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GEORGE LEVERN “BUSTER” ARMSTRONG FORMERLY OF VULCAN PASSED AWAY JULY 13, 2000 AT VICTORIA, B.C. AT THE AGE OF 80 YEARS.
BUSTER WAS BORN JANUARY 20, 1920 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA TO GEORGE AND MABEL (nee:FERNLEY). HIS MOTHER PASSED AWAY WHEN HE WAS TWO AND A HALF YEARS OLD. BUSTER ATTENDED SUNNY LAKE SCHOOL WITH HIS SISTER ADELINE WHO LOOKED AFTER CLEANING AND BUSTER’S JOB WOULD BE CHOP WOOD AND LIGHT THE STOVE TO WARM UP THE SCHOOL FOR CLASSES.
HIS FATHER SUFFERED A STROKE WHEN BUSTER WAS FOURTEEN SO HE TOOK ON RESPONSIBILITY AT AN EARLY AGE AS WELL AS TAKING

PARSLOW, LYNETTA VIOLET PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT VULCAN EXTENDICARE JULY 3, 2000 AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS.
LYNETTA WAS BORN JUNE 4, 1913 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA TO RICHARD AND JOSEPHA PARSLOW. SHE RECEIVED HER SCHOOLING IN MANY HALLS OF LEARNING, BEGINNING AT HIGHLAND SCHOOL LIVING WINTERS IN TOWN AND SUMMERS AT THE FARM THEN SHE ATTENDED SUNDAY SCHOOL AT THE UNITED CHURCH. LYNETTA BECAME A CHURCH MEMBER AT AN EARLY AGE, SHE SANG IN THE CHURCH CHOIR, BELONGED TO C.G.I.T AND LATER THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S SOCIETY. SHE ENJOYED WORKING IN ALL THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. SHE TAUGHT SUNDAY SCHOOL, HELPED TO

REA MELINDA DINGWALL, PASSED AWAY JULY 1, 2000 AT THE VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE AT THE AGE OF 89 YEARS.
REA WAS BORN JULY 29, 1910 ON THE FARM WEST OF VULCAN, ALBERTA TO ROBERT AND TRESSIA DINGWALL. SHE ATTENDED RICHMOND HILL SCHOOL. AFTER GRADE EIGHT SHE STAYED AT HOME AND HELPED HER PARENTS ON THE FARM WITH HOUSEWORK AND CHORES. REA CONTINUED TO LIVE ON THE FARM HER WHOLE LIFE UNTIL THE PASSING OF HER BROTHER GEORGE IN 1996. SHE THEN MOVED TO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE IN VULCAN WHERE SHE RESIDED UNTIL MOVING TO EXTENDICARE IN APRIL, 2000. THIS

WILLIAM ARTHUR “ART” JONES PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA FRIDAY JUNE 30, 2000 FOLLOWING SEVERAL YEARS OF DECLINING HEALTH.
ARTHUR WAS BORN MAY 22, 1921 AND SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE IN THE VULCAN AREA .HE WAS ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY AS A DEVOTED MEMBER OF THE VULCAN LIONS CLUB WHERE HE RECEIVED THE “MELVIN JONES FELLOW”, VULCAN MASONIC LODGE #74 AF&AM, LETHBRIDGE LODGE OF PERFECTION (SCOTTISH RITE), VULCAN UNITED CHURCH, VULCAN CURLING CLUB, VULCAN AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY, THE WEATHER MODIFICATION BOARD OF THE ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL. HE FREELY SHARED HIS GIFT OF MUSIC BY DIRECTING THE VULCAN UNITED CHURCH

Born October 9, 1971 at Lethbridge, Alberta, Died June 28, 2000 at Calgary, Alberta.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF JACKIE, LOVING FATHER OF A DAUGHTER ALEXIS DIETRICH BOTH OF OKOTOKS, PARENTS DALE (DONNA) DIETRICH, OF LOMOND SISTER DONNA (IAN) STAFFORD AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN PHILIP AND TAYLOR OF TABER, IN-LAWS JACK (MARY) VANDENBERG OF ENCHANT, BROTHER-IN-LAW ED (RIAN) AND THEIR SON JULIAN OF ENCHANT, THREE SISTERS-IN-LAW MARLENE (ARNOLD) BEUSEKOM AND THEIR CHILDREN ROXANNE, MARILEE, JACEY AND SHEREE OF FORT MACLEOD, JOAN (JOHN) OSKAN AND THEIR CHILDREN BRADLEY, CURTIS, TYLER, CODY OF NOBLEFORD AND ELAINE (ALAN) OUDSHOORN AND THEIR CHILDREN NEVADA, CHEYENNE AND DENVER

