Passed away peacefully on Saturday April 18 in his 93rd year with his daughter Gabriele at his side at the Waterford Long Term Care Home in Oakville, Ontario.

Oskar was born in Schmitsch, Germany to Maria Plitzko. They emigrated to Berlin in 1927 where his mother married Wilhelm Heinz, who was a good father to Oskar. His sister, Gisela, lived in the former East Berlin and predeceased him.

After qualifying as an architect after the end of WW-II, Oskar married Kaethe Neumann, the sister of his good friend Karli, in 1946. The couple moved to Bihac, Yugoslavia where their daughter, Gabriele, was born in 1948. Returning in 1950 to an occupied Berlin in the middle of the former East Germany, Oskar feared for Berlin's future and the young family emigrated to Toronto, Ontario in 1953.

Sadly, Kaethe died in 1961. In 1977 Oskar married Helga Edith Gustafson to whom he was happily married for 20 years. Helga predeceased him in 1997.

Oskar faced major health problems in his lifetime with courage and fortitude. The polio he contracted as a child re-emerged as Post-Polio Syndrome in his later years. In 1955 he suffered from Tuberculosis and spent almost a year in recovery. In his mid-fifties, he endured and survived colon cancer. In spite of all his physical challenges he worked hard all of his life and enjoyed tennis and golf, which he played with his beloved Helga in their retirement.

Oskar will be remembered for his kindness, his wry sense of humour, and his courage in the face of the many difficulties and problems that he endured in his life. He will be missed by his daughter and nephew and niece by marriage Morgan and Sheila Hultquist.

A celebration of Oskar's life will take place at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Oskar's memory to the Canadian Wildlife Federation.