In memory of

Ljiljana Rajic

February 26, 1950 -  October 20, 2019

Beloved Wife, Mother, and World's Best Grandmother.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation to the link below.

Celebration of life will follow the funeral and will be at family residence.

Guestbook 

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Wendy Burgess (Family friend)

Entered October 22, 2019

Sending my heart felt sympathy to the entire Rajic-Georgiev family for the loss of Ljiljana. Thinking of you and sending much love and hugs. Love, Wendy

George Thelwell 

Entered October 22, 2019 from Mississauga, Ontario

You raised a wonderful daughter and that is one of the gifts you left. May you find peace and comfort.

Lisa Reynolds (Friends)

Entered October 22, 2019

My kids and I always felt welcome when we visited with Mrs. Rajic granddaughters. The whole family is wonderful, especially her. she would hug and kiss my kids and make them delicious warm meals. They especially liked her French toast. Rest In Peace. Lisa, Nigel, Nilissa and Nigel Jr.

Joanne Vibert (Friend)

Entered October 22, 2019 from Oshawa

Ron and I send our condolences to you and your family in this time of grief.

Sarah Coles (daughter in law)

Entered October 22, 2019

A beautiful, and caring woman, who welcomed me into the family with open arms and her famous delicious pita! Her generous heart and nature, never wanting anyone to go without. From knitting, to cooking, to bean fortune telling I shared moments that will be fond memories for ever. I am lucky and thankful to have known this lovely woman, and I know her spirit lives on forever in her wonderful family. Rest in peace Lily you will be missed greatly.

Life Stories 

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Family 

Entered October 22, 2019

Angel amongst us who loved all, cared for all. Whomever she touched, she touched in a loving compassionate way. She was a person who would tell you not to worry, and then go and do all the worrying for you. She took on the troubles of everyone and treated all well regardless of how they treated her. There isn't a single person who is more filled with love and more willing to show it than Lily. Before you even had the chance to feel hungry, there was a new smell that filled the house, and a new taste to follow soon after. She made all kinds of foods that all kinds of people enjoyed. Cooking was one of her many passions and it's something she shared by cooking for everyone. You could taste the love and thoughtfulness in every meal she made. Beyond that, she was one of the most stylish people. She loved to look proper for any and every occasion and always stood out in the best ways in a crowd. You could tell that she was full of care in every single aspect of her life. Her care went beyond that of anybody else. She was the most loving person that any of us had ever had the pleasure of knowing. The best way to summarize her loving personality is with a quotation from her: "I don't have any enemies, I love everyone."

From your husband - Bosnian version 

Entered October 22, 2019

Draga moja Ljiljo,
Prije nego se oprostim sa tobom želim da se zahvalim onima koji su došli da te isprate na tvoj vječni počinak.
Da ti iskreno kažem ja osjećam da ti i sada odnekud, odozgo, viriš na nas i brižno gledaš na sve nas kao što si to uvijek radila za svog života.
Da znaš Stara moja, da si oduvijek bila najbolja žena, majka, babi za sve nas koji te sada ispraćaju sa ogromnim bolom u srcu na tvoj vječni put.
Bila si ponosna kad si branila svoju djecu, nježna sa svoim unukama, darežljiva više nego što običan čovjek može biti darežljiji, neograničena u davanju svoje ljubavi svojim princezama, a i nama ostalima.
U teškim trenutcima bila si uz svakoga sa svojim brižnim pogledima, utjehom tješeći nas sve kroz te teške trenutke kroz koje smo svi prolazili a naročito tvoje drage unuke koje si od milja zvala Deki, Ninči i Kićana.
Mnogo si se žrtvovala i uložila truda sve dok svojom upornošću nisi pronašla svoje izgubljene rođake, sestrićinu Teu i bratića Acu, sa kojim si odrastala i izgubila svaki kontakt nakon nesretnog rata 1992.
Sada, kada si ih konačno pronašla, i provela prošlu godinu kod njih u posjeti, okrutna bolest te je uzela ne dajući ti šansu da nastaviš započete odnose. Teška bolest te je ugrabila prije nego ti je dala priliku da se boriš, iako si čitav život bila borac.
Nedostaješ mi Stara moja! Ko će me sada zovnuti Starki i upitati šta ćemo ručati, i hoćemo li malo u kupovinu, nemaju djeca ništa slatko da im baba kupi?
Vjeruj mi da nisam ni znao koliko si mjesta zauzimala u mom srcu i sada kad sam te zauvijek izgubio ostala je ogromna praznina u njemu ranjenom.
Našoj djeci Adisu i Arijani otrgla si svojim odlaskom dio njihovih duša. A teško je opisati koliko nedostaješ zetu Velinu, snahi Sari a da ne pominjem ostalu rodbinu tvoju u Zagrebu i moju u Walnut creek i Banja Luci.
Draga moja Stara, moram da kažem da si nezasluženo pretpjela mnogo bola i patnje u vrijeme tvoje bolesti a mi nismo mogli mirno gledati tvoju muku u neravnopravnoj borbi protiv te neželjene i opake bolesti, i koja je teško padala svima nama, našim unukama, našoj djeci, zetu i snahi, prijateljima i rodbini koji su ti slali ličnim porukama tople želje i riječi podrške kroz javna glasila, naročito ''Face book'' i mnogim ličnim porukama.
Možeš biti ponosna jer su mnoge suze prolivene širom svijeta gdje se god nalaze naši prijatelji koji su cijenili a i danas cijene tvoje veli
ko srca i čestitost.
Nedostaješ nam svima draga Babi, nama tvojim najbližim, komšijama, i svim prijateljima sa kojima si odrastala, stasovala u prelijepu djevojku, koju sam sreo prije 50 godina, ženu, majku i na kraju Babi.
Ponosan sam što sam proveo s tobom 50 godina i što smo skupa uz tvoju ogromnu žrtvu ponovo svi stali na noge.
Kad bi suze mogle sazidati stepenice, a sjećanja liniju do Raja, ja bih se sa našom familijom popeo do tebe i vratio te ponovo među nas.
Neka ti je laka zemlja Kanadska.

