{"id":78988,"date":"2016-07-23T09:25:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=78988"},"modified":"2025-01-13T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:14:52","slug":"loved-ones-celebrate-slain-calgary-mom-daughter-dancing-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/23\/loved-ones-celebrate-slain-calgary-mom-daughter-dancing-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Loved ones celebrate slain Calgary mom, daughter with dancing and poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Missing five-year-old Taliyah Marsman’s body was discovered on a rural property east of Calgary.
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CALGARY \u2013 Loved ones of a slain mother and daughter celebrated their lives with one of the pair\u2019s favourite activities \u2013 dancing.<\/p>\n

More than a thousand people attended the memorial service Thursday for Sara Baillie, 34, and her five-year-old daughter, Taliyah Marsman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m tired of mourning. I want an opportunity to celebrate, and this is it,\u201d said Baillie\u2019s uncle, Scott Hamilton.<\/p>\n

With that, he and his son Justin pulled sunglasses out of their suit pockets, put them on and gave each other a high-five.<\/p>\n

Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Stop \u2018Til You Get Enough\u201d started playing and the men started to dance. Guests stood and joined in.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s anything that Taliyah and Sara loved to do, it was dance,\u201d said Hamilton, who said his family lovingly nicknamed the girl \u201cT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taliyah\u2019s father, Colin Marsman, compiled a slide show with pictures of the curly-haired little girl mugging for the camera, playing in a park, colouring and dressed up for a dance recital.<\/p>\n

At the front of the church sanctuary was a table with two urns, stuffed animals, flowers, a sequined red dance outfit and a soccer jersey.<\/p>\n

Agatha Mardinger, Taliyah\u2019s stepsister, said her life was changed the moment the two met.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe was kind, smart, beautiful and full of light,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Taliyah\u2019s cousin, Nina Cox, recited a poem that was written by the girl\u2019s great uncle called \u201cMessage to Daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHold our love close and tight and I\u2019ll promise to visit you in your dreams at night,\u201d she read. \u201cI didn\u2019t mean to leave you so soon. Now I\u2019m dancing with Grampy to our favourite tune.\u201d<\/p>\n

The church was regaled with stories of Baillie accidentally reversing a car into a closed garage door when she was a teenager, getting soaked in a car wash when she failed to roll up her windows and wearing a Christmas wreath as a party hat to cheer up a friend.<\/p>\n

Tawny Poelzer, who met Baillie while working at Boston Pizza, said her friend had a way with people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that between our craziness and ridiculous antics, we were building the foundation of a great friendship,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Poelzer said Taliyah was like Baillie\u2019s \u201cmini me\u201d and recalled a time the girl made everyone laugh with her \u201cscary roar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baillie\u2019s mother, Janet Fredette, spoke briefly to reporters before the service.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are, of course, overcome with grief by the unnecessary loss of two beautiful members of our family,\u201d Fredette read from a family statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite our grief we are also overwhelmed by the strength that this community has given us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Calgary Police Service, our friends and hundreds, if not thousands, of unknown community members have shown us how to be strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for your support Calgary, Alberta and Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baillie was found dead in her northwest Calgary home on July 11, but Taliyah was not there and an Amber Alert was issued.<\/p>\n

The little girl\u2019s body was found days later in a rural area east of the city.<\/p>\n

A Calgary man, Edward Downey, faces two counts of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n

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Police have said he knew both Baillie and Taliyah, but it\u2019s not clear how.<\/p>\n

Rev. Miriam Mollering, who presided over the service, said the night Taliyah was found, two rainbows appeared over the house where the girl and Baillie lived in a basement suite.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the scriptures, rainbows refer to the promise of God. it is a sign of God\u2019s love, God\u2019s faithfulness. It\u2019s a symbol of hope that is reflected after a storm,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rainbow is a sign of a covenant of love, of forgiveness and acceptance He gives to us.<\/p>\n

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