INA ELENA ULLY PASSED AWAY ON APRIL 12, 1995 IN THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL, VULCAN, ALBERTA.
INA WAS BORN IN KANGASNIEMI, FINLAND ON SEPTEMBER 20. 1922 TO AUTU AND HILMA MARTINNEN. SHE CAME TO KIMBERLY, B.C. IN 1923 AT THE AGE OF 3 YEARS. SHE COULD SPEAK BOTH LANGUAGES, AND TRANSACTED MOST OF HER PARENTS BUSINESS. SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT CARMANGAY WERE SHE WAS ACTIVE IN MOST ALL SPORTS. SHE RECEIVED AN AWARD FOR PUBLIC ADDRESSING, THAN CONTINUED HER EDUCATION BY ATTENDING SECRETARY SCHOOL IN CALGARY. IT WAS DURING THAT TIME SHE WAS OFFERED A POSITION WITH THE ROYAL CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, AND WHEN THE COMMANDING OFFICER REVIEWED HER APPLICATION, THE HIGHEST IQ APPLICATION HE HAD RECEIVED, ASKED HER WHICH POSITION SHE WOULD LIKE? SHE SAID SECRETARY, HE SAID WELL JUST KEEP THAT OPEN, SHE WAS ACCEPTED AND GIVEN A JOB. IT WAS AT THAT TIME, WITH BUS TICKET IN HAND TO BOARD THE BUS, SHE MET EDWARD. SHE TORE UP THE BUS TICKET AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN NOVEMBER 1943. TOGETHER THEY FARMED AT BAR HILL UNTIL MOVING TO VULCAN IN 1951, WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
INA WAS A LOVING, KIND, PRIVATE PERSON WITH HIGH MORALS, WHO WOULD HELP WHERE EVER NEEDED. SHE LOVED HER FAMILY, ESPECIALLY THE GRAND AND GREAT GRAND CHILDREN. SHE LOVED ALL CHILDREN. SHE LOVED TO COOK AND ALWAYS HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR VISITORS. SHE HAD A SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP WITH A BIBLE STUDY GROUP. SHE ENJOYED THEIR COMPANY AND STUDYING THE BIBLE. INA WAS A CARE GIVER. SHE WAS SHOWN AT AN EARLY AGE WHILE AT HOME WITH HER PARENTS, THEY WERE ALWAYS THERE FOR HER AND IN TURN SHE WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR HER CHILDREN. SHE CONTINUALLY WOULD TEACH THE CHILDREN SHE WAS WITH, TO ALWAYS DO WHAT WAS RIGHT NO MATTER WHAT THE COST AND THAT THE WORLD IS A GOOD TEACHER. SHE WAS ALWAYS A HOMEMAKER BUT IF SHE WERE TO HAVE A PROFESSION, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A TEACHER. INA ENJOYED WRITING LETTERS, WHICH WERE ACTUALLY STORIES, COMPLETE WITH HAND PAINTED WATER COLOUR PICTURES.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND EDWARD ULLY AND FAMILY, PAT STREET (KEN) OF VULCAN, BEV DEBIELEW (STAN) OF NEW NORWAY, ALBERTA, BRIAN ULLY (MARGO) OF VULCAN, DON ULLY (BRENDA) OF HIGH RIVER, AND ROBERT ULLY OF VULCAN, SEVENTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND A SISTER EILEEN SUOMI OF BURNABY, B.C.
INA WAS PREDECEASED BY TWO SONS GARY AND JERRY. TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN DARIN HANNA AND RORY FERNELL AND TWO BROTHERS BILL AND EINO MARTINNEN.
FUNERAL SERVICE SATURDAY APRIL 15, 1995 AT 10 A.M. AT BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH, VULCAN. WITH PASTOR MURV KENTEL OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT FAMILY PLOT VULCAN CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS EDWIN HANNA. RYAN ULLY, COMMODORE ALLEN, SHAWN HANNA. JEFFERY ULLY, KEVIN HANNA, JASON ULLY, GARY ABREY, DEREK ULLY, AND MICHAEL ULLY.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE FAMILY COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES, FOOD BANK, VULCAN.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, DIRECTORS.