FATH, JEAN IRENE OF CHAMPION, ALBERTA DIED SUDDENLY NOVEMBER 28, 1993 NEAR BARONS, ALBERTA.
JEAN WAS BORN NOVEMBER 30, 1921, AT BLACKIE, ALBERTA. SHE LIVED ON THE FAMILY FARM AT DINTON UNTIL SHE GRADUATED FROM THE HIGH RIVER HIGH SCHOOL. SHE THEN ATTENDED NORMAL SCHOOL IN CALGARY. SHE BEGAN TEACHING AT YALE SCHOOL EAST OF CHAMPION FROM 1941 TO 1944 THEN SHE TAUGHT AT COALHURST UNTIL 1947 WHEN SHE MARRIED RAYMOND FATH.
JEAN SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMPION I.O.D.E. AND C.W.L (ST. MARY’S ALTER SOCIETY).
BELOVED WIFE OF RAYMOND FATH OF CHAMPION, LOVING MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER GLENDA(GERRY) CUTFORTH OF HIGH RIVER, TWO SONS MURRAY (MARILEE) OF BROOKS AND MICHAEL OF CHAMPION, FIVE GRANDCHILDREN, A BROTHER KEITH (NORMA) MQKEAGE OF HIGH RIVER, SISTERS FLORENCE (HAROLD) BACH OF CALGARY, GWEN (BOB) MCLEAN OF CALGARY, SISTER-IN-LAW MARGARET (LES) SHAW OF VULCAN AND MADELINE (JACK) STEWART OF SARDIS, B.C., AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
JEAN WAS PREDECEASED BY HER BROTHER ERNEST MQKEAGE IN 1957, HER FATHER WILLIAM MQKEAGE IN 1963 AND HER MOTHER MARY IN 1990.
PRAYERS WILL BE SAID WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1, 1983 AT 7 P.M; AT ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, CHAMPION. FUNERAL MASS ALSO AT ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH THURSDAY DECEMBER 2, 1393 AT 10:30 A.M. WITH FR. CONRADO BELASSO CELEBRANT.
INTERMENT CHAMPION CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, DONATIONS TO THE JEAN FATH SCHOLARSHIP FUND, C/O THE CHAMPION SCHOOL.
VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, DIRECTORS. TELEPHONE 1-403-485-2633.