LOUISE SANDBERG PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE OCTOBER 25, 1995 AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS.
LOUISE WAS BORN DECEMBER 24, 1916 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA. SHE ATTENDED TWIN COULEE SCHOOL WHICH WAS FOUR MILES FROM HER HOME, AND THE TREK WAS EITHER WALKED, ON HORSE BACK OR IN A ONE-HORSE TWO WHEELED CART OR BUGGY. ONE PROJECT FOR THE SCHOOL FAIR WAS COLLECTING GOPHER TAILS. ON THE WAY HOME FROM SCHOOL, LOUISE AND HER FRIENDS WOULD SNARE GOPHERS AND SAVE THE TAILS. ONE PARTICULAR DAY THEY ARRIVED HOME A LITTLE LATE – ABOUT 6:30 P.M. AS THERE WERE NO PHONES, THE PARENTS WERE QUITE WORRIED. LOUISE SAID THAT WAS THE LAST TIME THEY TRIED THAT. LOUISE DID A LOT OF BABY SITTING FOR FARM NEIGHBOURS AND IT WAS DURING A TIME WHILE BABY SITTING SHE MET GEORGE HENRY SANDBERG. THEY WERE MARRIED AT VULCAN, DECEMBER 1937. TOGETHER THEY FARMED THE RAY LIND PROPERTY UNTIL THE LAND WAS SOLD IN 1958. THEY MOVED INTO VULCAN IN 1960 AND TO THEIR PRESENT ADDRESS IN 1963. THE FOLLOWING YEAR LOUISE WAS EMPLOYED AT EXTENDICARE, FORMERLY KNOWN AS BLUNT’S NURSING HOME AND THEN PARKLAND NURSING HOME WHERE SHE CONTINUED TO WORK FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS, UNTIL 1983 WHEN SHE RETIRED.
LOUISE LOVED HER FAMILY, ESPECIALLY HER GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SHE ENJOYED MEETING AND TALKING WITH PEOPLE. LOUISE WAS A MEMBER OF THE VULCAN DROP-IN CENTRE AND VULCAN UNITED CHURCH. SHE WAS A PAST MEMBER OF THE VULCAN WEST WOMEN’S INSTITUTE AND VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WOMEN. SHE LOVED NATURE, HER PLANTS AND CAMPING ESPECIALLY AT PARK LAKE, LITTLE BOW PARK AND IN THE FOOTHILLS.
BELOVED WIFE OF GEORGE SANDBERG OF VULCAN AND LOVING MOTHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS JOYCE (LARRY) KREUTZ OF LETHBRIDGE AND SHIRLEY (GORD) GOLDHAWK OF VULCAN, A SON GEORGE JR. OF VULCAN, EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN, LAWRENA, TRACEY, KELLY, CHERYL, TROY, ROBIN, RICK AND SHAWN, FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AMANDA, KEVIN, RIKKI, RONNIE AND LAWRENCE, A SISTER OLGA PATRIQUIN OF CLARESHOLM, TWO SISTERS-IN-LAW GUNVOR AND ANNA SANDBERG OF THER OF NORWAY, A BROTHER-IN-LAW ARCHIE SLADE OF ECKVILLE, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
LOUISE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER PARENTS JACOB AND HERMINE, TWO SONS BRYAN IN 1952 AND RON IN 1987, TWO SISTERS SOPHIA JORSTAD IN 1989 AND ETHEL SLADE IN 1988 A BROTHER CHARLIE, A GRANDSON BRADLEY, TWO BROTHERS-IN-LAW HANS AND MAGNAR, A SISTER-IN-LAW ASTRID AND A NEPHEW BRUCE IN 1992.
FUNERAL SERVICE SATURDAY OCTOBER 28, 1995 AT 2 P.M AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. DON WATT OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT IN FOLLOW AT VULCAN CEMETERY.
HONOURARY BEARERS; RAY RANGER, ARCHIE SLADE, LAWRENCE PATRIQUIN AND DAVID ANDERSON.
CASKET BEARERS; TROY KREUTZ, SHAWN GOLDHAWK, RICK GOLDHAWK, RAY PATRIQUIN, NIGEL SLADE AND JIM SLADE.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, FRIENDS MAY MAKE DONATIONS TO THE PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT C/O BOX 299, VULCAN T0L 2B0.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.