Draga moja Ljiljo.

From your husband - English version 

Entered October 22, 2019

My dear Lily,
Before I say good-bye to you, I want to thank those who have come today to send you to your eternal resting place.
To tell you the truth, I feel like you're…. from somewhere, upstairs, peeking at us and looking at us all like you've always done for your whole life.
You know, my ole’ lady, that you've always been the best woman, mother, grandmother for all of us who are now sending you off with a tremendous pain in our hearts on your eternal journey.
You were proud when you defended your children, gentle with your grandchildren, more generous than any ordinary person could be, unrestricted in giving your love to your Princesses, and to the rest of us.
You were always with everyone in their darkest and hardest moments and you watched them with your worrying eyes and with your soothing comfort tried to make everyone feel better- especially your granddaughters that you dearly called Deki, Ninchi and Kichana.
You have made a lot of sacrifices and made much effort until you found your lost relatives, the niece of Tea and nephew of Aco, with whom you grew up and lost every contact after the unfortunate War of 1992.
Now that you've finally found them and spent the last year visiting them, a cruel illness has taken you and not given you the chance to continue your relationship. It was the grave illness that took you away from continuing to nurture that relationship, even before it gave you the chance to fight, although you were a fighter all your life.
I miss you “my ole’ lady! Who's going to call me “ole Man” now and ask me what are we going to have lunch, and shall we go shopping, as our grandchildren maybe don’t have anything sweet so we should buy it?
Believe me, I didn't know how much space you took in my heart, and now that I've lost you forever, there's a huge void in my wounded heart.
To our children, Adis and Arijana with her daughters Dea, Evelina and Kiana you have taken away a huge part of their souls. And it's hard to describe how much your Son-in-law Velin and daughter-in-law, Sarah with Scarlett, miss you not to mention the rest of your family in Zagreb and mine at Walnut Creek and all our friends and family in Banja Luka.
My dear ole’ lady, I have to say that you were undeserving of all that pain and suffering that you went through during the time of your illness and we could not calmly look at your troubles in the insufferable struggle against this undesirable and vicious disease, and that was hard for all of us, our grandchildren, our children , the son-in-law and daughter-in-law, and friends and relatives who sent you personal messages of warm wellbeing wishes and words of support through public posts, especially "Face book" and many personal messages.
You can be proud as there are many tears being cried all over the world wherever our friends are, who have appreciated and even today appreciate your huge heart and honesty.
We miss you all, dear Babi, to us your closest, to the neighbors, and to all the friends you've grown up with, and blossomed into the beautiful woman that you did, which I met 50 years ago, a wife, a mother, and finally Babi.
I am proud that I have spent 50 years with you and that together with your enormous sacrifice we are all on our feet again.
If tears could build the stairs, and the memories a line to heaven, I'd climb up to you with our family and bring you back to us.

May the Canadian soil be light on you.

My dear Lily.

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