KRANZLER, ERNEST “ERNIE”, LONG TIME RESIDENT OF CHAMPION, ALBERTA, PASSED AWAY DECEMBER 21, 1993 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS.
ERNIE WAS BORN NOVEMBER 21, 1910 AT EUREKA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND CAME WITH HIS FAMILY AT THE AGE OF TWO YEARS TO THE BEISEKER AND CARBON AREA WHERE HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AND WORKED ON FARMS IN THE CARBON AREA. HE MARRIED LILY KRAUSE IN 1937 IN CARBON WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL MOVING TO CHAMPION IN 1941. ERNIE HAS WORKED AT MANY JOBS IN THE AREA SINCE INCLUDING THE MUELLER AND DICK HOWE FARMS.
HIS NATURAL TALENT WITH HORSES, ESPECIALLY WORK HORSES OF THE PERCHERON BREED, WAS HIS FORTE’. IN 1951 HE BEGAN WORKING WITH THE COUNTY OF VULCAN, CLEANING THE SCHOOL IN CHAMPION AS WELL AS DRIVING SCHOOL BUS UNTIL RETIRING IN 1980.
ERNIE LOVED HIS FAMILY, ESPECIALLY HIS GRANDCHILDREN AND HEAVY PERCHERON HORSES. HE ENJOYED SUNDAY DRIVES WITH THE FAMILY IN THE COUNTRY, FISHING AND IN HIS LATER YEARS BINGO. HE WAS ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP ANYONE. ERNIE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHAMPION PIONEER CLUB.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF LILY KRANZLER OF CHAMPION AND LOVING FATHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS MARLENE (AL) BERRINGER AND THEIR DAUGHTER KARA OF LETHBRIDGE AND LYNN AND HER SPECIAL FRIEND GLENN AGER OF VULCAN, TWO SONS STAN (BARB) AND THEIR CHILDREN STACEY AND ALLAN OF ARROWWOOD AND BRYAN (ROZ) AND THEIR CHILDREN KRYSTAL AND KEVIN OF LETHBRIDGE, A BROTHER RUDOLPH (ELLA) OF RED DEER, THREE SISTERS PAULINE DREXLER OF DRUMHELLER, MARTHA (CLAUDE) MUELLER AND NORA LEBSACK ALL OF VULCAN, TWO BROTHERS- IN-LAW ALFRED (ETHEL) KRAUSE OF ABBOTSFORD, B.C. AND ALVIN (GEORGINE) SCHAIRER OF SARNIA, ONTARIO, A SISTER-IN-LAW EDNA KRANZLER OF DRUMHELLER, AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
HE WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS PARENTS GOTTLIEB AND JACOBENA, TWO BROTHERS EMIL AND REINHOLD AND A SISTER RITA MUELLER.
FUNERAL SERVICES MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1993 AT 2 P.M. AT FREE EVANGELICAL CHURCH, CHAMPION WITH REV. KEITH BLACKMORE OFFICIATING. INTERMENT CHAMPION CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS GORDON MUELLER, GERALD MUELLER, LLOYD KRANZLER, CLINTON KRANZLER, DALE LEBSACK AND BOB PERMAN.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, DONATIONS TO EITHER LITTLE BOW AUXILIARY HOSPITAL, BOX 160, CARMANGAY T0L 0N0 OR ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA, #612,1701 CENTRE STREET N.W, CALGARY T2E 9Z9 WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.