Olga Takacs

Olga was born February 10, 1939 in Germany to Katharina and Adolf Siemens. Following the war, Katharina immigrated to the Fraser Valley on the Cunnard White Star SS “Samaria” in 1949 with four of her children, Kay, Olga, Ann and Victor. Sadly, Olga’s oldest brother Albert had already passed away. The family homesteaded on their acre in Greendale BC while they waited for Olga’s father to join them in 1956 following 11 years as a POW. Two years later, Olga’s little sister Angelika was born in 1958.

Olga met and married her husband Louis in 1965 after a very brief courtship and they have two daughters, Karen Takacs and Lisa Edwardsen. The family lived all over Vancouver Island settling in Duncan in 1971. Olga started painting at that time as she had always said “I wanted all the masterpieces on my walls” and she never stopped painting right up to the last minute.

In 1982 Olga became a hairdresser and eventually owned The Alley Cat hair salon. Following her career as a hair stylist, never being one to sit still, she took her art up a notch by opening a World Wide Web site called Famous Art Reproductions and through this she sold hundreds of painting all over the world from 1999-2018.

Being an incredibly artistic person, Olga also loved baking, decorating her home, creating beautiful gardens that she was so proud of and of course fashion and shopping. But nothing was as important to Olga as her family, her children, two grandchildren Michael Murdoch and Adrienne Murdoch, and her three great grandchildren Lincoln, Harlow and Mila. Spending time with family and hosting all of the holiday and birthday events her entire life was her joy.

Olga is survived by her loving husband Louis of 56 years, her sisters Ann Slade and Angelika Green and their families, her daughters Karen and Lisa and their families as well as relatives from all across Canada and Europe, not to mention the hundreds of lifelong friends and of course all of her Facebook friends. She touched so many people in her life and has left a lasting legacy of her art as well. Life will never be the same without her and no one who met her will ever forget her. Olga was a free spirit, ahead of her time, who did everything her way with style and laughter, she embodied the saying “live in the moment”.