ARTHUR DOUGLAS “ART” FOX PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY JUNE 22, 1995 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 90 YEARS.
ART WAS BORN NOVEMBER 19, 1904 AT PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND. HE CAME TO CANADA WITH HIS PARENTS FRED AND PHILLIS FOX AND SETTLED NEAR WEYBURN, SASKATCHEWAN ON A FARM. IN 191I THEY SOLD THAT FARM TO HOMESTEAD AT HARDY, SASKATCHEWAN. HE ATTENDED EGYPT VALLEY SCHOOL AND BEGAN WORKING AT OTHER FARMS IN THE AREA AND TRIED FARMING HIS OWN LAND. IN 1932 WHEN HE SOLD OUT AND MOVED TO PEACE RIVER. HE WORKED BUILDING ROADS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS IN THE SUMMERS AND DURING THE WINTER MONTHS HE WORKED FOR OIL COMPANIES. ART OPERATED A CHICKEN FARM IN CHILLIWACK FOR A SHORT TIME AND A FLOOD CAME AND CLEARED HIS OPERATION OUT. HE RETURNED ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE WHERE, FOR A SHORT TIME HE OWNED SOME LAND AND LATER SOLD IT. HE WORKED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY UNTIL RETIRING IN 1969 AT AGE 65 YEARS. ART MOVED TO VULCAN IN 1983, AND IN 1986 HE MOVED INTO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE, THEN TO EXTENDICARE, IN VULCAN IN 1993 WERE HE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
HIS GREATEST PASSION WAS NEW AUTOMOBILES. HE WOULD WORK TO PURCHASE THE NEXT ONE. ART ALWAYS HAD A DOG OF ONE KIND. OR ANOTHER AND HE ALWAYS NAMED THE DOG MIKE. ART ALSO ENJOYED PLAYING POOL, CRIB AND BINGO, GETTING OUT IN THE MOUNTAINS, FISHING AND SPENDING TIME WITH HIS NIECES AND NEPHEWS WERE HIS FAVOURITE PASTIMES.
ART IS SURVIVED BY A BROTHER JOE (CHRISTINA) FOX AT WEYBURN, SASK., TWO SISTERS-IN-LAW EVELYN FOX OF HARDY, SASK AND THELMA FOX OF REGINA, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
ART WAS PREDECEASED BY THREE BROTHERS VIC, FRED AND JIM. A SISTER JOYCE MEAD AND HIS FATHER FRED AND MOTHER PHILLIS.
GRAVESIDE SERVICE AT VULCAN CEMETERY MONDAY JUNE 26, 1995 AT ll A.M. WITH REV. BEVERLY HILL OFFICIATING.
CASKET BEARERS BUD McGILLIS, BILL FOX, DON FOX AND BOYD FOX.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS DONATIONS TO THE VULCAN AND DISTRICT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES BOX 299, VULCAN, AB. T0L 2B0.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.