PARSLOW, ROBERT STEWART “BOB” A LIFE LONG RESIDENT OF VULCAN, ALBERTA PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL MARCH 19, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 75 YEARS.
BOB WAS BORN AUGUST 16, 1918 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT VULCAN. IN 1943 BOB MARRIED ANNABEL LYONS. HE DROVE SCHOOL BUS FOR MANY YEARS AND THEY FARMED NORTH OF VULCAN UNTIL THEY DIVORCED IN 1966. BOB CONTINUED TO RESIDE ON THE FARM UNTIL MOVING INTO TOWN IN 1976 AND FINALLY RETIRED FROM FARMING IN 1990.
BOB ENJOYED BEING A FARM MANAGER, HIRING HIS WORK DONE. AT ONE TIME HE HAD CONTRACTED SOME CUSTOM FARMING AND WAS MANAGER OVER TWENTY MEN.
BOB ENJOYED BEING WITH PEOPLE AT THE COFFEE SHOP AND AT THE LEGION, WHERE HE ALSO ENJOYED PLAYING THE PULL TICKETS. HE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION, BRANCH 21 AND A LIFE MEMBER OF B.P.O. ELKS LODGE #121 IN VULCAN. IN HIS EARLY YEARS, HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS MILITARY RESERVE. HE WAS ALSO A COLLECTOR OF CARS AND COMBINES OF WHICH HE HAD DREAMS TO REBUILD SOME DAY.
BELOVED FATHER OF A DAUGHTER DONNA SPANKE AND HER COMMON-LAW HUSBAND JIM GRAFF OF VULCAN, A SON ERROL (CHARLENE) PARSLOW OF CARSTAIRS, SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN LORI, LYLE, BILL, ALLAN, LAURIE, ROSS AND TRACY, THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN CHANCE. CODY AND KYNDRILYN AND A SISTER LYNETTA OF VULCAN.
BOB WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS FATHER RICHARD “DICK” IN 1946, MOTHER JOSEPHA IN 1973 AND TWO INFANT BROTHERS.
FUNERAL SERVICE WEDNESDAY MARCH 23, 1994 AT 3 P.M. AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. BEVERLY HILL OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
HONORARY BEARERS LYLE HUBBARD, BOB GERDING, LEROY BRANDEN, HENRY HANSEN, CARSON MCKAY AND CLAYTON CLARKSON.
CASKET BEARERS BILL GRAFF, ALLAN GRAFF, ROSS PARSLOW, LYLE SPANKE, MAX KEHR AND FRANK HUNT.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES TO THE ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION 1331-29 ST. N.W. CALGARY T2N 9Z9.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.