HART, FLORENCE ELIZABETH PASSED AWAY DECEMBER 19, 1996 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 98 YEARS.
FLORENCE WAS BORN JANUARY 21, 1898 AT FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA. SHE MOVED TO FLAXTON, NORTH DAKOTA IN 1900. THEN SHE MOVED TO HOMESTEAD AT LOMOND, ALBERTA IN THE SPRING OF 1908.
SHE ATTENDED FIRST CHANCE SCHOOL, NOW BADGER LAKE. FLORENCE MARRIED FRED HART IN 1916, THEY MOVED FARMS IN 1925 TO THE SHAW PLACE WHERE SHE HAS CONTINUED TO RESIDE ON HER OWN UNTIL MOVING TO VULCAN EXTENDICARE IN 1993, WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
FLORENCE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE SUNSHINE DROP-IN CENTRE.
BELOVED MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER EDNA HART OF WAMBLIE, ALBERTA, TWO SONS LEONARD (MAY) OF INNISFAIL AND OLIVER (DOREEN) OF LOMOND, SEVENTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, NUMEROUS GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, A BROTHER LEONARD DURAND OF OYEN, AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND FRED IN 1962, TWO SONS WALTER IN 1968 AND DENVER IN 1971, FOUR SISTERS MAMIE ARNOLD, ESTER KOCH, CORA DALTON AND ALMA DALTON, BROTHERS JEROME, GLEN AND LAWRENCE DURAND AND HER PARENTS ALBERT AND MARY(MAMIE) DURAND.
FUNERAL SERVICE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1996 AT 11:30 A.M. AT BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH, LOMOND WITH FR. DAN STEVENOT CELEBRANT.
INTERMENT TRAVERS CEMETERY.
HONORARY BEARERS; WAYNE HART, AUBREY ROOT, ALVIN KOCH, GLEN HART, JIM COMMET AND CHARLES COMMET.
CASKET BEARERS; KEN HART, TIM HART, TERRY COMMET, RON BIRCH, DAN SOLTSZ AND LEE SOMERVILLE.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, TRIBUTES IN FLORENCE’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION, 1331-29 ST. N.W., CALGARY, T2N 4N2.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.