Obituaries

GRAMS, LUCILLE ALDEEN, OF BARONS, ALBERTA DIED SUDDENLY IN HER HOME SEPTEMBER 2, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 65 YEARS.
LUCILLE WAS BORN JANUARY 19, 1929 AND RAISED IN MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA. SHE LOVED GARDENING, PLANTS, AND ANIMALS. LUCILLE DEVOTED HER LIFE TO HER MOTHER, WHOM SHE CARED FOR AND RESIDED WITH IN BARONS.
BELOVED DAUGHTER OF ALBERTA WHITTAKER OF BARONS, LUCILLE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY TWO SISTERS EVELYN (JACK) METZ OF REDCLIFF, ALBERTA AND MIGNON (HENRY) COWLING OF AIRDRIE, ALBERTA.
FUNERAL SERVICE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1994 AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE CHAPEL OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME WITH FRANK JOHNSON L.M. OFFICIATING. INTERMENT

CHAPMAN, PHILLIP “PHIL” PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AUGUST 29, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS.
PHIL WAS BORN AUGUST 10, 1907 AT ANTLER, NORTH DAKOTA. HE CAME FROM NORTH DAKOTA IN 1910 WITH HIS PARENTS THOMAS AND WINNIFRED (nee:NELSON) TO THE LOMOND AREA. HE BEGAN SCHOOL AT MIDWAY AND COMPLETED HIS EDUCATION AT LOMOND WHERE HE WORKED AROUND AND HELPED HIS FATHER ON THE FARM. IN 1932 HE MOVED TO THE WEST COAST TO WORK IN A SAW MILL. HE MARRIED LOUISE GERHAN IN 1936, AND IN 1939 THEY RETURNED TO ALBERTA TO FARM AND OPERATE A SERVICE STATION.

STEEVES, RALPH ALBERT PASSED AWAY AUGUST 13, 1994 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 81 YEARS.
RALPH WAS BORN DECEMBER 29, 1912 AT YETWOOD, ALBERTA, NEAR LOMOND. HE WAS THE SECOND YOUNGEST CHILD OF KATE AND ROBERT STEEVES WHO HOMESTEADED IN THE DISTRICT IN 1911. RALPH SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFETIME IN THE LOMOND AREA, RECEIVING HIS EDUCATION FROM HIS MOTHER WHO WAS A TEACHER AT THE YETWOOD SCHOOL. HE WORKED FOR HIS BROTHER AND FARMED ON HIS OWN FOR SEVERAL YEARS. ONE OF RALPH‘S GREATEST INTERESTS WAS HORSES, SO FOR A FEW YEARS HE RAISED HORSES ON HIS FARM

UMSCHEID, JESSIE JANE PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AUGUST 3, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 94 YEARS.
JESSIE WAS BORN MARCH 6, 1900 AT BAKER CITY, OREGON. SHE CAME TO THE MILO AREA IN 1907 WITH HER PARENTS JIM AND ELIZABETH BURK. JESSIE WAS THE FIRST GIRL IN MILO TO HAVE A CAMERA AND SHE USED IT A LOT TO CAPTURE LIFE’S MOMENTS AS SHE GREW UP. SHE ALSO HELPED OUT ON THE FARM AT HARVEST WITH A TEAM OF HORSES AND ON THE COOK CAR. SHE ALSO HAD MANY PETS INCLUDING A BADGER, A PORCUPINE TO NAME A FEW, SHE

MCASKILE, DOROTHY JOYCE (nee: CLARK) WAS BORN ON HER GRANDPARENTS FARM AT LAKE CITY, IOWA ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1915 AND DIED JULY 16, 1994 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA.
AT THE AGE OF 13 YEARS, JOYCE CAME TO VULCAN WITH HER PARENTS ROSS AND ALICE CLARK, BROTHER JIM AND SISTER LILLIAN WHERE SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL.
JOYCE TOOK HER NURSES TRAINING AT CRANBROOK, B.C. GRADUATING IN 1939. SHE MARRIED CLIFFORD MCASKILE THAT SAME YEAR. SHE WORKED AT THE VULCAN HOSPITAL AND ALSO HELPED HER HUSBAND AND LATER HER SON OPERATE MCASKILE’S MENS WEAR FOR MANY YEARS.
IN MARCH OF 1993 SHE MOVED INTO THE PETER DAWSON

