AN EARLY PIONEER OF THE EAST MAJORVILLE AREA, ESTELLA MAY FRANCES KIEMELE PASSED AWAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1994 AT THE GRANDVIEW NURSING HOME, CARDSTON, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 94 YEARS.
ESTELLA WAS BORN DECEMBER 6, 1899 AT WESTBOURGH, MISSOURI. SHE CAME TO THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES WITH HER PARENTS AND SETTLED IN HIGH RIVER IN 1904. THEY MOVED TO THE GLADYS RIDGE DISTRICT WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL 1911, WHEN THEY MOVED TO THE MAJORVILLE AREA.
IN 1916, ESTELLA MARRIED BILL KIEMELE AND THEY RESIDED ON THEIR FARM UNTIL THEY RETIRED TO VULCAN IN 1963. SHE HAS RESIDED AT THE GRANDVIEW NURSING HOME IN CARDSTON SINCE 1987.
ESTELLA RAISED A FAMILY OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. HER FAMILY WAS SPECIAL AND ALWAYS PUT THEIR NEEDS BEFORE HER OWN. SHE LOVED LAUGHTER, SINGING AND DANCING, THE WIDE OUTDOORS AND PRAIRIE LIVING KEPT HER SPIRITS UP EVEN THROUGH THE HARDSHIPS OF THE THIRTIES. WHEN SHE RETIRED SHE WAS ALWAYS QUILTING, KNITTING OR MAKING CROCHETED ARTICLES, MANY TO BE GIVEN TO HER GRANDCHILDREN.
ESTELLA JOINED THE VULCAN UNITED CHURCH AND THE VULCAN SENIOR CITIZEN DROP-IN CENTRE, WHERE SHE ENJOYED FELLOWSHIP AND ACTIVITIES WITH HER MANY FRIENDS. SHE ALSO WAS ABLE TO TRAVEL A BIT AND LOVED PEOPLE AND THEIR VISITS. HER WISH WAS THAT EVERYONE COULD BE HAPPY ALL THE TIME.
ESTELLA IS THE BELOVED MOTHER OF FIVE DAUGHTERS MABEL VARE OF CARDSTON, MARGARET OST OF LOMOND, HAZEL MCDONALD OF WILLIAMSFORD, ONT., BEATRICE (ROBERT) HATELY AND JOAN (STEVE) SEMACH ALL OF LETHBRIDGE, SIX SONS LOUIS (JOAN), WILLIAM (EDRA), ALFRED (ROSE) ALL OF CARDSTON, DELBERT (LAUREEN) AND MELVIN (PHYLLIS) ALL OF LETHBRIDGE AND KEITH (LENNEA) OF PICTURE BUTTE, FORTY GRANDCHILDREN, EIGHTY-TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, THREE GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, A BROTHER SAMUEL FRANCIS OF VULCAN, TWO SISTERS DEE TOBIASON OF EDMONTON AND ROSE (CHARLES) NORTHCOTT OF BROOKS, AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND WILLIAM IN 1970, TWO BROTHERS BENJAMIN AND CLAIRE FRANCIS, THREE GRANDCHILDREN, A GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILD, THREE HALF BOTHERS EMMET, ELBA AND WILLIAM FRANCIS, A HALF SISTER MINNIE LINES, HER FATHER MILTON AND MOTHER MARGARET FRANCIS.
FUNERAL SERVICE WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 1994 AT 11 A.M. AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. BEVERLY HILL OFFICIATING. INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS DARYL KIEMELE, MIKE KIEMELE, RANDY KIEMELE, GARRY SEMACH, KEN VARE, FRANK MCDONALD, DON KIEMELE AND BILLY HATELY.
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FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.