DOUGLAS, MARIE ALEXANDRA FABIOLA “FABIE” PASSED AWAY JULY 15, 1994 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 76 YEARS.
BELOVED WIFE OF JACK DOUGLAS OF ARROWWOOD, SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER, ALL IN QUEBEC, THREE STEP GRANDCHILDREN, NUMEROUS NIECES, INCLUDING A CLOSE NIECE NICOLE FAILLE AND NEPHEWS, HER SPECIAL FRIENDS INCLUDING LYNN HAYES OF STAVELY AND SHIRLEY KOOLE OF ARROWWOOD.
FABIE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER PARENTS PIERRE AND MARIE (nee:RICHARD) BRENIER, SEVEN SISTERS AND SIX BROTHERS.
FABIE WAS BORN FEBRUARY 27, 1918 AT ST.MARCEL, QUEBEC. SHE LIVED IN MONTREAL AND WHILE THERE SHE WORKED AS A MODEL THEN AT EMPLOYMENT CANADA. SHE ALSO ENJOYED THE FINE ARTS INCLUDING THEATRE AND THE SYMPHONY.
SHE CAME TO LAKE LOUISE TO WORK AND HER FIRST JOB WAS AT THE CHATEAU LAKE LOUISE HOTEL THEN AT THE LAKE LOUISE TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE. FABIE LOVED TO SEW – SHE SEWED ALL OF HER OWN CLOTHES. WHILE IN MONTREAL, SHE WAS APPROACHED TO SEW COSTUMES FOR THE ICE CAPADES, AN OFFER SHE DECLINED. IT WAS WHILE SHE WAS LIVING IN LAKE LOUISE, SHE MET JOHN HENRY “JACK” DOUGLAS AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN BANFF, NOVEMBER 1959. THEY MOVED TO ARROWWOOD IN 1971 AND HAVE RESIDED THERE SINCE.
FABIE WAS A PROPER LADY WHO ENJOYED HER TIME IN HER HOME LISTENING TO LOUD CLASSICAL MUSIC, SEWING, KNITTING, SMOCKING, NEEDLEPOINT AND READING MURDER MYSTERIES. THE FRIENDSHIPS SHE HAD WERE VERY CLOSE. SHE WILL BE MISSED BY THOSE WHO WERE CLOSE TO HER.
A SERVICE AT ARROWWOOD UNITED CHURCH WAS HELD SATURDAY JULY 23, 1994 AT 4 P.M. WITH FRANK JOHNSON L.M. OFFICIATING.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.