BEAUBIER, LOUISE MARGARET PASSED AWAY AT FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL IN CALGARY ON JUNE 14, 1989 AT THE AGE OF 89 YEARS.
LOUISE (NEE MARONDE) WAS BORN AT BLUMENTHOL, GERMANY ON MARCH 18, 1900. SHE CAME TO MINOT, N.D. WITH HER FAMILY IN 1908 AND MOVED TO THE LOMOND AREA WHERE HER UNCLE CARL MARONDE AND FAMILY FARMED. IN 1921, SHE MARRIED HARVEY IN A SMALL CHURCH IN LETHBRIDGE (WHICH NO LONGER STANDS). THEY DROVE TO LETHBRIDGE BY HORSE AND TOP BUGGY DRAWN BY TWO HORSES CALLED DOLLY AND TONY. HARVEY AND LOUISE ESTABLISHED A HOME ON THE JOHNSON LAND DOWN ON THE LITTLE BOW RIVER WHICH IS NOW PART OF LITTLE BOW PARK. THEY HAD CATTLE, HORSES AND POULTRY. LOUISE ENJOYED RIDING HORSEBACK AND HELPED ON THE FARM AND RANCH. SHE WAS A VERY GOOD MARKSWOMAN AND LIKED HUNTING RABBITS AND GOPHERS. LATER, THEY MOVED TO THE HIGHLAND AREA NEAR LITTLE BOW PARK, WHERE HER DAUGHTER LUCILLE GREW UP. SHE HAD A PAL, A CAT NAMED SNOWBALL, AND A DOG NAMED TRIXIE, WHO WERE HER CONSTANT COMPANIONS AND HELPED HER KEEP TRACK OF LUCILLE IN THE WHEAT FIELDS. LATER, HARVEY AND LOUISE MOVED TO A FARM 1 ½ MILES WEST OF CHAMPION WHERE THEY FARMED UNTIL RETIRING IN 1982. WHILE ON THE FARM, THEY HAD LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY AND RAISED DUCKS. LOUISE WOULD GET UP SEVERAL TIMES IN THE NIGHT TO ATTEND TO THE NEW CHICKS AS THE BROODER STOVE HAD TO BE ATTENDED TO COME SPRING. MANY HOURS WERE SPENT MAKING COTTAGE CHEESE AND COMBINING ROLLED OATS TO NOURISH THE CHICKS. LOUISE ALSO MILKED THE COWS AND TENDED A LARGE GARDEN.
HER HOBBIES WERE TO RAISE ALL TYPES OF FLOWERS FOR OUTSIDE IN THE YARD AND HOUSEPLANTS IN THE WINTER. SHE SPENT MANY HOURS BAKING AND WAS WELL KNOWN FOR HER BREAD, CINNAMON BUNS AND DOUGHNUTS. SHE WAS AN EXCELLENT COOK. LOUISE LOVED TO CROCHET AND DO ALL FORMS OF NEEDLEWORK AND EMBROIDERY. SHE PREFERRED DOING THESE THINGS TO WATCHING TV. SHE ENJOYED PEOPLE STOPPING BY FOR TEA OR DINNER AND ALWAYS HAD THE KETTLE READY.
LOUISE WILL BE SADLY MISSED BY HER TWO DAUGHTERS AND SONS-IN-LAW – LUCILLE AND JOHN KRASMAN AND AILEEN AND NELSON MACDONALD, HER GRANDCHILDREN – JULY AND LARRY KRASMAN, ONE SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LA, MARTHA AND FRANK BEAUBIER AND A SISTER-IN-LAW RETA LONG, ALL OF CALGARY, HER NIECES, NEPHEWS AND COUSINS.
LOUISE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND HARVEY IN SEPTEMBER OF 1982, TWO SISTERS – ELSIE WILLIAMS OF CHAMPION AND HELEN WALKER OF CRESTON, BC (FORMERLY OF LOMOND).
FUNERAL SERVICES AT CHAMPION UNITED CHURCH ON MONDAY, JUNE 19 AT 2 PM WITH REV. ERNIE ROBERTS OFFICIATING. INTERMENT AT CHAMPION CEMETERY.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATION MAY BE MADE TO THE TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE, 1331 – 29 ST. NW, CALGARY, AB, T2N 4N2.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.