CONRAD DEAL, OF VULCAN, ALBERTA WAS CALLED HOME TO HIS LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST AUGUST 19, 1999 AT THE AGE OF 100 YEARS AT VULCAN EXTENDICARE NURSING HOME.
CONRAD WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 17,1898 AT SARATOV, RUSSIA TO CONRAD AND KATHERINE DEAL .HE CAME TO CANADA IN 1912 WITH HIS FAMILY FIRST SETTLING IN CALGARY, THEN IN 1923 HE MOVED TO MENDHAM, SASKATCHEWAN. HE MARRIED MARY GRAFF IN LEADER, SASKATCHEWAN DECEMBER 23, 1925. THEY MOVED TO THE REID HILL DISTRICT EAST OF VULCAN IN 1929. CON WORKED AS A CARPENTER BUILDING HOUSES, BARNS AND CABINETS AND IN 1940 HE HIRED ON TO HELP BUILD HANGARS AT THE VULCAN AIRPORT, WHERE HE, HAND SAWED, EACH RAFTER. IN 1947 THEY MOVED TO THE WALTER BLAKELY FARM WHERE CON WORKED THE LAND AND CARPENTRY JOBS AROUND THE AREA. IN 1971 HE RETIRED AND MOVED INTO VULCAN WHERE HE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
CON WAS A PATIENT, SOFT HEARTED, KIND AND LOVING PERSON WHO LOVED BABIES, CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, WHOM HE TOOK GREAT DELIGHT IN TEASING THEM WITH MADE UP WORDS, THEY WOULD TRY TO PRONOUNCE FOR HIM.. HE WAS THERE TO GIVE GENTLE GUIDANCE, HAIR CUTS AND SHARPEN MANY SAW BLADES BY HAND AND FILE ONE TOOTH AT A TIME. HE ENJOYED BUILDING PLANT STANDS AND HOOKING AND BRAIDING RUGS.
CON WAS A CARPENTER FROM THE HEART, HE WOULD TAKE A PEACE OF WOOD HANDLE IT, SAND IT AND THEN CREATE A PLACE FOR IT. HE WAS A LIFE MEMBER OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
LOVING FATHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS DOROTHY McINTYRE OF VULCAN AND GOLDIE LARKINS OF CALGARY, FIVE GRANDCHILDREN DOUG (BRENDA) McINTYRE, LES (ARTHA) McINTYRE, KEITH (LAURA) McINTYRE ALL OF VULCAN, BRENDA (PETER) PETZOLD OF CALGARY AND PAT (LINDA) LARKINS OF BALZAC, TEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, LISA, CINDY, TYSON, CONNER, BRONSEN, LANE, DUSTIN, KAREN, MICHAEL, JENNIFER (CHRIS), TWO SISTERS-IN-LAW CLARA DEAL AND NINA DEAL BOTH OF AIRDRIE, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
CON WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS WIFE MARY IN JULY 1999, THREE BROTHERS GEORGE, HENRY AND DAVE (JULIA), TWO SISTERS MARY GREENE AND MOLLY BROWN, AN INFANT GRANDSON SIDNEY LARKINS, TWO SONS-IN-LAW EVERETT McINTRYE AND IRVINE LARKINS, AND HIS PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE AT VULCAN EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH MONDAY AUGUST 23, 1999 AT 2 P.M. WITH PASTOR FRANK HARRIS OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS WERE DOUG McINTYRE, LES McINTYRE, KEITH McINTYRE, PETER PETZOLD, PAT LARKINS AND ELMER DEAL.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE TRIBUTES IN CON’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER VULCAN EXTENDICARE AUXILIARY, BOX 810, OR VULCAN E.M. CHURCH BOX 669, VULCAN TOL2BO.
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