MARY DEAL, OF VULCAN, ALBERTA WAS CALLED HOME TO HER LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST JULY 25, 1999 AT THE AGE OF 92 YEARS AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE.
MARY WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 24,1906 IN WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF LUDWIG AND MARIA GRAFF. IN 1907 SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO PRELATE AND THEN TO LEADER, SASKATCHEWAN AREAS WHERE SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL. SHE MARRIED CONRAD DEAL IN LEADER, SASKATCHEWAN DECEMBER 23, 1925. THEY MOVED TO THE REID HILL DISTRICT EAST OF VULCAN IN 1929 WITH THEIR DAUGHTER DOROTHY. OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS THEY LIVED ON VARIOUS FARMS. IN 1947 THEY MOVED TO THE WALTER BLAKELY FARM WHERE MARY MILKED COWS, RAISED CHICKENS AND HELPED AROUND THE FARM. IN 1971 THEY RETIRED AND MOVED INTO VULCAN WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
MARY LOVED HER FAMILY AND SHARING TIME AND COOKING DINNERS FOR THEM, WHEN THEY ALL GOT TOGETHER AT HER HOME, WAS HER MOST JOYOUS TIMES. SHE ENJOYED MAKING QUILTS FOR HER FAMILY, GARDENING AND TIME AT CHURCH.
BELOVED WIFE OF CONRAD DEAL OF VULCAN, LOVING MOTHER 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), THREE BROTHERS REINHOLD GRAFF OF VULCAN , HENRY (MILDRED) GRAFF OF CALGARY AND RUDY (HELENE) GRAFF OF VULCAN, A SISTER-IN-LAW ANNE GRAFF OF MEDICINE HAT, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
MARY WAS PREDECEASED BY TWO BROTHERS LOUIS AND DAN GRAFF, THREE SISTERS AND THERE HUSBANDS EMMA (BILL) DAVIDSON, ELIZABETH (PETER) DAVIDSON, JULIA (DAVE) DEAL, AN INFANT GRANDSON SIDNEY LARKINS, TWO SONS-IN-LAW EVERETT McINTRYE AND IRVINE LARKINS, AND HER PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE AT VULCAN EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH THURSDAY JULY 29, 1999 AT 1:30 P.M. WITH PASTOR FRANK HARRIS OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS WERE DOUG McINTYRE, LES McINTYRE, KEITH McINTYRE, PETER PETZOLD, PAT LARKINS AND ALLAN GRAFF.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE TRIBUTES IN MARY’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER VULCAN EXTENDICARE AUXILIARY, BOX 810, OR VULCAN E.M. CHURCH BOX 669, VULCAN TOL 2BO.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. TELEPHONE 485-2633.
-My grandfather was Christian Graff from Winnipeg and had a homestead in Leader, Sask. -I lived in Calgary for awhile in and through 1996-1999 and lived with a Kevin Dickinson of Vulcan (then into oil and gas) and my birthdate is coincidentally in December (23rd).