My late husband, Sid Fredericksen, had an interesting life, and I will publish some of his writings on this page. We were married in 2009 when he was 66 years old. We had met two years earlier. He had many stories from before we met, and other interesting stories since.
We were married for eleven years before he passed away, in the year 2020. I always joked that he must have kept many angels busy protecting him through risky behaviour and risky jobs. But no, in the end it wasn’t an accident that ended his life. It was pancreatic cancer.
Sid Fredericksen always kept people entertained. From the time he was a young child, he loved to sing for his family or his school class. God gifted him with an ear for music. He got a woman in his hometown to teach him guitar as a teenager. Although he never read music, he was able to play several other instruments by ear as well. At the time we met, his favourite was ukulele, which he played and sang with at several coffee houses around the Nanaimo area.
Besides music, he loved to tell his favourite stories and jokes, making sure to get the punch line just right. As they say, truth is stranger than fiction, and he had a lot of interesting life experiences and characters he knew to draw from.
He even wrote three short books, which he combined into one. He gave me a copy of it when we first met. In his own redneck voice, he points readers to his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Jesus brought meaning into Sid’s life and gave him true joy. Not perfection, but forgiveness. Most of all, Sid wanted his family and everyone he met to know Jesus.
In the posts under this page, “Sid Fredericksen”, which you will find if you click on the down arrow, I give you some of his stories and songs.
Yesterday, March 17, 2025, would have been Sid’s 82nd birthday. He passed away on July 28, 2020, nearly five years ago. After missing him greatly for three years, God brought someone new into my life who was also lonely since his wife passed away. We have been so happy to find comfort in each other and to enjoy the rest of our lives together.
