Vulcan Funeral Home

MARY BAHSLER – NEE: LONG, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY MARCH 28, 1997 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS.
MARY WAS BORN AT GOODEVE, SASKATCHEWAN JULY 27, 1913. HER FATHER MARTIN LONG PASSED AWAY WHEN SHE WAS VERY YOUNG. MARY’S MOTHER DOROTHY NEE: HERR REMARRIED A FEW YEARS LATER, AND THE FAMILY MOVED TO A FARM WHERE MARY GREW UP. MARY WAS BAPTIZED AND CONFIRMED IN TO THE LUTHERAN FAITH.
ON JUNE IO, 1930 MARY AND JOHN WERE MARRIED AT HOFFENTHAL LUTHERAN CHURCH. TOGETHER THEY RESIDED IN THE LANGENBURG DISTRICT WHERE THEY RAISED THEIR FOUR CHILDREN.
JOHN PASSED AWAY IN 1985 AND

GWENDOLENE  “GWEN” GRAHAM, PASSED AWAY MARCH I6, 1997 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS.
GWEN WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 26, 1918 AT DRUMHELLER, ALBERTA TO JOHN AND MARY UTLEY . SHE GREW UP IN DRUMHELLER COMPLETING HER HIGH SCHOOL THERE. MANY OF HER YOUNGER YEARS WERE SPENT ON AND IN THE RIVER, SWIMMING IN THE SUMMER AND HOCKEY IN THE WINTER. SHE LOVED TO PLAY SPORTS INCLUDING BASKETBALL IN SCHOOL, LONG WALKS IN THE BADLANDS AND ALL AROUND TOWN. AFTER GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL, GWEN RECEIVED HER NURSES TRAINING AT CALGARY AND COMPLETED HER PSYCHIATRIC TRAINING AT PONOKA. SHE

MAZE, DOREEN BARBARA, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY MARCH 5, 1997 AT THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN AT THE AGE OF 53 YEARS.
BELOVED MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER PAMELA MAZE OF VULCAN, ALBERTA, AND A SON BRUCE MAZE OF SURREY, B.C. SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY A BROTHER ALLAN COOPER IN ENGLAND, NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
A PRIVATE FAMILY SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT VULCAN FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL AT A LATER DATE.
INURNMENT WILL TAKE PLACE ALSO AT A LATER DATE.
FLOWERS ARE GRATEFULLY DECLINED, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES IN DOREEN’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE INTERVALL HOUSE 712 VICTORIA AVE. SASKATOON, S7H OY2.
VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, DIRECTORS.

HOLOBOFF,  FREDERICK ELI “FRED”, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT CALGARY, ALBERTA, MARCH 10, 1997 AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS.
FRED WAS BORN NOVEMBER 10, 1918 AT BRILLIANT, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SON OF ELI AND ANNA HOLOBOFF, BROTHER TO ANNE PLANEDIN AND JOSEPH HOLOBOFF. HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO SHOULDICE, ALBERTA IN 1927 WHERE FRED ATTENDED SHOULDICE SCHOOL.
FRED CAME TO CALGARY IN 1943 AND WORKED FOR BURNS CANADA. IN 1945 HE BEGAN WORKING AT STANDEN’S SPRINGS LTD.,WHERE HE WORKED HARD TO LEARN THE TRADE OF MANUFACTURING SPRINGS AND TRAILER HITCHES. IN THE EARLY YEARS HE BOARDED IN A SMALL BEDROOM OWNED BY

RUBY GRICE, WAS CALLED HOME TO HER LORD AND SAVIOUR FEBRUARY 27, 1997 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 93 YEARS.
RUBY WAS BORN DECEMBER 9, 1902 AT ALSHAM, SASKATCHEWAN, AND SHE RECEIVED HER SCHOOLING AT THE ALSHAM SCHOOL. SHE MARRIED HUBERT WILLIAM KING IN 1920 AT CARROT RIVER, SASKATCHEWAN. THEY MOVED TO SASKATOON WHERE RUBY OWNED AND OPERATED A HAIR DRESSING SHOP IN SASKATOON AND LATER THEY MOVED TO PRINCE ALBERT. RUBY AND HER HUSBAND THEN MOVED TO VICTORIA. HUBERT PASSED AWAY IN I954. IN 1981 SHE MARRIED HER SECOND HUSBAND ROBERT REVERE GRICE. TOGETHER THEY RESIDED IN VICTORIA,

