of believing in ourselves like he believed in us. When he became a papa he would always say, if I knew it was this easy and great having grandchildren, I would have started with them, lol. When we would tell him one of the kids did something that wasn’t the greatest he would always say well where do you think they got that from, you put your mom and I through so much now we get to laugh and say haha to you guys. He was always very supportive and proud of all his grand babies, cheering them on either in person or afar, he was always their greatest and loudest supporter. When there was an illness, broken bone or surgery he was sure to send his love and support to his grandbabies.
The three of us were lucky and honored as we got to walk down the aisle with him by our side as we got passed to our forevers from the man that gave us our beginnings.
Mel spent time after his retirement with Sherri walking at Birds Hill, going to Bomber games (he loved his season tickets), going to Jets games (even though he was a Leaf fan), going away for weekends at Tall Pines, making his dreams of going to Cuba come true, camping, and playing cards with his old forestry buddy, Randy. He was enjoying life and the freedom of not having to work so hard everyday. He earned it and sadly it was cut way to short.
We will miss you dearly, we love you whole world much.
A Celebration of Life will be held on July 29th 2023 from 1pm till 4 at four crowns restaurant, 1030 Mcphillips street.
Family and friends are invited to share memories and condolences on Melville’s memorial page by using the comment field below.