MARSHMAN, HOWARD VICTOR PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY MAY 19, 1997 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 86 YEARS.
HOWARD WAS BORN MAY 23, 1910 AT TROWBRIDGE, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND TO CLIFFORD AND ELIZABETH (nee: WEKIN S) MARSHMAN. HOWARD CAME WITH HIS FATHER TO CANADA IN MARCH OF 1921, SETTLING NEAR THE LITTLE BOW RIVER, EAST OF CHAMPION. THEY LIVED ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT FARMS IN THE AREA UNTIL PURCHASING A FARM ONE MILE EAST OF VULCAN. HOWARD MARRIED MILDRED DANN IN AUGUST OF 1949 AND MOVED TO THE FARM TWO MILES EAST AND ONE AND THREE QUARTER MILES NORTH OF VULCAN. THEY RAISED THREE CHILDREN AND MOVED INTO VULCAN IN APRIL OF 1971. LATER IN 1973 HOWARD RETIRED AND SOLD THE FARM.
AT AN EARLY AGE HOWARD LEARNED ABOUT FISHING FIRST, AS A MAIN SOURCE OF NOURISHIVIENT BECAUSE THAT’S ALL THERE WAS TO EAT, AND LATER AS A SOURCE OF RELAXATION AND RECREATION. HE ALSO ENJOYED CAMPING AND BIG GAME HUNTING SO MUCH THAT EVERY YEAR, TRIPS TO A STREAM OR LAKE WERE PLANNED NO MATTER WHAT. HE WOULD OFTEN BE IN THE COMPANY OF HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. WHILE IN CAMP HOWARD WAS OFTEN THE CHIEF COOK, WHICH HE ALSO ENJOYED DOING. HE WAS VERY FUSSY ABOUT THE CONDITION OF THE CAMP, THAT ALL THINGS BE KEPT NEAT AND TIDY. FROM ONE OF THESE TRIPS HE CAME TO BE CALLED “MOTHER” BY HIS FELLOW HUNTING BUDDIES . THE NAME STAYED WITH HIM AND HE HAS BEEN KNOWN AND CALLED MOTHER BY MANY FRIENDS AND CAMPERS SINCE.
HOWARD LOVED HIS FAMILY AND SPENDING TIME WITH THEM AND THEIR FRIENDS, SHARING FISHING AND HUNTING STORIES, EXPERIENCES AND TEACHING THEM HIS SKILLS. HE WILL BE MISSED BY ALL WHO HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO SPEND TIME WITH HIM.
HOWARD WAS AN HONOURARY MEMBER OF THE VULCAN SENIOR CITIZENS CENTRE, WHERE HE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER UP UNTIL THE PAST TWO YEARS. HE WAS THE LAST SURVIVING OF SIX MEN WHO BUILT THE ORIGINAL SENIORS CENTRE. HE WAS PAST MEMBER OF THE VULCAN LION’S CLUB AND A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE VULCAN AND DISTRICT FISH AND GAME ASSOCIATION.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF MRS. MILDRED MARSHMAN OF VULCAN, LOVING FATHER OF A DAUGHTER EVELYN PERLEY AND HER SPECIAL FRIEND BROCK FISHER OF VULCAN, TWO SONS GORDON (ANN) OF HIGH RIVER, EARL (SUSIE) OF FORT MACLEOD, SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, CHAD (KATHY) PERLEY, SHANNON PERLEY AND SPECIAL FRIEND DARREN SHARP, KOREY (SELENA) MARSHMAN, KEVIN MARSHMAN, JANA (MIKE) PANSKY, WAYDE MARSHMAN AND FIANCEE RISA FRITZ, GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER MACKENZIE, AND BROTHER DON MARSHMAN OF VULCAN.
HOWARD WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS SISTER PHYLLIS ( EARL) ERICKSEN, BROTHER LESLIE ( MARGARET) MARSHMAN, GRANDSON BLAKE MARSHMAN AND HIS PARENTS.
GRAVESIDE SERVICE FRIDAY MAY 23, 1997 AT 10:30 A.M. AT MOUNTAIN VIEW MEMORIAL GARDENS, 17TH AVE. AT GARDEN ROAD S.E. CALGARY WITH REV. DON WATT OFFICIATING.
CASKET BEARERS WERE GORDON MARSHMAN, EARL MARSHMAN, CHAD PERLEY, WAYDE MARSHMAN, KOREY MARSHMAN AND KEVIN MARSHMAN.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES IN HOWARD’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE VULCAN SENIOR CITIZEN CENTRE, C/O BOX 36 VULCAN, ALBERTA, T0L 2B0.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.