DEGENSTEIN, AGNES ELIZABETH PASSED AWAY JANUARY 21, 1993 AT BOW ISLAND, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 92 YEARS.
BELOVED MOTHER OF SIX DAUGHTERS EVELYN (RAY) ELLIOTT OF PICTURE BUTTE, PHYLLIS (HENRY) HUFF OF LOMOND, NELLIE TROTTIER OF CARSTAIRS, CATHY TURLOCK OF MEDICINE HAT, ODELL (ROY) STEPHENSON OF CALGARY AND FLORENCE FORRER OF VANCOUVER, FOUR SONS WALTER AND TWILA OF FORT MACLEOD, TONY OF LETHBRIDGE, PETER AND JUNE OF VULCAN AND MIKE AND PAT OF FT. MACLEOD, FIFTY~EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN, OVER EIGHTY GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, FIVE HALF
BROTHERS GEORGE (PALMA) DEGENSTEIN OF BURSTALL, SASK., FRED (MARY) DEGENSTEIN OF CALGARY, GABE DEGENSTEIN AND FRANK (ROSE) DEGENSTEIN ALL OF MEDICINE HAT AND AUGUST (DOROTHY) DEGENSTEIN OF CHAMPION, TWO HALF SISTERS PHYLLIS SHATZ OF BOW ISLAND, NELLIE (MARK) SHATZ OF MEDICINE HAT AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
AGNES WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND PETER IN 1986, DAUGHTER BETTE, MOTHER BARBARA AND FATHER PAUL LINDEMANN, FOUR BROTHERS, THREE GRANDCHILDREN, TWO HALF BROTHERS, TWO STEP BROTHERS AND TWO STEP SISTERS.
AGNES WAS BORN APRIL 3, 1900 AT SELTZ, RUSSIA NEAR ODESSA SHE CAME OUT IN 1902 ON KIESER WHILHELM SHIP THE “GREAT”, ARRIVING IN NEW YORK THEN ON TO NORTH DAKOTA AND TO FOREMOST IN OCTOBER 1918 DURING A FLEW EPIDEMIC. HER MOTHER WAS EXPECTING TO HAVE A BABY AND HAD THE FLU, SO AGNES WAS LOOKING AFTER HER FOUR BROTHERS. SHE CAME TO TURIN, ALBERTA IN 1926 THEN TO LOMOND IN 1936, AND IN 1961 TO BROOKS ON TO HIGH RIVER IN THE 1976 AND A YEAR LATER TO CARSTAIRS. SHE RETURNED TO LOMOND IN 1981 WHERE SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BIRTHDAY CLUB AND THE SUNSHINE DROP-IN CENTRE. SHE WAS THE FIRST TO MOVE INTO THE GOLD PRAIRIE VILLA SENIORS APARTMENTS AND WAS PRESENTED A PICTURE OF THE QUEEN BY JOHN GOGO. IN 1982 SHE MOVED TO PICTURE BUTTE, FORT MACLEOD AND CALGARY, IN 1987 TO SUNNY SOUTH LODGE IN COALDALE AND HAS RESIDED IN THE PLEASANT VIEW LODGE IN BOW ISLAND SINCE MAY OF 1991.
AGNES ENJOYED PLAYING CARDS, BINGO, SINGING, DANCING, MUSIC AND LOVED TALKING TO PEOPLE.
FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO MEET MONDAY JANUARY 25 AT 7 P.M. FOR PRAYERS AT ST. MICHAEL’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 1ST. E., BOW ISLAND.
FUNERAL MASS TUESDAY JANUARY 26 AT 11:00 A.M. AT ST. MICHAEL’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, BOW ISLAND. WITH FATHER DAN STEVENOT CELEBRANT. INTERMENT TO FOLLOW AT 4 P.M AT VULCAN CEMETERY.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, DONATIONS TO THE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND 15 COLONEL BAKER PL. N.E. CALGARY T2E 4Z3, ALBERTA HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION, 1825 PARK RD. S.E. CALGARY TZG 3Y6 OR THE CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE.
VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, DIRECTORS. TELEPHONE 485-2633.
Please note her husband Peter John Degenstein died in 1986, not 36 as shown.