MARTHA MARIE MUELLER, PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AUGUST 20, 1998 AT THE AGE OF 80 YEARS.
MARTHA WAS BORN AT CARBON, ALBERTA SEPTEMBER 6, 1917 TO GOTTLEIB AND JACOBEANA KRANZLER, WHERE SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL UNTIL GRADE EIGHT. MARTHA BEGAN WORKING AT AN EARLY AGE FIRST WORKING FOR OTHER FARMERS IN THE THREE HILLS AREA AND SENDING HER PAY CHEQUE HOME TO HELP OUT THE FAMILY OF SEVEN. SHE CAME TO THE CHAMPION AREA TO WORK FOR LOUIS MUELLER, WHOM, TURNED OUT TO BE HER FATHER-IN-LAW. SHE MARRIED CLAUDE LOUIS MUELLER IN MARCH OF 1944 AND TOGETHER THEY WORKED THE FAMILY MIXED FARM WITH CLAUDE’S FATHER AND TWO BROTHERS, IN THE ALSTON AREA. MARTHA LOVED ALL ASPECTS OF THE FARM LIFE, MILKING COWS, RAISED AND CLEANED CHICKENS. SHE ALSO RAISED PIGS AND GEESE, DROVE COMBINE AND CARRIED OUT MOST REGULAR FARM CHORES.
MARTHA ENJOYED THE REGULAR FAMILY GET TOGETHERS, COOKING, PLAYING CARDS, BASEBALL, JIG SAW PUZZLES, KNITTING, CROCHETING, SEWING,AND WAS VERY RESOURCEFUL. SHE COULD MEND ANYTHING THAT NEEDED MENDING, SHE LOVED LIFE, IN HER EARLY YEARS SHE TRAVELED MANY MILES TO DANCES. MARTHA HAD A KEEN SENSE OF HUMOR. SHE ENJOYED SHARING HER CHILDHOOD STORIES WITH THE FAMILY, ESPECIALLY THE GRANDCHILDREN, TELLING TALES OF HER HALLOWEEN EXPERIENCES.
THEY MOVED TO VULCAN IN 1980 AND SHE CONTINUED TO LIVE IN HER OWN HOME UNTIL MOVING TO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE IN 1997 AND THEN TO EXTENDICARE WHERE HAS RESIDED FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS.
LOVING MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER DONNA (WAYNE) ERICKSEN, GRANDMOTHER OF BRENDA (BRENT) McBEAN OF STRATHMORE AND ERIC AND HIS SPECIAL FRIEND ROXANNE LYCKMAN OF LETHBRIDGE, A BROTHER RUDOLF (ELLA) KRANZLER OF RED DEER, TWO SISTERS NORA LEBSACK OF VULCAN AND PAULINE DREXLER OF DRUMHELLER WHO PASSED AWAY AUGUST 21, 1998, FOUR SISTERS-IN-LAW LIL MUELLER OF B.C., LILY KRANZLER OF CHAMPION, EDNA KRANZLER OF CARBON, PAULINE MUELLER OF VULCAN, A BROTHER-IN-LAW AND SISTER-IN LAW GEORGE (THELMA) MUELLER OF OLDS, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
MARTHA WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND CLAUDE IN 1997, THREE BROTHERS ERNEST, REINHOLD AND AN INFANT BROTHER EMIL, A SISTER RITA (BARNEY) MUELLER, TWO BROTHERS-IN-LAW JOHN DREXLER , EMERY MUELLER, AND HER PARENTS.
A GRAVESIDE SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT CHAMPION CEMETERY MONDAY AUGUST 24, 1998 AT 3:30 P.M. WITH REV. DOUG BARRIE OFFICIATING.
FLOWERS ARE GREATFULLY DECLINED – MEMORIAL TRIBUTES IN MARTHA’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER VULCAN AND DISTRICT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, BOX 299 VULCAN, TOL 2BO OR CHAMPION CEMETERY MAINTENANCE ASSOCIATION BOX 214, CHAMPION, TOL ORO.
VULCAN FUNERAL HOME DIRECTORS, IN CARE OF ARRANGEMENTS. TELEPHONE 485-2633.