MARGUERITE HELEN MAY KING – DERSCH , PASSED AWAY AT THE FANNING CENTRE, CALGARY, ALBERTA FEBRUARY 22, 1997 AT THE AGE OF 80 YEARS.
MARGUERITE HELEN MAY BROWN WAS BORN IN BANFF, ALBERTA, ON APRIL 28, 1916. SHE WAS THE YOUNGEST CHILD OF ELIZABETH AND EDWARD BROWN. MARG, HAD AN OLDER SISTER, ALICE, AND TWO BROTHERS, TED AND HORRIE. SHE WAS AN ACTIVE GIRL WHO ENJOYED MANY PURSUITS FOUND RIGHT OUTSIDE HER DOOR, INCLUDING SKIING, SKATING, CANOEING AND HIKING. AS A TEENAGER AND YOUNG ADULT SHE WORKED AT A BAKERY IN BANFF AND THE HOMESTEADER INN AND HAD MANY STORIES TO

MUELLER, CLAUDE LOUIS, PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA FEBRUARY 19, 1997 AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS.
CLAUDE WAS BORN AUGUST 9, 1914 AT LAWRENCE, ALBERTA IN THE ALSTON DISTRICT. HE FARMED WITH HIS FATHER LOUIS AND LATER WAS A PART OWNER OF “RED HEAD SERVICE STATION”, WITH HIS BROTHER EMERY IN CHAMPION. HE SOLD HIS INTEREST IN THE SERVICE STATION BEFORE BEING ENLISTED IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR EFFORTS, AND RETURNED TO FARMING. HE MARRIED MARTHA KRANZLER IN 1944 AND TOGETHER THEY OPERATED A MIXED FARM UNTIL MOVING TO VULCAN IN THE EARLY 1980’S WHERE THEY CONTINUED TO RESIDE

VAN LOON, GERTRUDE MARGARET, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY ON FEBRUARY 17, 1997 AT THE FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL, CALGARY, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 79 YEARS.
BELOVED MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER ARLEEN (PAT) TODD, THREE GRANDCHILDREN DOUG, LISA AND JODY, FOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN P.J., TYRELL, NICHOLAS AND JENNA, A SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW HELEN (DON) VAN LOON OF DUNCAN, B.C. AND THEIR FAMILIES, SPECIAL FRIENDS ALICE, MAE AND LIL.
GERTRUDE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND ROY “R.J.” IN 1994, SON ROGER IN 1965 AND HER PARENTS.
SPECIAL THANKS TO DR. WM. L. LOUIE AND SUZANNE RIZZUTO AND FAMILY FOR THEIR KINDNESS.
AT GERTRUDE’S REQUEST A PRIVATE FAMILY SERVICE

LAUGHLIN,  PATRICK HERELD “PAT” PASSED AWAY JANUARY 30, 1997 AT CALGARY, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 88 YEARS.
PAT WAS BORN MARCH 7, 1908 AT GRASSY LAKE, ALBERTA. IN 1919 HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS DAVID AND ISABELLA LAUGHLIN TO KENTUCKY THEN TO EDEN, MARYLAND WHERE THEY OPERATED A MARKET GARDEN . IN 1924 THEY MOVED TO CHICAGO WHERE PAT APPRENTICED IN THE PRINTING TRADE WHILE WORKING IN A PAPER WAREHOUSE UNTIL MOVING BACK TO MILO IN JULY I928, WITH A SHORT WORK STAY IN MONTANA. HE STAYED WITH HIS HALF BROTHER TOM WEBBER AND HIS WIFE CECILIA. HE BEGAN WORKING

ANDREW MORRIS “ANDY” NAFZIGER PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT LITTLE BOX AUXILLARY, CARMANGAY, ALBERTA ON JANUARY 29, 1997 AT THE AGE OF 80 YEARS.
ANDREW WAS BORN ON THE FARM HIS PARENTS HOMESTEADED N.W. 36-17~24-W4TH ON AUGUST 29, 1916. HE RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION AT THE MAYVIEW AND SNAKE VALLEY SCHOOLS. IN THE MID THIRTIES ANDREW WORKED WITH MORRISON CONSTRUCTION DEVELOPING HIGHWAY NUMBER TWO, SOUTH OF HIGH RIVER. LATER IN THE THIRTIES HE WORKED ON THE B.J. MENSINGER FARM, AS ONE OF THE HIRED HANDS. IN 1942 ANDY ENLISTED IN THE RC.A.F. TRAINING AS AN AIRFRAME MECHANIC. HIS CAREER TOOK HIM TO MEDICINE