Mrs. Susan Margaret Tennant (née Heywood) passed away at the University of Alberta Hospital on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 after a short battle with cancer and heart disease. Susan was born in Beckenham, Kent, England during the second World War to Thomas Heywood, a Canadian Soldier, and Margaret (Peggy) Beaton. Immediately after the war her father returned to Canada and Susan, her mother, and sister Janet joined him in 1946 sailing on the Queen Mary to Halifax and then by train to Red Deer, Alberta. Their first home was a farm on what is now the Glendale subdivision, followed by a time in North Red Deer and finally to a veteran's house in Mountview. She attended various schools in the city including a brand-new Eastview Junior High and then Lindsay Thurber where she graduated in 1961. Her first job was at Union Milk where her father also worked, followed by short stints with Alberta Government Telephones and the City of Red Deer, finally ending up at Woolco/Walmart where she worked for thirty-one years as a Customer Service Supervisor. In 1961 she met Jerry Tennant when they were both members of Parkland Players Theatre Group. They married in 1963 and raised four children in their Westpark home. After becoming empty nesters, they moved to Aspen Ridge Grande Condominium in 2003. Susan and Jerry loved to travel and especially enjoyed trips to Disneyland with children and grandchildren, voyages on cruise ships, bus tours of Great Britain and Europe and many vacations in Hawaii. While travel was wonderful her greatest joy was being a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She loved family dinners and outings, and attending the kids and grandkids activities whether at school, in cold arenas, on soccer pitches or at dance recitals.
Susan was pre-deceased by her mother and father; stepmother, Theresa (Bosse) Heywood; and sister, Janet. She is survived by her husband Jerry; children, Kim (Jim) Bakker, Kerry (Marguerite) Tennant, Kevin (Heidi) Tennant, and Kellie Tennant; grandchildren, Kelsie (Kyle) Stephenson, Heather Bakker (Trey Body), Ella Tennant, Andrew Tennant, Joshua Tennant, Aleah Tennant, and Logan Tennant; great-grandchildren, Kennedy and Kieran Stephenson; sister, Beverly Lang; nieces, Cheryl and Patricia Lang; and nephew, Stephen Lang; as well as many stepsisters and brothers, nieces and nephews from her extended Bosse family.
A Memorial Service will be held at Living Stones Church, 2020 40 Avenue, Red Deer, on Friday, November 7, 2025, at 11:00a.m. The Service will be live streamed and accessible through https://www.livingstones.ab.ca/live/. If desired, Memorial Donations in Susan's honour can be made directly to the Alberta Cancer Foundation at www.albertacancer.ca. Cremation entrusted to Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. Condolences, memories and photos may be shared and viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.