ELLIS, HUGHENA, PASSED AWAY AT THE CALGARY GENERAL HOSPITAL ON MAY 13, 1989 AT THE AGE OF 98 YEARS.
SHE WAS BORN AT RED JACKET, SASKATCHEWAN ON APRIL 29, 1891 AND CAME TO ALBERTA WITH HER PARENTS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN 1906. SHE MARRIED THE LATE WILLIAM JAMES ELLIS OF HIGH RIVER AND THEY RESIDED IN ALBERTA UNTIL HIS DEATH. HUGHENA AND HER CHILDREN MOVED TO B.C. THEN IN 1952 SHE RETURNED TO CONDOR AND ECKVILLE, ALBERTA WHERE SHE RESIDED UNTIL MOVING TO THE EXTENDICARE AT VULCAN IN 1983. SHE HAS RESIDED THERE SINCE.
HUGHENA WAS VERY ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITIES WHERE SHE LIVED. SHE WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION AT SALMON ARM, B.C. AND A LIFE MEMBER OF THE WOMEN’S INSTITUTE OF ALBERTA.
HUGHENA IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER MRS. RAY MCINENLY OF ARROWWOOD, TWO SONS – CRAWFORD (ALICE) OF MERRITT, B.C. AND JOHN (JEAN) OF TERRACE, B.C., THREE GRANDCHILDREN JO (BRIAN) BOULTON OF OKOTOKS, FRANK (AGNES) MCINENLY OF VULCAN AND CAROL (CARLO) SALITARIO OF KAMLOOPS, B.C., SIX GREAT GRANDCHILDREN J.C. AND CODY LEE BOULTON, STACEY AND HOLLY MCINENLY, RICH AND CARLA SALITARIO, TWO SISTERS MRS. JESSIE HOWE OF VICTORIA AND MRS. VIOLET MCBETH OF RED DEER, AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED HY HER HUSBAND WILLIAM JAMES IN 1924, EIGHT BROTHERS, FIVE SISTERS AND HER PARENTS ARCHIE AND CATHERINE MACDONALD.
FUNERAL SERVICES THURSDAY, MAY 18 AT 1:00 P.M. AT THE ARROWWOOD UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. ERNIE ROBERTS OFFICATING. INTERMENT IN THE FAMILY PLOT, ARROWWOOD CEMETERY.
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