Obituaries

JOSE, ANNIE SLEENA PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA ON DECEMBER 6, 1995 AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS.
BELOVED MOTHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS GRETTA LOOSE AND FLORENCE (MAURICE) DITTO ALL OF VULCAN, LOVING GRANDMOTHER OF DUANE AND DEAN DITTO AND LAVONDA (KIM) JISTINICK AND THEIR CHILDREN KERA AND COLE ALL OF VULCAN.
FUNERAL SERVICE MONDAY DECEMBER 11, 1995 AT 1:30 P.M. AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. DON WATT OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS COULD BE MADE TO THE PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT OF THE VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, BOX 299, VULCAN, AB. T0L 2B0.
VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, DIRECTORS. TELEPHONE 485-2633.

STEVENSON, MYRTLE “MERT” FRANCES PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY DECEMBER 2, 1995 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 92 YEARS.
MERT WAS BORN NOVEMBER 17, 1902 AT LEWISTON, IDAHO. SHE CAME TO CLARESHOLM IN 1903. SHE AND HER BROTHER MERLE WERE AMONG THE FIRST STUDENTS TO ATTEND NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL, SOUTHWEST OF CLARESHOLM FOLLOWING THE PASSING OF HER PARENTS ALEXANDER AND FRANCES STEVENSON. MERT CONTINUED TO FARM WITH HER BROTHERS UNTIL 1955. SHE MOVED T0 BINDLOSS TO LIVE WITH HER SISTER EDITH BARNES TO HELP HER WITH HER FAMILY. IN 1968 SHE MOVED BACK TO CLARESHOLM, SOLD HER FARM AT WOODHOUSE AND

HERMANN, RUTH ADELINE PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA NOVEMBER 6, 1995 AT THE AGE OF 86 YEARS.
RUTH WAS BORN FEBRUARY 15, 1909 AT LaCROSSE , WISCONSIN, A SECOND DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND ADELINE REDMAN. SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL IN LaCROSSE WHERE ALSO LEARNED TO ROLLER SKATE, ON HER MOTHERS HARDWOOD FLOOR IN THE KITCHEN. IT WAS ONE OF HER FAVORITE PASTIMES.
SHE WENT ON TO TEACHERS COLLEGE AND HER FIRST SCHOOL HAD EIGHT GRADES, IN ONE ROOM. RUTH, HER MOTHER AND BROTHER CAME TO VISIT FRIENDS IN CANADA FOR ABOUT A MONTH. RUTH ATTENDED A DANCE AT REID HILL WERE SHE MET

MENSINGER, FREDRICK JORDAN “FRED” PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY NOVEMBER 3, 1995 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA.
FRED WAS BORN MAY 20, 1906 AT DANBURY, IOWA. HE CAME TO THE REID HILL DISTRICT OF VULCAN IN 1909 WITH HIS FATHER FREDRICK SR, MOTHER MAMIE, BROTHERS BENJAMIN AND ADAM AND A BABY SISTER MABEL. HE ATTENDED SUNNY GLEN SCHOOL AND HIS FIRST TEACHER WAS AN UNCLE OF THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER JOHN DIEFENBAKER. IN 1927 FRED MARRIED VIOLA RICHARDSON AND TOGETHER THEY FARMED ACROSS THE ROAD FROM HIS FATHERS FARM. IN 1938 THEY MOVED TO VULCAN AND OPENED A ONE CAR DEALERSHIP “MENSINGER MOTORS” WHICH FRED

LOUISE SANDBERG PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE OCTOBER 25, 1995 AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS.
LOUISE WAS BORN DECEMBER 24, 1916 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA. SHE ATTENDED TWIN COULEE SCHOOL WHICH WAS FOUR MILES FROM HER HOME, AND THE TREK WAS EITHER WALKED, ON HORSE BACK OR IN A ONE-HORSE TWO WHEELED CART OR BUGGY. ONE PROJECT FOR THE SCHOOL FAIR WAS COLLECTING GOPHER TAILS. ON THE WAY HOME FROM SCHOOL, LOUISE AND HER FRIENDS WOULD SNARE GOPHERS AND SAVE THE TAILS. ONE PARTICULAR DAY THEY ARRIVED HOME A LITTLE LATE – ABOUT 6:30 P.M. AS THERE WERE

