GILCHRIST, ALICE ELASE, PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL JULY 23, 1992 AT THE AGE OF 92 YEARS.
ALICE WAS BORN JUNE 22, 1900 AT PORT WAYNE, WISCONSIN. IN 1905 SHE CAME WITH HER FAMILY TO THE PARKLAND AREA, WHERE THEY BEGAN FARMING. IN 1922 SHE MET AND MARRIED HENRY GILCHRIST AND THEY FARMED WEST OF CAYLEY UNTIL THEY MOVED TO CALGARY IN I941. THEN IN 1968 SHE CAME TO CHAMPION AND IN 1985 SHE MOVED TO VULCAN EXTENDICARE WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
ALICE WAS THE SECOND YOUNGEST IN A FAMILY OF SEVEN CHILDREN, FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. SHE LOVED LIFE AND MADE THE MOST OF ALL SITUATIONS, WITH A VERY KEEN SENSE OF HUMOUR. SHE WAS ALWAYS HANDY WITH A JOKE OR PRANK. SHE ENJOYED COOKING WILD MEAT OF ALL SORTS ESPECIALLY PORCUPINE. SHE TRIED EVERY HANDICRAFT THERE WAS, INCLUDING LAWN ORNAMENTS, BUT MOST OF ALL CROCHETING WAS THE ONE SHE DID THE MOST OF, WITH A WALL FULL OF HER WORK. SHE ALSO ENJOYED GARDENING AND HOUSE PLANTS.
ALICE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHAMPION LADIES AUXILIARY TO THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION.
BELOVED MOTHER OF TWO SONS ROBERT AND HIS WIFE VERNA OF KAMLOOPS AND THOMAS OF CHAMPION, TWELVE GRANDCHILDREN, TWENTY-FIVE GREAT GRAND CHILDREN AND A GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILD, A SISTER-IN-LAW MARTHA ELD OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND HENRY, A SON BILLY, A DAUGHTER ELIZABETH SLETTO, FIVE BROTHERS LEONARD, THEODORE, ALBERT, ELMER AND ERNEST, TWO SISTERS ALICE AND A BABY SISTER, TWO GREAT GREAT GRAND CHILDREN LAURA SLETTO AND CHANTELL GILCHRIST AND HER PARENTS CHARLES AND ELLA ELD.
FUNERAL SERVICE TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1992 AT 11:00 A.M. AT THE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH, CHAMPION WITH REV. ANDY BLACK OFFICIATING. INTERMENT AT 3:00 P.M. AT MT. VIEW MEMORIAL GARDENS, CALGARY.
HONOURARY PALLBEARERS WERE DOREEN TOKER, MARION SLETTO, DON NEWMAN AND KATHY KRASMAN. ACTIVE PALLBEARERS WERE PAT LATTERY, TOM ELD, JOHN GILCHRIST, STAN GILCHRIST, BOB CROWE AND MARVIN QUASCHNICK.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, DONATIONS TO THE ALBERTA HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION 1825 PARK RD. S.E. CALGARY T2G 3Y6 WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, 403-485-2633.