Funerals set for Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette and father, Terry Blanchette

The funerals for two-year-old Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette and her father, Terry Blanchette, have been set for Oct. 9 near Blairmore, Alta.

A public service will be held at 3 p.m. at the Crowsnest Consolidated High School in the neighbouring community of Coleman for members of the community who wish to attend. Friends say a private service has been set for another time.

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An obituary on the Fantin’s Funeral Chapel website says Hailey was Blanchette’s “greatest treasure.”

“She transformed Terry into the perfect father and role model for his little princess.  Hailey never knew sorrow or hardship; she was the ray of sunshine in her parent’s lives.”

“Both Terry and Hailey deserved lives full of adventure and laughter. May they walk hand in hand into a new kingdom in paradise where suffering and tears have no place.”

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Twenty-seven-year-old Blanchette’s body was found inside the family home in Blairmore, Alta. on Sept. 14.

RCMP said they found Hailey’s body in a rural area near Blairmore the next afternoon.

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Derek Saretzky, of Blairmore, Alta., was later charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of committing an indignity to a human body.

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