BOWIE, ANNA BERYL PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT THE VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, VULCAN, ALBERTA ON OCTOBER 14, 1995 AT THE AGE OF 74 YEARS.
BERYL WAS BORN NOVEMBER 22, 1920 AT PENTICTON, B.C. WHILE HER MOTHER WAS THERE VISITING. THEY RETURNED TO THE FARM EAST AND NORTH OF CHAMPION. BERYL ATTENDED GARRARD AND HARMONY SCHOOLS. SHE BEGAN WORKING IN A COFFEE SHOP AND AS FARM HELP.
IN 1939 SHE MET ERNEST “ERNIE” OSWALD BOWIE AT A DANCE AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1940. SHE WAS TOTALLY DEVOTED TO HIM AND HE WAS HER BEST FRIEND. THEY FARMED IN THE REID HILL DISTRICT

ALBERT ARTHUR BRAUSSE, PASSED AWAY AT HOME ON OCTOBER 11TH, 1995 AT THE AGE OF 53 YEARS.
HE WILL BE SADLY MISSED AND EVER LOVED AND REMEMBERED BY HIS WIFE PATRICIA, MOTHER LINA BRAUSSE, SISTER LILLIAN WILLOUGHBY, CHILDREN STEPHAN, DANIAL, LEAH (DURRANT) AND HER HUSBAND KEITH, BRENT AND JENNIFER, GRANDCHILDREN REISE,MISTY, RYAN, AND CAMERON, NEPHEWS DALE AND DION WILLOUGHBY, NIECE KIM WILLOUGHBY, MANY UNCLES, AUNTS AND COUSINS, ALL OF WHOM WERE IMPORTANT TO HIM .
ALBERT WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS FATHER ARTHUR FREDERICK HERMAN BRAUSSE ON MAY 11,1982.
PRAYERS AT THE ARROWWOOD UNITED CHURCH MONDAY OCTOBER 16TH, 1995 AT 7.30P.M. FUNERAL SERVICE WILL

MCLEAN, ALLAN PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME IN CHAMPION, ALBERTA SEPTEMBER 3, 1995 AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS.
ALLAN WAS BORN IN THE HILL NURSING HOME AT CARMANGAY, ALBERTA ON APRIL, 17, 1913. HE WAS THE SECOND SON OF FRANCES AND ANGUS MCLEAN. HE BEGAN SCHOOL AT WASHINGTON SCHOOL WHERE HE AND HIS BROTHER WOULD WALK THE ONE MILE ACROSS THE FIELD TO ATTEND. IN HIS SECOND YEAR, THE FAMILY MOVED TO COCHRANE TO A RANCH, WHERE ALLAN ATTENDED WEEDEN SCHOOL. FOLLOWING SEVERE WEATHER AND POOR HEALTH OF HIS FATHER, THE FAMILY RETURNED TO THE FARM SOUTHWEST OF CHAMPION,

HUBKA, FRANK EDWARD OF CARMANGAY, BELOVED HUSBAND OF HELEN HUBKA DIED PEACEFULLY AT THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL SEPTEMBER 3, 1995 AT THE AGE OF 84 YEARS.
HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY A SON REVEREND BRIAN F. HUBKA OF CALGARY, TWO DAUGHTERS MARILYN (BLAINE) DAHL OF AIRDRIE AND FLORENCE (JACK) DAY OF CALGARY, FIVE GRANDCHILDREN, STEPHANIE, GEOFFREY, MELVIN DAHL AND JEANNETTE AND JASON DAY, TWO BROTHERS RUDY OF CARMANGAY AND BOB OF CLARESHOLM, BROTHERS-IN-LAW AND SISTERS-IN-LAW, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
HE WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS FATHER FRANK, MOTHER BESSIE, TWO SISTERS MARY HUBKA AND JOSIE BACH AND A BROTHER JOHN.
FRANK WAS BORN MAY

RAST, DORIS EVELYN (NEE: SCHNELL) PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL AUGUST 27, 1995 AT THE AGE OF 55 YEARS.
DORIS WAS BORN ON AUGUST 19, 1940 IN ESTEVAN, SASKATCHEWAN. SHE GREW UP ON A FARM WITH THREE SISTERS AND A BROTHER IN QUNGRE WHERE SHE ATTENDED HIGH SCHOOL. THEN OFF TO THE BIG CITY OF REGINA. SHE LIVED WITH HER DEAR GRANDMA JOHNSON WHILE SHE TOOK HER TRAINING AS AN XRAY TECHNICIAN. SHE ATTENDED FOUR YEARS OF BIBLE COLLEGE IN REGINA AND PAMBURN AND GRADUATE WITH A BACHELOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION DEGREE. SHE WORKED AS AN X-RAY TECHNICIAN IN