RUBY GRICE, WAS CALLED HOME TO HER LORD AND SAVIOUR FEBRUARY 27, 1997 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 93 YEARS.
RUBY WAS BORN DECEMBER 9, 1902 AT ALSHAM, SASKATCHEWAN, AND SHE RECEIVED HER SCHOOLING AT THE ALSHAM SCHOOL. SHE MARRIED HUBERT WILLIAM KING IN 1920 AT CARROT RIVER, SASKATCHEWAN. THEY MOVED TO SASKATOON WHERE RUBY OWNED AND OPERATED A HAIR DRESSING SHOP IN SASKATOON AND LATER THEY MOVED TO PRINCE ALBERT. RUBY AND HER HUSBAND THEN MOVED TO VICTORIA. HUBERT PASSED AWAY IN I954. IN 1981 SHE MARRIED HER SECOND HUSBAND ROBERT REVERE GRICE. TOGETHER THEY RESIDED IN VICTORIA, B.C. UNTIL ROBERT PASSED AWAY IN I986. SHE MOVED FROM VICTORIA TO CALGARY FOR A SHORT TII\/IE, AND THEN TO HIGH RIVER TO LIVE WITH HER DAUGHTER UNTIL BEING ACCEPTED TO THE VULCAN EXTENDICARE IN JUNE 1991, WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
RUBY LOVED HER FAMILY ESPECIALLY SON-IN-LAW AND HER GRANDCHILDREN. SHE ENJOYED THEIR MANY TRIPS WITH HER SON-IN-LAW TO COCHRANE FOR ICE CREAM. SHE ENJOYED TO SPENDING TIME STUDYING THE WORD OF THE LORD. WHILE IN VICTORIA SHE ATTENDED THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH AND WHILE RESIDING IN HIGH RIVER ATTENDED CHURCH WITH HER DAUGHTER.
BELOVED MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER MARY AND HER HUSBAND BRUCE HEWITT OF GRAND FORKS, B.C. TEN GRANDCHILDREN, TWO SISTERS BESSY OF YAKIMA, WASHINGTON AND MARGARET OF SOUTH DAKOTA, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER FIRST HUSBAND HUBERT WILLIAM KING IN 1954, SECOND HUSBAND ROBERT GRICE IN 1986, TWO SONS ALLAN KING AND HARRY KING, A BROTHER TED WALLINGTON, A SISTER MAE AND HER PARENTS.
AT RUBY’S REQUEST THERE WILL BE A CELEBRATION OF HER LIFE SERVICE AT THE VULCAN EXTENDICARE WHERE SHE TRULY FELT AT HOME, ON MONDAY MARCH 3, 1997 AT 2:30 P.M. WITH FATHER LONG VU OFFICIATING.
INURNMENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT GRAND FORKS CEMETERY AT A LATER DATE.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES IN RUBY’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO S.A.V.E. (SENIOR ASSOCIATION OF VULCAN EXTENDICARE) , BOX 810, VULCAN, T0L 2B0, OR TO THE ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA 218A, 2323-32 AVE. N.E. CALGARY, ALBERTA T2E 6Z3.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. TELEPHONE 1-403-485-2633.