BRETT, ANNA MAY, FORMERLY OF CALGARY AND CHAMPION, ALBERTA, PASSED AWAY AT THE BURNABY GENERAL HOSPITAL DECEMBER 29, 1991 AT THE AGE OF 95 YEARS.
MAY WAS BORN DECEMBER 10, 1896 AT BARRIE ONTARIO AND MOVED TO SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN WHEN SHE WAS A YEAR OLD. THE FAMILY TRAVELLED TO STAVELY IN 1906 AND SETTLED IN CHAMPION. SHE ATTENDED COUNTRY SCHOOLS OF BOW VALLEY AND WASHINGTON. IN 1920 MAY MOVED TO CALGARY WHERE SHE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE T. EATON COMPANY. MAY AND HER SISTER PEARL ALSO MODELLED FOR THE EATON COMPANY. IN 1931 SHE RETURNED TO THE FARM AT CHAMPION AND WAS EMPLOYED BY SEVERAL LOCAL FAMILIES. SHE RETURNED TO CALGARY IN 1954 WHERE SHE LIVED UNTIL MOVING TO BURNABY, B.C. TO BE WITH HER SISTER. WHILE THERE, SHE SUFFERED A STROKE AND WAS CONFINED TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE SHE DIED.
MAY ALWAYS LOOKED FORWARD TO HEARING THE NEWS FROM CHAMPION, READ TO HER BY HER NIECE, FOR SHE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF CHAMPION AS HOME. SHE WAS NEVER MARRIED, BUT CONSIDERED HER BROTHER AB’S FAMILY AS HER OWN AND SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME TOGETHER WITH THEM.
MAY IS SURVIVED BY THREE NIECES RUTH (ART) CHELL OF LETHBRIDGE, DOROTHY (BOB) HEALY OF VULCAN AND CATHY BROUGHTON OF BURNABY, B.C., FOUR NEPHEWS MARTIN BRETT OF CALGARY, BILL AND PHYLLIS BRETT OF ARMSTRONG, DAVID AND MARTIN BROUGHTON BOTH OF BURNABY, A SISTER-IN-LAW MONA BRETT OF CALGARY.
FUNERAL MASS FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1992 AT 11:00 A.M. AT ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, CHAMPION WITH FR. H. DELISLE CELEBRANT. INTERMENT CHAMPION CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, DONATIONS TO THE CHAMPION CEMETERY MAINTENANCE ASSOCIATION WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.