EVALENA MARIE LOVE PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA SEPTEMBER 21, 1997 AT THE AGE OF 94 YEARS.
MARIE WAS BORN FEBRUARY 3, 1903 IN KOOSKLA, IDAHO THE OLDEST DAUGHTER OF THREE, TO FRANK AND MARY RUARK. MARIE ATTENDED SCHOOL IN IDAHO WHERE SHE FINISHED GRADE TEN. SHE CAME TO THE BRANT – ENSIGN DISTRICT IN 1918 WITH HER FAMILY WHERE THEY FARMED ON RENTED LAND. MARIE HELPED HER PARENTS ON THE FARM UNTIL HER MARRIAGE TO CLIFFORD LOVE ON MARCH 25, 1925. MARIE AND HER HUSBAND MOVED TO THE BERRYWATER DISTRICT WHERE THEY FARMED AND RAISED THEIR TWO CHILDREN. TOGETHER THEY WORKED THE FARM UNTIL 1951, WHEN THEY RETIRED AND MOVED INTO VULCAN. IN 1978 CLIFFORD PASSED AWAY, AND MARIE CONTINUED TO RESIDE IN HER OWN HOME UNTIL MOVING TO PETER DAWSON LODGE, IN OCTOBER OF 1990, WHERE SHE RESIDED FOR FOUR YEARS, THEN MOVED TO CARMANGAY LONG TERM CARE FOR A SHORT TIME. SHE MOVED TO VULCAN EXTENDICARE IN I994 WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
MARIE LOVED HER FAMILY, ESPECIALLY HER GRANDCHILDREN AND THEIR FRIENDS FROM SCHOOL. HER HOME WAS ALWAYS OPEN. MARIE HAD A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOUR. SHE ALWAYS HAD A GARDEN – SHE LOVED AFRICAN VIOLETS AND SHE EVEN BROUGHT MANY OF THEM WITH HER WHEN SHE MOVED INTO THE LODGE. SHE ALSO ENJOYED KNITTING, CROCHETING AND ALL KINDS OF NEEDLE CRAFTS. SHE WAS KNOWN TO ALL AS A VERY KIND, INDEPENDENT WOMAN WHO ALWAYS LET YOU KNOW WHAT HER THOUGHTS WERE.
MARIE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BERRYWATER FARM WOMEN OF ALBERTA, VULCAN UNITED CHURCH, REID HILL WOMEN’S INSTITUTE FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
BELOVED MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER MARJORIE (BOB) MCCASKILL , A SON FRANK (MARJORIE) LOVE ALL OF VULCAN, SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, THIRTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, A SISTER DORIS PINGLITON OF ILLINOIS, TWO NIECES AND TWO NEPHEWS. SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND CLIFFORD, A SISTER BETHEL, AND HER PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 AT 2 P.M. AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. DON WATT OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS WERE GRANDCHILDREN DOUG MCCASKILL, JIM MCCASKILL, WAYNE LOVE, DAVID LOVE, KEVIN LOVE AND IAN KNIGHT.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES IN MEMORY OF MARIE COULD BE MADE TO THE VULCAN SENIOR CITIZEN CENTRE, BOX 36, VULCAN, TOL 2BO.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.