MCROBERTS, FRIEDA BERTHA PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN EXTENDICARE JUNE 17, 1993 AT THE AGE OF 101 YEARS.
FRIEDA WAS BORN AT LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN. AFTER FINISHING SCHOOL, SHE WORKED IN A RUBBER MILL IN LA CROSSE, THEN AS A SALES CLERK AT THE HANDKERCHIEF COUNTER IN WOOLWORTH’S IN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.
WHILE VISITING HERMAN RELATIVES IN THE VULCAN AREA IN 1915, SHE MET JOHN MCROBERTS, A HOMESTEADER FROM TILLSONBURG, ONTARIO. THEY WERE MARRIED JUNE 6, 1916 IN LA CROSSE. THEY WERE BLESSED WITH A DAUGHTER KATHLEEN, BORN IN 1917. JOHN AND FRIEDA FARMED IN THE KIRKDALE DISTRICT UNTIL RETIRING TO VULCAN IN 1950, WHERE JOHN DIED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS. FRIEDA CONTINUED TO RESIDE IN VULCAN UNTIL HER DEATH AT THE AGE OF 101 YEARS.
SHE WAS A PAST MEMBER OF REID HILL WOMEN’S INSTITUTE, UFA, FRIENDSHIP CLUB AND BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH WHERE SHE HAD BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN HER YOUNGER YEARS.
BELOVED MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER KATHLEEN DOELING OF EDMONTON, LOVING GRANDMOTHER OF LINDA (BRIAN) BROWNLEE OF BURLINGTON, ONTARIO, TWO GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN SHANNON AND DAVID, A NIECE MRS. GRETCHEN SCHWARZ OF LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN, AND NUMEROUS GREAT NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND JOHN, TWO BROTHERS JOHN AND WILL, A SISTER ANNA, HER FATHER JOHN HERMAN AND MOTHER CAROLINE (nee; WILL).
FUNERAL SERVICE MONDAY JUNE 21, 1993 AT 1:30 P.M. AT BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH, VULCAN WITH REV. MURV KENTEL OFFICIATING. INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
ANNOUNCEMENTS; LUNCHEON FOLLOWING THE INTERMENT IN THE LOWER CHURCH HALL.
CASKET BEARERS DAVID BROWNLEE, KENNETH HEALY, LLOYD HEALY, DAVID HEALY, GLEN SCHMEELKE AND SHELDON GRANT.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES TO EITHER THE LUTHERAN HOUR C/O BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH, VULCAN, AB. OR THE CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.