ROBERT ARTHUR “BOB” POTTER OF QUEENSTOWN PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT HOME JUNE 5, 2000 AT THE AGE OF 73 YEARS.
BOB WAS BORN OCTOBER 20, 1926 AT STEWART VALLEY, SASKATCHEWAN TO GEORGE AND VILNA POTTER. HE RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION AT SWIFT CURRENT. HE MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE IN HIS LATE TEENS WHERE HE ENLISTED IN THE NAVY MERCHANT MARINES FOR TWO YEARS AND SERVED DOING GENERAL DUTIES. AFTER HIS TOUR OF DUTY WITH THE NAVY HE WORKED IN LETHBRIDGE AS A SELF EMPLOYED TRUCK DRIVER. IN 1954 BOB MARRIED SABINA PELUCH IN CALGARY AND THEY RESIDED IN LETHBRIDGE UNTIL MOVING HIS FAMILY TO CALGARY IN 1957 WHERE HE CONTINUED DRIVING TRUCK. IN 1981 THEY DIVORCED AND IN 1983 HE MARRIED HIS SECOND WIFE ELOISE (DOLLY) WOZNEY AND THEY CONTINUED TO RESIDE IN CALGARY. THEY MOVED TO QUEENSTOWN IN 1990 WHERE HE WORKED WITH LOCAL FARMERS TRUCKING AND ALSO WELL SERVICING. IN 1992 HE DIVORCED DOLLY AND CONTINUED TRUCKING FOR THE LOCAL FARMERS UNTIL HE RETIRED IN 1997 AND HAS CONTINUED TO RESIDE IN QUEENSTOWN.
BOB ENJOYED GARDENING AND SPENT SEVERAL HOURS OUT IN THE YARD PUTTERING AROUND. HE ALSO ENJOYED FISHING, READING AND CONSTRUCTING MODEL SHIPS.
IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE SARCEE LEGION IN CALGARY.
LOVING FATHER OF THREE SONS RODNEY, TIMOTHY (DONNA), CLAYTON (LYNN) AND THEIR MOTHER SABINA POTTER ALL OF CALGARY, FIVE GRANDCHILDREN ASHLEIGH, MELISSA, BRIAN, KENNETH, CAROLYN ALL OF CALGARY, A SISTER IDABELLE (WESLEY) HOWES OF SWIFT CURRENT, SASKATCHEWAN, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
ROBERT WAS PREDECEASED BY THREE SISTERS GLADYS, LEONE AND AUDREY, FOUR BROTHERS GEORGE, FRANK, CHESTER , ELBA AND HIS PARENTS.
CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICE FRIDAY JUNE 9, 2000 AT 1:00 P.M. AT MILO COMMUNITY HALL WITH CAROLYN NICHOLSON D.M. OFFICIATING.
INURNMENT MILO LUTHERAN CEMETERY.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE , TRIBUTES IN BOB’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE HEART AND STOKE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA 1825 PARK RD. S.E. CALGARY T2G 3Y6.
ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. DIRECTORS. TELEPHONE 1-403-485-2633 OF E-MAIL CONDOLENCES TO vulcafuneralhome@hotmail.com.