LARKINS, EDMUND PATRICK PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL AUGUST 28, 1991 AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS.
ED WAS BORN JULY 26, 1908 AT SMITH FALLS, ONTARIO, MOVING TO CHAMPION WITH HIS FATHER PATRICK JOHN LARKINS, WHEN HE WAS A VERY SMALL BOY. HE GREW UP IN CHAMPION AND MOVED TO THEIR FIRST FARM. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT PROSPECT SLOPE, REID HILL AND VULCAN FOR HIGH SCHOOL. HE MARRIED ROSE ALBERTA BREWSTER OF FORT MCLEOD. IN 1942 THEY MOVED WITH HIS YOUNG FAMILY TO THE HENRY HORN FARM SOUTH EAST OF VULCAN. AND IN 1958 ED AND HIS SON ALVIN PURCHASED THE HENRY LEBSACK FARM WHERE HE CONTINUED TO LIVE UNTIL MOVING INTO VULCAN IN 1968 AND IN 1971 SOLD THE FARM AND RETIRED IN VULCAN. IN 1983 HE MOVED INTO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE WHERE HE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
ED ENJOYED MANY ACTIVITIES IN HIS YOUNGER DAYS INCLUDING BALL, DANCING, FISHING, PLAYING CARDS, BUT MOST OF ALL HE REALLY ENJOYED FARMING. SUNDAY’S WERE A SPECIAL DAY FOR VISITING NEIGHBOURS. HE WAS A MEMBER OF UNITED FARMERS OF ALBERTA AND ALBERTA WHEAT POOL.
BELOVED FATHER OF FOUR DAUGHTERS, MARLENE SOBY, YULONDE ( LYLE) WALTERS ALL OF CALGARY, MARJORIE (DAVID) SANDE OF LOMOND, FLORENCE (BEN) BROWN OF LETHBRIDGE, FOUR SONS IRVINE (GOLDIE), DONALD (JACKIE) ALL OF CALGARY, ALVIN (JEANETTE) OF VULCAN AND NORMAN OF CLEAR BROOK, B.C., 20 GRANDCHILDREN, 18 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
ED WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS WIFE ALBERTA IN 1983, A SISTER OLIVE (COLLISON) WATT, AND A BROTHER KENNETH.
FUNERAL SERVICE FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 AT 1:30 P.M. AT THE CENTRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, VULCAN WITH REV. DOUG BARRIE OFFICIATING. INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, DONATIONS TO THE ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION 1331-29 ST. N.W. CALGARY, T2N 9Z9 WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
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