RAST, DORIS EVELYN (NEE: SCHNELL) PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL AUGUST 27, 1995 AT THE AGE OF 55 YEARS.
DORIS WAS BORN ON AUGUST 19, 1940 IN ESTEVAN, SASKATCHEWAN. SHE GREW UP ON A FARM WITH THREE SISTERS AND A BROTHER IN QUNGRE WHERE SHE ATTENDED HIGH SCHOOL. THEN OFF TO THE BIG CITY OF REGINA. SHE LIVED WITH HER DEAR GRANDMA JOHNSON WHILE SHE TOOK HER TRAINING AS AN XRAY TECHNICIAN. SHE ATTENDED FOUR YEARS OF BIBLE COLLEGE IN REGINA AND PAMBURN AND GRADUATE WITH A BACHELOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION DEGREE. SHE WORKED AS AN X-RAY TECHNICIAN IN REGINA, WEYBURN, PRINCE ALBERT, SHAUNAVON, CALGARY AND VULCAN.
SHE MET ERNIE IN I970 WHICH ENCOURAGED HER TO MOVED TO CALGARY WHERE SHE WORKED AT THE FOOTHTLLS HOSPITAL. SOON THE FAMILY HEARD THERE WERE MANY TRIPS TO A FARM AT ENSIGN. SO THE FAMILY CAME TO CHECK IT OUT. WE ALL ARRIVED WITH OUR TENT TRAILERS!
AFTER A WEEKEND OF CAMPFIRES, GUITAR PLAYING, SINGING, A MOCK STAGE ROBBERY, HORSEBACK RIDING AND CHORES, ERNIE WAS APPROVED. THEY WERE MARRIED OCTOBER 7, 1972 IN REGINA. THEY WERE BLESSED WITH A PRECIOUS SON, TIMOTHY ON OCTOBER 22, 1974. WE THE FAMILY, SPENT MANY GREAT WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS AT THE “LITTLE PROFIT RANCH”. WE ESPECIALLY REMEMBER THE CHRISTMAS OF 1985, WHEN THEY MOVED INTO THEIR NEW HOUSE. DORIS AND ERNIE’S HOME WAS NEVER TOO SMALL TO ACCOMMODATE ANY NUMBERS OF PEOPLE INCLUDING ALL 26 OF US. WE WERE AWAKENED EARLY EVERY MORNING WITH COCK-A-DOODLE~DO’S, DONKEY’S BRAYING, COWS MOOING, PIGS OINKING AND THE SOUNDS OF MANY OTHER ANIMALS. A FEW OF THE ACTIVITIES WERE MILKING COWS, HAY RIDES, PLAYING HIDE AND GO SEEK AND A FEAST OF DORIS’S WONDERFUL HOME COOKING AND BAKING.
DORIS WAS A VERY GIFTED PERSON. SHE HAD MANY HOBBIES INCLUDING SEWING, CROSS STITCH, PHOTOGRAPHY, GARDENING, CHURCH MINISTRIES AND HER TALENTS ARE DISPLAYED THROUGHOUT THEIR FARM. DORIS ALSO PLAYED A VERY ACTIVE ROLL IN THE CHURCH AND COMMUNITY. SHE WAS A THOUGHTFUL AND GENEROUS PERSON, ALWAYS REMEMBERING BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES AND OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS. TO THE FAMILY AND ALL WHO KNEW HER, DORIS WAS A VERY LOVING AND GIVING PERSON. SHE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF OTHERS BEFORE HERSELF.
DORIS WE LOVE YOU AND WILL MISS YOU DEARLY.
BELOVED WIFE OF ERNIE RAST OF VULCAN, LOVING MOTHER OF A SON TIMOTHY OF CALGARY, DAUGHTER OF RAGNA SCHNELL OF REGINA ALSO, THREE SISTERS JANET MICHEL OF CALGARY, PHYLLIS (CLIFF) OLSON OF LANGLEY AND KAREN (DENNIS) LARSEN OF CALGARY, A BROTHER GARY (MARLENE) SCHNELL OF REGINA, A DEAR AUNT MABLE JOHNSON, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
DORIS WAS PREDECEASED BY HER FATHER FRANK SCHNELL IN 1958, GRANDPARENTS, A BROTHER~IN-LAW ISADOR MICHEL IN 1991.
FUNERAL SERVICE WEDNESDAY AUGUST 30, 1995 AT 1:30 P.M. AT VULCAN EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH WITH REV. FRANK HARRIS OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT THURSDAY AUGUST 31, 1995 AT GREEN ACRES MEMORIAL GARDENS, WEYBURN, SASKATCHEWAN.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS IN DORIS’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER THE VULCAN E.M. CHURCH HANDICAP ACCESS RAMP, BOX 669, OR VULCAN EXTENDICARE AUXILIARY BOX 810 , VULCAN T0L 2B0.
VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, DIRECTORS. TELEPHONE 403~485~2633.