ANNA NOLTE, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT HER HOME IN VULCAN, ALBERTA JUNE 21, 2000 AT THE AGE OF 93 YEARS.
ANNA WAS BORN NOVEMBER 22, 1906 IN WIERZBICA, POLAND, THE SECOND OF FOUR CHILDREN BORN TO JACOB AND PARANKA NAKONECZNY. SHE HELPED ON THE FAMILY FARM, WHICH WAS LOCATED ON BOUNDARY LAND, THAT SAW MANY CONFLITS OF WAR. ANNA ARRIVED IN QUEBEC CITY ON THE OCEAN LINNER NAMED “MONTCALM”, SHE THEN TRAVELED ACROSS CANADA, ARRIVING IN VULCAN IN 1928. SHE WAS MET BY MR. & MRS. PETE McINTYRE WERE SHE BEGAN WORKING AS A DOMESTIC HELPER. ANNA ALSO WORKED FOR MR.

LILLIAN ANNA MARY “LILL” KLIPPERT, PASSED OF VULCAN AWAY PEACEFULLY JUNE 20, 2000 AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE AT THE AGE OF 73 YEARS.
LILL WAS BORN APRIL 25, 1927 AT LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA AND WAS RAISED IN THE TOWN OF RAYMOND AND OUT ON THE FAMILY FARM ON THE MILK RIVER RIDGE. SHE MET HOWIE IN 1948 AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN 1949 AT RAYMOND. AFTER LIVING IN RAYMOND, MAGRATH AND LAMONT, THEY MOVED TO VULCAN IN 1959 AND RAISED THEIR CHILDREN THERE. AFTER A BRIEF THREE YEAR STAY IN LETHBRIDGE, LILL AND HOWIE RETIRED BACK TO VULCAN IN 1984,

GORDON GERALD ORR PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY JUNE 19, 2000 AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE.
GORDON WAS BORN JULY 10, 1915 AT REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN TO SAMUEL AND JEAN ORR. GORDON BEGAN WORKING FOR THE C.P.R. IN THE SIGNAL DEPARTMENT IN 1952. HE MARRIED DOREEN BROBERG IN 1956 AT GULL LAKE, SASKATCHEWAN. THEY RESIDED IN SWIFT CURRENT, SASKATCHEWAN. THE FOLLOWING YEAR THEY MOVED TO BROOKS, ALBERTA WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL MOVING TO CALGARY IN 1964. THE FAMILY MOVED TO VULCAN IN 1967, WHERE HE AND A PARTNER FORMED M.J. ELECTRIC. THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE DAKIN HARDWARE WAS PURCHASED AND OPERATED AS VULCAN HARDWARE

HOFER, REVEREND DARIUS M. PASSED AWAY SURROUNDED BY HIS FAMILY AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE JUNE 13, 2000 AT THE AGE OF 65 YEARS.
REVEREND DARIUS HAS BEEN SERVING AT LITTLE BOW COLONY FOR THE PAST SEVENTEEN YEARS.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF 46 YEARS OF MARY D. HOFER OF LITTLE BOW COLONY, DEVOTED FATHER OF ONE DAUGHTER MARIE (GEORGE) WIPF OF WARBURG COLONY, SEVEN SONS JERRY (BARBARA), JOHNNY (JUDY), DAN (BECKY), MIKE (ANNIE), LEONARD (SARA), DARIUS (DOROTHY), JIM (RACHEL) ALL OF LITTLE BOW COLONY, THIRTY GRANDCHILDREN, FIVE SISTERS J. KATHERINE STAHL OF GADSBY, M. RACHEL TSCHETTER OF FAIRVIEW, BARBARA (PETER) WURZ

ANNA MARIE (ANNA MAE) BEINGESSNER, FORMERLY OF CHAMPION PASSED AWAY JUNE 11, 2000 AT VULCAN EXTENDICARE AT THE AGE OF 97 YEARS.
ANNA MAE AS MOST KNEW HER, WAS BORN NOVEMBER 30, 1902 ON THE FARM NEAR WALES, NORTH DAKOTA TO ANDREW AND MARY FATH. SHE ARRIVED IN THE CHAMPION AREA WITH HER PARENTS AND BROTHER IN 1912.SHE ATTENDED SHERWOOD SCHOOL, ST. ALOYSIUS CONVENT IN LETHBRIDGE AND HIAWATHA SCHOOL NEAR EIGHT MILE LAKE. UPON COMPLETION SHE WORKED IN VULCAN AND CALGARY, RETURNING TO WORK IN CHAMPION AT THE TELEPHONE OFFICE IN 1922. ANNA MAE MARRIED MIKE BEINGESSNER AT