BOOSE, MARY EDITH PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL FEBRUARY 15, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 94 YEARS.
EDITH WAS BORN JANUARY 24, 1900 AT LIMA, OHIO AND CAME TO NANTON WITH HER SISTER RUTH AND THEIR PARENTS, HENRY FRANKLIN BOOSE AND MARY ESTHER (nee: RINEHART) IN THE SPRING OF 1909. THEY SETTLED ON THE FARM 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NANTON.
EDITH ATTENDED AUBURN PUBLIC SCHOOL, CHAMPION AND CALGARY HIGH SCHOOLS. SHE ENTERED CALGARY NORMAL SCHOOL IN THE FALL OF 1923-24 AND THERE BECAME A TEACHER. SHE BEGAN TEACHING SCHOOL AT EASTWAY, VULCAN AND TURNER VALLEY AND AFTER THIRTY-NINE AND A HALF YEARS OF TEACHING SHE RETIRED IN 1963 AND LIVED OUT HER RETIREMENT YEARS IN VULCAN. IN 1989 SHE MOVED INTO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE UNTIL 1993 WHEN SHE MOVED INTO THE VULCAN HOSPITAL WHERE SHE HAS REMAINED SINCE.
EDITH WAS A MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, VULCAN. SHE TRAVELLED TO INUVIK IN 1971 AND IN 1975. CANADA’S FAR NORTH WAS A PLACE SHE TRULY ENJOYED.
EDITH IS SURVIVED BY A COUSIN NORMA RINEHART OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA AND RELATIVES IN OHIO. SHE WILL SADLY MISSED BY HER FRIENDS.
EDITH WAS PREDECEASED BY HER SISTER RUTH HOBBS IN JUNE 1927, HER FATHER IN JANUARY 1949 AND HER MOTHER IN JUNE 1974.
FUNERAL SERVICE MONDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1994 AT 2 P.M. AT CENTRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, VULCAN WITH REV. JIM CHAPMAN OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
FLOWERS ARE GRATEFULLY DECLINED – IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, TRIBUTES TO THE HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA 1825 PARK RD. S.E. CALGARY T2G 3Y6 WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, DIRECTORS. TELEPHONE 1-485-2633.