DOUGLAS, MARIE ALEXANDRA FABIOLA “FABIE” PASSED AWAY JULY 15, 1994 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 76 YEARS.
BELOVED WIFE OF JACK DOUGLAS OF ARROWWOOD, SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER, ALL IN QUEBEC, THREE STEP GRANDCHILDREN, NUMEROUS NIECES, INCLUDING A CLOSE NIECE NICOLE FAILLE AND NEPHEWS, HER SPECIAL FRIENDS INCLUDING LYNN HAYES OF STAVELY AND SHIRLEY KOOLE OF ARROWWOOD.
FABIE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER PARENTS PIERRE AND MARIE (nee:RICHARD) BRENIER, SEVEN SISTERS AND SIX BROTHERS.
FABIE WAS BORN FEBRUARY 27, 1918 AT ST.MARCEL, QUEBEC. SHE LIVED IN MONTREAL AND WHILE THERE SHE WORKED AS A MODEL THEN

VIOLET NARDELL “VI” FISHER HAGEN PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA ON JULY 7, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 74YEARS.
VI WAS BORN JUNE 26, 1920 AT ROSETOWN, SASKATCHEWAN, ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. SHE MARRIED ALEX HAGEN IN 1941 AT ROSETOWN AND THEY CAME TO THE ENSIGN AREA IN 1942, WHERE THEY WORKED FOR MANY FARMS IN THE AREA, INCLUDING MATLOCK’S, FINNEGAN’S AND SPAETH’S. THEY THEN PURCHASED THE ARCHIE MCINTYRE FARM WHERE THEY FARMED UNTIL MOVING INTO VULCAN TO RETIRE.
VI IS REMEMBERED AND APPRECIATED BY HER MANY NEIGHBOURS, FRIENDS AND FAMILY. ALL THE GOOD TIMES WORKING WITH THE ENSIGN COMMUNITY, HER SPECIAL

HOPKINS, JUSTIN WADE  PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME AT DEMMETT, ALBERTA ON JULY 6, 1994.
HE WAS BORN IN LETHBRIDGE ON DECEKBER 18, 1981. HE LIVED IN CHAMPION, LETHBRIDGE, RED DEER AND DEMMETT, ALBERTA.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER ERIN AND TIM OF DEMMETT, ALBERTA, HIS DAD BRUCE AND DEBBIE AND SISTER CHEYENNE OF BARONS, GRANDPARENTS BARB AND JIM HOPKINS OF LETHBRIDGE, AND TERRY AND RAE BENNETT OF LETHBRIDGE, GREAT GRANDPARENTS MINNIE AND ANDY ELSERLING OF YORKTON, SK AND SARAH BENNETT OF EDMONTON, ALBERTA.
HE WAS PREDECEASED BY ONE UNCLE ELI (BUTCH) HOPKINS, GREAT GRANDPARENTS ELI AND ANNIE HOPKINS AND JOHN

IRWIN, ROBERT SIMPSON “BOB” PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN EXTENDICARE ON JUNE 18, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 93 YEARS.
BOB WAS BORN JANUARY 14, 1901 AT SEA ISLAND, B.C. HE CAME WITH HIS FAMILY TO NANTON IN 1908. HIS FATHER PURCHASED LAND EAST OF THE LITTLE BOW RIVER ON TOP OF THE HILL, WHICH WAS LATER SOLD AND CROWN LAND WAS PURCHASED IN 1911 CLOSER TO THE RICHMOND HILL SCHOOL WHICH BOB ATTENDED.
BOB BEGAN FARMING IN 1921 AND WHILE HE WAS SERVING AS SECRETARY FOR THE RICHMOND HILL SCHOOL DISTRICT HE MET VIOLA SAUNDERS, WHO CAME TO TEACH IN SEPTEMBER 1925

CLIFFORD JOSEPH “CLIFF” FATH, PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL, VULCAN, ALBERTA ON APRIL 23, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 64 YEARS.
CLIFF WAS BORN FEBRUARY 4, 1930 AT CHAMPION, ALBERTA, WHERE HE ATTENDED SCHOOL, THE YOUNGEST OF TEN CHILDREN BORN TO GREGORY AND SABINA FATH.
CLIFF BEGAN WORKING AT AN EARLY AGE FOR LOCAL FARMERS, INCLUDING ED LUNDBERG, LEONARD VOISEY AND RAY NOWLIN. IN 1951 HE WAS EMPLOYED BY HOWARD SPAETH WHERE HE WORKED UNTIL DECEMBER 1954, WHEN HE BEGAN WORKING FOR THE UNITED OIL CO. AT FORT ST. JOHN, B.C.. IN 1956, HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE MASSEY HARRIS