MASSEY, MYRTLE JEAN PASSED AWAY AT LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA ON FEBRUARY 12, 1991 AT THE AGE OF 52 YEARS.
JEAN WAS BORN AT LETHBRIDGE ALBERTA, MARCH 23, 1938 AND RAISED IN CHAMPION, JEAN FINISHED HER SCHOOLING IN CHAMPION. SHE ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA AND RECEIVED HER JUNIOR “E” TEACHING CERTIFICATE. SHE TAUGHT SCHOOL AT ENCHANT, PINCHER CREEK, VULCAN AND CHAMPION. JEAN MARRIED RONALD RAY MASSEY APRIL 16, 1960 AND HAVE CONTINUED TO RESIDED IN THE CHAMPION AREA. JEAN ENJOYED DRIVING SCHOOL BUS FOR THE COUNTY OF VULCAN IN THE CHAMPION AREA FOR TWO YEARS.
JEAN WAS A VERY ACTIVE PERSON IN HER COMMUNITY AND CHURCH, WHERE SHE TAUGHT SUNDAY SCHOOL AND WAS COORDINATOR OF THE CHAMPION UNITED CHURCH. SHE WAS ALSO PRAIRIE ROSE COMMISSIONER FOR THE GIRL GUIDES. JEAN WAS ALWAYS A PERSON THAT WOULD LEND A HELPING HAND. DURING THE TIME SINCE SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH HER ILLNESS, SHE STILL WAS MORE CONCERNED ABOUT OTHERS THAN ABOUT HER SELF. SHE WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR HER FAMILY AND WILL BE SADLY MISSED.
BELOVED WIFE OF MR. RONALD MASSEY OF CHAMPION, AND LOVING MOTHER OF THREE SONS AND THEIR WIVES, MICHAEL AND PATTI OF VULCAN, GRANT AND CATHY OF BRANT, DARCY AND LORI OF CRANBROOK, TWO DAUGHTERS MICHELE OF LETHBRIDGE AND LYNETTE AT HOME IN CHAMPION. SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HER MOTHER BARBARA AND HER STEPFATHER GOTLIEB HILDEBRANDT, TWO STEP-BROTHERS GARY AND HIS WIFE JANE HILDEBRANDT AND BRIAN HILDEBRANDT, ALL OF CALGARY, SIX GRANDCHILDREN, CORI, KIMBERLY, MELISSA, CAMERON, BRANDON AND JORDAN, TWO NEPHEWS MAX AND KIRK AND A HOST OF FRIENDS.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER FATHER JOHN BEFUS.
FUNERAL SERVICES SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1991 AT 1:00 P.M. AT CHAMPION UNITED CHURCH WITH FRANK JOHNSON OFFICIATING. CREMATION TO FOLLOW, INURNMENT AT A LATER DATE IN THE CHAMPION CEMETERY.
PALLBEARERS WERE MICHAEL MASSEY, GRANT MASSEY, DARCY MASSEY, GARY HILDEBRANDT, GORDON CARLSON AND DONNIE VERSLUYS.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES MAY BE MADE TO THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY, #408, 1305 11 AVE. S.W. CALGARY, T3C 3P6.
FUNERAL AND CREMATION ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.