LEBSACK, CONRAD, FORMERLY OF VULCAN AND CHAMPION, WAS CALLED HOME TO HIS LORD AND SAVIOUR MAY 9, 1995 AT HIGH RIVER, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 94 YEARS.
CONRAD WAS BORN NOVEMBER 10, 1900 AT BRUNNENDAHL, SAMARA, RUSSIA WERE HE ATTENDED SCHOOL. IN 1911 HE CAME BY SHIP WITH HIS PARENTS TO PHILADELPHIA THEN TO HIS UNCLES FARM IN KANSAS. THEY MOVED TO A FARM IN THE CHAMPION AREA IN 1913 AND A YEAR LATER CON WENT TO WORK FOR A FARMER MILKING COWS, FEEDING PIGS AND OTHER CHORES. HE ALSO HELPED ON OTHER FARMS AND HIS FATHERS FARM. THEN IN DECEMBER 1921 HE MARRIED KATHERINE KONSHUK AFTER A YEAR LIVING WITH THE LEBSACK FAMILY THEY RENTED A FARM FROM BOB TYLER. IN 1925 THEY BOUGHT THEIR OWN FARM AND IN THE SPRING OF 1926 BEGAN FARMING TWELVE MILES NORTHEAST OF CHAMPION WHICH IS NOW FARMED BY EDDIE LEBSACK.
CON RETIRED FROM FARMING IN 1960 AND MOVED TO CALGARY. KATIE PASSED AWAY IN 1972. IN 1975 CON MET AND MARRIED PAULINE ENGEL AND THEY CONTINUED TO RESIDE IN CALGARY UNTIL PAULINE PASSED AWAY. IN 1985 CON MOVED TO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE IN VULCAN WERE HE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
CON ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS HIS SAVIOUR IN 1920. THE FAMILY ATTENDED CHURCH IN THE SCHOOL HOUSE WHERE THERE WAS SUNDAY SCHOOL AND A MORAVIAN PASTOR VISITED ONCE A MONTH. CON WAS A MEMBER OF VULCAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH FROM 1946 AND WHILE IN CALGARY, HE TRANSFERRED TO SALEM EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
BELOVED FATHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS DORIS (RON) ADLER OF ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA AND HELEN (JIM) GRAY OF CARMANGAY, THREE SONS VIC (ESTHER) OF CHAMPION, ELMER (ERNA) OF WEST BANK, B.C AND EDWARD (JOAN) OF LETHBRIDGE, A STEPDAUGHTER, HILDA GRENIER OF CAMROSE, THREE STEP SONS FRED (WANDA) ENGEL OF WINNIPEG, ARTHUR (SYLVIA) ENGEL AND DAVID (VICKY) ENGEL ALL OF CALGARY, A SISTER BERTHA HARTUNG, TWO SISTERS-IN-LAW MARY LEBSACK AND KATIE KONSHUK BOTH OF CALGARY, FIFTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, THIRTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, FOUR GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
CONRAD WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS FIRST WIFE KATHERINE IN 1972, HIS SECOND WIFE PAULINE IN 1985, A SON IRVIN LEBSACK IN 1959, ONE GRANDSON LESLIE, TWO BROTHERS, THREE SISTERS AND HIS PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1995 AT 1 P.M AT VULCAN EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH WITH PASTOR ALVIN ROTH OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS BARRY LEBSACK, BLAINE LEBSACK, DARREL GRAY, DWIGHT GRAY, BRIAN LEBSACK, ALLAN LEBSACK, LAVERNE LEBSACK AND WARREN LEBSACK.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES TO THE VULCAN EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH, BOX 669 VULCAN, T0L 2B0 WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, DIRECTORS.