HOUSE, KATHLEEN JOYCE, FORMERLY OF ARROWWOOD, ALBERTA, PASSED AWAY AT CALGARY, ALBERTA ON DECEMBER 25, 1993 AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS.
JOYCE WAS BORN JULY 24, 1911 AT TORONTO, ONTARIO AND CAME WITH HER PARENTS FRANK AND ELLEN POLLEY TO LAVERNA, SASKATCHEWAN WHERE SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL UNTIL GRADE NINE WHEN SHE MOVED TO CALGARY TO ATTEND MT. ROYAL COLLEGE AND TOOK A SECRETARIAL COURSE. SHE BEGAN WORKING ON A RANCH IN THE BASSANO AREA WORKING WITH THE CHILDREN AND HOUSE WORK WHERE SHE MET FOREST HOUSE. THEY WERE MARRIED IN CALGARY IN 1936. THEY RETURNED TO RANCH IN THE ARROWWOOD AREA.
JOYCE CAME TO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE IN VULCAN IN 1987 AFTER FOREST’S DEATH WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE. WHILE IN ARROWWOOD, JOYCE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN ALL COMMUNITY EVENTS AS A MEMBER OF THE UNITED CHURCH WOMEN, WHERE SHE SERVED AS SECRETARY FOR TEN YEARS, ON THE BOOSTER CLUB FOR MANY YEARS AND THE COMMUNITY HALL BOARD AND THE GYMKHANA CLUB. SHE ALSO TAUGHT AT THE SCHOOL AND WAS A ROOM MOTHER. WHEREEVER SHE WAS CALLED TO HELP OUT, SHE WAS THERE.
JOYCE LOVED HER GRAND AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. THEY WERE THE LIGHT OF HER LIFE. SHE WOULD DROP WHATEVER SHE WAS DOING TO BE WITH THEM. SHE LOVED PEOPLE AND TALKING TO EVERYONE. SHE WOULD OFTEN SAY “IT NEVER HURTS TO SMILE”. HER SMILES WILL BE MISSED BY MANY.
BELOVED MOTHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS, ELEANOR HOUSE OF BANFF AND SHARON (TED) OAKES OF ARROWWOOD, FIVE GRANDCHILDREN – RANDY (DARCY) OBERHOLTZER, CLARK (SHERI) OBERHOLTZER, TWI (JIM) WILLIAMS, KATHY (WADE) NELSON AND SHANNON OAKES, FIVE GREAT-GRANDCH1LDREN JOSH, KIRBY, SARAH, MADISON, NIKI, JESSI AND ALEXIS, A SISTER NORA DAVIES OF KELOWNA AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND FOREST, A SISTER FRANCIS, TWO BROTHERS FRANK AND BLAKE AND HER PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1993 AT 2 P.M. AT ARROWWOOD UNITED CHURCH WITH DON HOLMES L.M. OFFICIATING. INTERMENT ARROWWOOD CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS TED OAKES, RICK KUNELIUS, JIM WILLIAMS, WADE NELSON, RANDY OBERHOLTZER, AND CLARK OBERHOLTZER.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, DONATIONS TO THE ARROWWOOD LIONS CLUB MEMORIAL FUND WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
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