Louis WACHSBERG

LOUIS WACHSBERG It is with much sadness that we share with you the passing of Louis Wachsberg on Saturday, March 25, 2023, surrounded by family in Scottsdale, Arizona. Louis Wachsberg was born to Abraham and Lea on April 29, 1931, and shared childhood with his older brother, Jerome. As a young man, Louis fled his native Poland and spent the post War decade in France and gained learning and friendships, embracing both with a zeal which fostered lifelong relationships and growth opportunities. First in Strasbourg, then in Paris an industrialist was born. Louis pursued business with creativity and style, encouraged by the generous assistance of commercial parties who acknowledged Louis' gift for engaging people and ideas genuinely and purposefully. Reunited with his parents and brother, Louis resourcefully sought Atlantic passage to Canada and settled his family in Montreal. While plying trade in his new community, he was embraced with the committed love of a beautiful young lady, Sonia, whose own childhood hardships bound Sonia and Louis into a lifelong union of hearts without any equal known to any person who witnessed its joys. Marriage and the birth of twin boys, Charles and Richard harmoniously evolved into a family life resplendently consistent in dedicated affection for wife and sons but especially, and most remarkably, for his Parents Lea and Abraham and for Sonia's Mother, Victoria, all of whose ears never suffered a day without the kind and caring voice of their son, Louis. His adoration of his wife and twin sons and his daughter in law, Nathalie, and of his six grandchildren: Jacqueline and Daniel and Lauryn and Andrew and Madison and Dylan knew no bounds. Louis' being has always resonated with a spirit and enthusiasm for propriety. He emoted impactfully in favour of sensitivity and courtesy and regard for others, especially in circumstances whereupon others' life dramas had delivered unkind experiences. If Louis was wronged by someone, he held no grudge. Rather, he actively defended the afflicting party's actions as pardonable given that party's circumstances past and present. It is true that never was a tarnishment considered or uncharitable thought or word levied by this boundlessly generous soul against another being. He never tired of people, their stories, their common or uncommon experiences. He folded the information gained by virtue of these efforts into a generous envelope of understanding respecting people and places, needs and wants, opportunities and challenges: how to live and how to dream. Louis pursued his life with vim, vitality, and vigor. Louis lived with purposeful and bountiful energy his whole life. Each day was replete with experiential thought and practice, with learning and curiosity and, importantly, with good humour and hopefulness. Louis harboured a voracious appetite for reading. Newspapers in several languages from all corners of society and the globe were always underarm. Louis resided in Toronto during his last 36 years where a myriad of friendships and associations were earned and cherished. His spirit and energies knew no geographic boundary. Louis travelled all corners of our World throughout his adult life to gain knowledge and understanding of and, inevitably, the appreciation of all who were magnetically drawn to his good intentions, kind attentions and gregarious charms. The purity of Louis' personal humanity invited and then held universal appeal. We, his loving family, have always danced to the tunes effervescently sung by this most resplendently delightful Man, Son, Brother, Cousin, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Friend, Mentor, Creator, Student, Caregiver, Raconteur and Leader. So established is his hold upon our dreams, thoughts, and cares that we shall delight in the resonance of his existence for all our time. We are so much better for being bound to and propelled by Louis' force of character and quality of character. There is not a word of mistake in claiming that this extraordinarily qualified human being was and shall remain the singularly special motivation for all the good that we have done and that we could still do and that we shall still do in our time. Therein lies the incalculable and necessarily unreciprocated debt of gratitude we owe to his existence and his influence upon our lives. Our memories will deliver upon the promise to recall his every fine attribute with the recognition and frequency of which he and they are deserving. May his memory and his good name bring smiles and warmth to all who knew him as they do so meaningfully for his family. May we all seek and have great persons in our lives who inspire us and energize us and incite our best intentions and passions to live properly, caringly, joyfully, respectfully, daringly, intelligently, humorously, thoughtfully, righteously, and compassionately. Donations in memory of Louis Wachsberg may be made to Beit Halochem Canada at (905)-695-0611, or University Health Network Emergency Department at (416)603-5300.