Thanks from the Klengenberg family

It has been well over a month since our beloved mother passed away and we miss her dearly everyday. There is not one day that goes by without thinking about our mother, Lily Angnahiak Klengenberg.

Without the help of our relatives and friends, and expecially the land claims organizations in Nunavut and the NWT, our family would not have been able to get together because of the vast distances the family lived across in Nunavut and NWT.

The bereavement benefit that the land claims organizations put together helped our family tremendously during our time of need.

I would like to recognize Donald Havioyak, president of the Kitikmeot Inuit Association and Paul Kaludjak, president of NTI, for assisting us in bringing our three brothers and two nephews home from Rymer Point, Nunavut. They were stranded due to ice and would not have been able to be with us for the funeral if it weren’t for these two organizations assisting financially. I want to especially recognize Stanley Anablak, employee of KIA, who tirelessly worked to find an aircraft. Koanakpiakohi.

Thank you, Mona Tiktalik of KIA and Ishmael Naulalik of NTI, for working expeditiously to get our family to Kugluktuk through the benefits program of KIA and NTI.

We had family members come in from Yellowknife, Holman, and Inuvik, NWT and without the help of the Inuvialuit Regional Council Bereavement Benefit Program, this would not have happened.

Thank you Nellie Cournyea, CEO and chair; Roger Connelly, chief operating officer; and April Bourke, cooperation and benefits agreement manager; and everyone who I may have missed.

Koana Rosie Kagak, Marion Bolt, Helen Enogaloak, and Millie Kuliktana for being there to help out and console us in our time of need.

We will not forget your generosity.

On behalf of the Klengenberg family,

Helen Kimnik Klengenberg
Iqaluit