HOUSE, ELSIE ELNORA EDNA, PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT CHAMPION, AB ON DECEMBER 31, 1989 AT THE AGE OF 90 YEARS.
BELOVED MOTHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS – LAURA PALMER OF CHAMPION, LAVINA (JIM) JENSEN OF CALGARY AND FLORENCE (GORDON) STEWART OF HIGH RIVER, SIXTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, THIRTY ONE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, FOUR GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, A SISTER GRACE BEINGESSNER OF HIGH RIVER AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND EARL IN DECEMBER 1965, HER PARENTS, THREE SISTERS – MYRTLE ENGELKING, LAURA ENGELKING AND FLORENCE NARUM, A BROTHER HENRY AND A GRANDDAUGHTER SHEILA ROSE LENS.
ELSIE WAS BORN AT NORTHOME, MINNESOTA ON JUNE 26, 1899 AND AT THE AGE OF ELEVEN, SHE CAME WITH HER PARENTS TO MANYBERRIES, AB. AT THE AGE OF NINETEEN, SHE MOVED TO HOMESTEAD NEAR MALTA, MONTANA WHERE SHE MET AND MARRIED EARL HOUSE ON JULY 15, 1920. THEY TRADED BOTH HOMESTEADS OFF AND MOVED TO MANYBERRIES THEN TO THE CHAMPION AREA IN 1943. SHE WORKED AS A COOK ON THE “A7″ CROSS RANCH IN 1949 UNTIL 1951 WHERE THEY OPERATED THE KITCHEN AT THE CHAMPION HOTEL.
ELSIE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION, BRANCH 226, CHAMPION. SHE ENJOYED PLAYING CARDS, CANASTA AND DOING CROSSWORD PUZZLES IN HER YOUNGER YEARS. SHE ALSO BUILT LAMPS USING SILK FLOWERS, ROCKS AND OTHER THINGS.
FUNERAL SERVICES WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1990 AT 11 AM AT THE CHAMPION UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. BERT FREY OFFICIATING. INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
PALLBEARERS WERE RAYMOND BEINGESSNER, CLARENCE BEINGESSNER, STANLEY BEINGESSNER, DOUGLAS BEINGESSNER, TERRY STUART AND GEORGE JENSEN.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.