DAVID CHARLES “DAVE”HEGLAND,OF LETHBRIDGE AND CHAMPION, PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AUGUST 20, 1998 AT THE AGE OF 58 YEARS.
DAVID WAS BORN NOVEMBER 8,1939 AT CARMANGAY, ALBERTA TO EARL AND AGNES HEGLAND. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT CHAMPION AND WORKED WITH HIS FATHER AND BROTHER ON THE FAMILY FARM. HE MARRIED JOYCE HILL IN MARCH OF 1966 AND TOGETHER THEY CONTINUED FARMING IN THE CHAMPION AREA. HE PURCHASED HIS OWN PIECE OF LAND IN 1970. DAVID ENJOYED GRAIN FARMING, ESPECIALLY THE SPRING TIME. EVER SINCE HE WAS A CHILD AND HIS PARENTS TOOK HIM TO BALL GAMES, DAVID KEPT HIMSELF BUSY. HE COULD ALWAYS BE FOUND QUIETLY PLAYING IN THE SHADE AND IN THE DIRT.
AS HIS FAMILY GREW, HE DEVOTED MORE AND MORE TIME TO BE WITH AND SUPPORT THEM. AT BALL GAMES HE WAS THE COACH, MOM WAS THE UMPIRE, GINGER WAS THE SCORE KEEPER AND JACKIE PLAYED IN THE DIRT.
FAMILY WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN DAVID’S LIFE, HE WAS PROUD OF HIS FAMILY AND ALWAYS STOPPED IN FOR SHORT VISITS, USUALLY IN THE MORNING, PULL A FEW WEEDS FROM GINGER’S GARDEN, GIVE ADVICE TO CORY AND BE ON HIS WAY. DAVID USUALLY GOT AN EARLY START, RISING AT 4 A.M. HE WOULD MEET WITH FRIENDS AT THE COFFEE SHOP IN LETHBRIDGE THEN CATCH COFFEE WITH FRIENDS IN CHAMPION, PUT IN A FULL DAYS WORK, VISITS AND BE HOME FOR SUPPER.
HE WAS PAST MEMBER OF THE CHAMPION LIONS CLUB. DAVID ENJOYED CURLING AND SOME GOLFING, BUT FARMING WAS HIS LIFE.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF JOYCE HEGLAND OF LETHBRIDGE AND CHAMPION, DEVOTED FATHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS GINGER (GERALD) DEITZ OF MILO AND JACKIE HEGLAND AND HER SPECIAL FRIEND DARIN McKAY OF VULCAN, A SON CORY HEGLAND, MOTHER AGNES HEGLAND, A BROTHER RICHARD ALL OF CHAMPION, A SISTER DARLAINE (GARY) MAHONEY OF EDMONTON, NUMEROUS NIECES, NEPHEWS, GRAND NIECES AND NEPHEWS, FATHER AND MOTHER -IN-LAW BOB (MARGARET) HILL AND A HOST OF FRIENDS.
DAVE WAS DEDICATED TO HIS FAMILY, FARMING AND MANY FRIENDS.
DAVE WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS FATHER EARL HEGLAND AND A NEPHEW PATRICK MAHONEY.
FUNERAL SERVICE TUESDAY AT 1:30 P.M. AUGUST 25, 1998 AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. LORRAINE E. POWELL OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT CHAMPION CEMETERY.
HONORARY BEARERS MURRAY OHLHEISER AND DONNY BUCHAN.
ACTIVE BEARERS TERRY PENNY, LaVERNE GRANLIN, JIM FARWELL, DAVE ASPLUND, AGNUS McCULLOCH AND DAVE FODOR.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE TRIBUTES IN DAVID’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA 1101 2 AVE SOUTH LETHBRIDGE, T1J OC8.
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