MARGARET ADELINE LAHD, PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE APRIL 7, 1999 AT THE AGE OF 89 YEARS.
MARGARET WAS BORN OCTOBER 11, 1909 AT MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA TO JOHN AND ELIZA JANE WILSON. MARGARET SPENT HER FORMATIVE YEARS AND TOOK HER SCHOOLING IN DRUMHELLER AND CALGARY. SUMMERS WERE SPENT WITH HER SIBLINGS AND COUSINS AT HER GRANDPARENTS RANCH AT QUEENSTOWN, SUPERVISED BY GRANDPARENTS AND MANY AUNTS AND UNCLES. MARGARET AND HER SISTER DOROTHY SPENT MANY HAPPY HOURS DURING THESE SUMMERS RIDING HORSES. AFTER COMPLETING A SECRETARIAL COURSE, MARGARET TOOK A JOB AT THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA IN QUEENSTOWN. IT WAS DURING THIS TIME SHE MET HER FUTURE HUSBAND JESSE LAHD. MARGARET AND JESSE WERE MARRIED IN JANUARY 1935 AND SETTLED AT BATTLE LAKE.
IN 1940 MARGARET AND HER YOUNG FAMILY MOVED TO CALGARY. FOR A YEAR THEY LIVED IN DAWSON CREEK WHILE HER HUSBAND WORKED ON THE ALASKA HIGHWAY DURING WWII., MOVING BACK TO CALGARY IN 1944. IN 1949 THEY PURCHASED LAND NEAR QUEENSTOWN CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL HOMESTEADED PROPERTY OF HER GRANDPARENTS, LAND ORIGINALLY SETTLED IN 1889, AND KNOWN AS THE ARBUTHNOTT RANCH. IN 1988 THEY SOLD THE FARM AND RETIRED INTO HIGH RIVER, WHERE THEY REMAINED UNTIL JESSE’S DEATH IN 1992. MARGARET MOVED TO VULCAN IN 1993 TO BE CLOSER TO HER CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
DURING THE THIRTY NINE YEARS IN QUEENSTOWN , MARGARET WAS ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY. SHE PARTICIPATED IN LADIES AID, DRAMA CLUB, WOMEN’S INSTITUTE, BOTH MILO AND VULCAN DROP IN CENTERS. MARGARET LOVED TO PLAY BRIDGE, AND WOULD NEVER MISS A CARD PARTY IF IT COULD BE AVOIDED. MARGARET LOVED TO TRAVEL AND SPENT MANY HAPPY WINTERS IN ARIZONA AND NEVADA.
LOVING MOTHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS MARILYN (KEITH) HEALY OF VULCAN, JO-ANN (CAMERON) KLEM OF CALGARY, A SON GRANT (BETTY) LAHD OF MILO, NINE GRANDCHILDREN, FOURTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, SISTER-IN-LAW MAMIE FERGUSON OF CALGARY, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
BESIDES HER HUSBAND JESSE LAHD, MARGARET WAS PREDECEASED BY BROTHER BARNEY WILSON, SISTER DOROTHY FAIRBANKS AND HER PARENTS JOHN AND ELIZA JANE WILSON.
FUNERAL SERVICE AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH SATURDAY APRIL 10, 1999 AT 1:30 P.M. WITH REV. LORRAINE POWELL OFFICIATING.
CASKET BEARERS WERE LLOYD HEALY, TIM HEALY, JERRY LAHD, ROD LAHD, LEE LAHD AND KYLE LAHD.
INURNMENT AT A LATER DATE.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS TRIBUTES IN MARGARET’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT BOX 299 VULCAN, ALBERTA TOL 2BO.
VULCAN FUNERAL HOME IN CARE OF ARRANGEMENTS. TELEPHONE 485-2633.