VIOLET LAURETTA “VI” DECKER PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE APRIL 30, 2000 AT THE AGE OF 90 YEARS.
VIOLET WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 14, 1909 AT RUSHFORD, MINNESOTA TO EVAN AND LILA EBNER. SHE RECEIVED HER SCHOOLING IN CONSUL, SASKATCHEWAN. VIOLET GREW UP ON THE FAMILY FARM NEAR ROBSART, SASKATCHEWAN. VIOLET MARRIED MATHAIS DECKER IN MAY 1942 AND THEY RESIDED IN VULCAN UNTIL 1945, MOVING TO MANY PLACES AND IN SEPTEMBER 1950 THEY MOVED TO CHAMPION. FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND IN 1963 SHE BRIEFLY MOVED TO CALGARY AND RETURNED TO VULCAN IN 1967, WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
VIOLET LOVED HER FAMILY AND ENJOYED HAVING FRIENDS OVER, HER HOUSE WAS OPEN TO ALL, AND MANY PEOPLE AFFECTIONATELY CALLED HER “MA DECKER”. TO HER GREAT GRANDCHILDREN SHE WAS KNOWN AS SHAKY GRANDMA AND BIG GRANDMA. VI WORKED HARD MOST OF HER LIFE AND THROUGH IT ALL SHE MAINTAINED A POSITIVE OUTLOOK AND WAS QUICK TO SHARE HER SENSE OF HUMOR.
VIOLET WAS A LIFE TIME MEMBER OF THE AUXILIARY TO THE LEGION BRANCH #21 VULCAN. SHE HAD MANY HOBBIES WHICH INCLUDED PLAYING CARDS, BINGO, GAMBLING, NEVADA TICKETS. SHE ALSO ENJOYED FLOWERS, MUSIC, DANCING AND TRAVELING WHICH INCLUDED MANY DESTINATIONS THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA AND HAWAII.
LOVING MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER BEV (STAN) HOWE OF CHAMPION, THREE SONS DON (BEV) OF LETHBRIDGE, PETE OF LAKE HAVASU, ARIZONA AND GORDON (ELEANOR) OF HIGH RIVER, TEN GRANDCHILDREN RICK (KATHY), LORI (BARRY), SCOTT (KIM), LeeANN (ROBERT), MICHELLE, RYAN, KEVIN, RACHEL. SHANE (MELISSA), STEPHANIE AND THEIR MOTHER MARG BATES, EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN LISA, BRANDY, CHANTELLE, JADEEN, AUSTIN, SHYLER, BRETT AND KYLE, A BROTHER BILL EBNER OF SUMMERLAND, B.C., TWO SISTERS MARY (HARRY) HETH OF CHILLIWACK, AND NITA WELLS OF MISSION, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
VI WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND MAT, A SISTER ESTER DECKER, SIX BROTHERS JACK, ELMER, TED, CLIFF, JAMES, ROY AND HER PARENTS.
REFLECTION OF LIFE SERVICE WAS HELD THURSDAY MAY 4, 2000 AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH AT 1:00 P.M. WITH REV. LORRAINE POWELL OFFICIATING.
INURNMENT TO FOLLOW AT CONSUL, SASKATCHEWAN AT A LATER DATE.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS TRIBUTES IN “VI”S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER PETER DAWSON LODGE MEMORIAL FUND BOX 760 VULCAN, TOL 2BO OR VULCAN HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY BOX 299 VULCAN, TOL 2BO.
ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. DIRECTORS. TELEPHONE 485-2633.