Cropo Funeral Chapel

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Proudly Serving the Winnipeg Community Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. We are an independent family-owned funeral service and cremation provider. Our web site will give you information about us and the services we provide. If you have any questions or would like to share suggestions on how we could improve our site, we would appreciate hearing from you. Cropo Funeral Chapel was founded in 1957 by Sir Thomas B. Cropo who was the driving force of the chapel until his death in 1998.Through the hard work and dedication of the Cropo family, Cropo Funeral Chapel has become the largest independently owned funeral chapel in Manitoba. Since its inception, the chapel has operated at 1442 Main Street in Winnipeg. In 2006 John Leggat became owner and president of Cropo Funeral Chapel. John has extensive experience in working with families and communities; his background includes working with families with disabilities, the child welfare system, child day care and employment and income assistance services. He was the Acting Assistant Deputy Minister for Family Services and Housing with the Manitoba Government and is currently the President and CEO of St. Amant centre.

Cropo Funeral Chapel Ltd. was founded in 1957 by Thomas B. Cropo who was the driving force of the chapel until his death in 1998.Through the hard work and dedication of the Cropo family, Cropo Funeral Chapel has become the largest independently owned funeral chapel in Manitoba. Since its inception, the chapel has operated at 1442 Main Street in Winnipeg. In 1979, the chapel was renovated with the addition of a second chapel, viewing rooms, arrangement offices and mortuary facilities. In 1997, the facility added a reception room, the "Rose Room", named after the long time logo of Cropo Funeral Chapel. The red rose was the personal favorite of Tom Cropo. Thomas Cropo, who was commonly referred to as "Tommy", was born August 10, 1925. Tommy's parents, Josephine and Marion Cropo had five children with Tommy being the youngest of the five. Tommy's brothers and sisters were Ed Cropo, Joe Cropo, Stella Lucier and Hellen Gallagher. Tommy was baptized at the Holy Ghost Church on September 13, 1925. Tommy's schooling took place at Machray, Holy Ghost and St. John's High School and Tommy later went to Chicago where he took his training as a funeral director.

Cropo Funeral Chapel was founded in 1957. We are an independent family-owned funeral service and cremation provider.

John passed away on July 14, 2014 at Grace Hospital at the age of 52. John was born in Port Arthur, ON (Thunder Bay) in 1961 to Ivan and Ivanka Paun who both emigrated from Croatia. He graduated from Lakehead University with a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology and subsequently was offered a position with the Province of Manitoba as a Behavioral Specialist. John completed his career as a Psychologist for Frontier School Division providing a multi-facetted range of services throughout Manitoba. John married the love of his life, Silvia (nee Vecchio) and together they raised three daughters, Denise, Amanda and Nicole. John is also survived by his brother Dan (Tasmin), nephew Jarad as well as extended family across Canada and Croatia. He was predeceased by his parents and older sister Denise.

We provide our families with an open door policy. Please feel free to contact us 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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