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Social planned for victim of crash

By: Gabrielle Giroday

Wednesday, May. 9, 2012 at 8:21 AM | Comments: 0

Submitted photo Kendall Wiebe and Steve Cancilla

STEVE Cancilla has a reminder of his late wife -- their four-year-old daughter who consoled him at her funeral.

It's been one month since Kendall Wiebe, 27, died in a freak vehicle crash while she worked in a Westwood hair salon. She was fatally injured after a Jeep Liberty plowed into the Ultracuts where she worked in the 3300 block of Portage Avenue on April 7 -- minutes after getting off the phone with her mother.

On May 12, a social will be held in Wiebe's honour at the Kirkfield Westwood Community Centre to mark the 28th birthday she'll never celebrate.

Funds will go to the Kendall Wiebe-Cancilla memorial fund and support a single father now raising three kids without his partner.

"It's hard to sleep at night, and it's all that I think about. The only thing that makes me somewhat normal is just the activities with kids and just keeping busy with them," said Cancilla, who's taken time off his job in sales to grapple with the loss. Wiebe would have turned 28 years old on May 18.

Cancilla and Wiebe, who lived common-law and considered each other husband and wife, were raising 13-year-old Meagan, nine-year-old Bryce and their four-year-old daughter Brynn.

The two older children are from a previous relationship of Cancilla's, and Wiebe considered them hers.

"They mean the world to me," he said. "I'm trying to be there as much as possible for everything I can for them."

Cancilla said he's grateful for an outpouring of support he's received in the wake of Wiebe's death.

"It's just amazing that people can come together and rally around a tragedy like this and help our family and be there for us," he said.

"It touches me completely on the inside. I think the night of the social I'll be quite emotional once I see how this is all put together."

People who want more information about the social can contact Ryan Price at ryan@ryjus.com .

Police have not announced any charges in connection with Wiebe's death, and an investigation is underway into what happened.

gabrielle.giroday@freepress.mb.ca

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