Vulcan Funeral Home

LLOYD GILBERT SCHUMACHER PASSED AWAY AT LETHBRIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL NOVEMBER 6, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 75 YEARS.
LLOYD WAS BORN MARCH 2, 1919 AT CLARESHOLM, ALBERTA, THE OLDEST SON OF GILBERT AND PEARL (nee:CAVNEY) SCHUMACHER. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT STAVELY AND CLARESHOLM. HE MARRIED ANNETTA MARIE WIESS IN AUGUST OF 1940. IN JANUARY 1942, LLOYD ENLISTED IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, AND SERVED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE UNTIL 1946 WHEN HE WAS DISCHARGED. THE SAME YEAR THEY CAME TO FARM IN THE CHAMPION AREA. IN 1956 THEY MOVED TO VULCAN AND HE BEGAN WORKING FOR THE COUNTY

RUARK, ARCHIE EARL OF VULCAN, ALBERTA PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL OCTOBER 9, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 93 YEARS.
ARCHIE WAS BORN NOVEMBER 25, 1900 AT CLEARWATER, IDAHO. HE IMMIGRATED TO THE KINNONDALE AREA NORTH OF LOMOND TO HOMESTEAD WITH HIS FATHER JOHN “JACK” RUARK. IN 1910, THE FAMILY PURCHASED A FARM AND MOVED TO THE ENSIGN AREA. ARCHIE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT PEACE, ENSIGN AND CALGARY. IN 1921 HE GRADUATED FROM THE OLDS SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE. HE CONTINUED HIS EDUCATION IN NEW YORK WHERE HE GRADUATED FROM ELECTRICAL SCHOOL IN 1924. HE MARRIED ANNA WILLIAMS IN TORONTO, ONTARIO

FULTON, MARY ETHEL OF CALGARY, AND FORMERLY OF VULCAN, AB, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY ON OCTOBER 7, 1994 AT 89 YEARS OF AGE AT THE HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL, IN CALGARY.
ETHEL WAS BORN AUGUST 27, 1905 AT MAXVILLE, ONTARIO. SHE CAME OUT WEST TO FLAXCOMBE, SASK, WHERE SHE ATTENDED SCHOOL. IN 1924 SHE CAME TO VULCAN TO VISIT RELATIVES AND REMAINED IN THE AREA TO WORK AS A MOTHER’S HELPER FOR VARIOUS FAMILIES IN THE AREA. SHE MET WILLIAM ROY FULTON IN VULCAN AND THEY WERE MARRIED IN SASKATCHEWAN IN 1927. THEY RESIDED ON THE W.G. PETERSON FARM, NORTH OF VULCAN. IN

SMITH, GEORGE FRANKLIN, FORMERLY OF CHAMPION, ALBERTA PASSED AWAY AT THE GLENMORE PARK AUXILIARY HOSPITAL, CALGARY, ALBERTA OCTOBER 7, 1994 FOLLOWING A LENGTHY ILLNESS AT THE AGE OF 77 YEARS.
GEORGE WAS BORN APRIL 3, 1917 AT CARMANGAY, ALBERTA, THE SON OF HOMESTEADERS IN THE CHAMPION DISTRICT, MR. & MRS. G.F. SMITH SR. AND SPENT HIS LIFE FARMING THERE.
HE WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS BELOVED WIFE IVAH (MILLER) SMITH IN JUNE OF 1992, AFTER FIFTY-TWO YEARS OF MARRIAGE, HIS PARENTS, TWO SISTERS MABEL JONES AND RACHEL GOETZ.
GEORGE IS SURVIVED BY HIS CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES – DOUGLAS (GLORIA), JASON AND CHRISTOPHER OF

BROWN, ROBERT “BOB” PASSED AWAY OCTOBER 2, 1994 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 71 YEARS.
BOB WAS BORN MARCH 30, 1923 AT GILBERT, ALBERTA NEAR SUNNYNOOK. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT VULCAN AND SUNNYNOOK. HE RETURNED TO VULCAN IN 1937 AND WORKED AT THE GARAGE FOR HIS BROTHER BILL BROWN. HE MARRIED RUBY JOHNSON IN 1940 AND THEY CONTINUED TO MAKE THEIR HOME IN VULCAN.
IN 1942 BOB JOINED THE LOYAL EDMONTON REGIMENT AND TRAVELLED TO ENGLAND, NORTH AFRICA THEN TO ITALY WHERE HE WAS WOUNDED IN ACTION. HE WAS HOSPITALIZED IN ITALY THEN RETURNED TO ENGLAND ON A HOSPITAL SHIP

AUESTAD, ALLAN BRADLEY DIED SUDDENLY SEPTEMBER 17, 1994 NEAR MILO, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 17 YEARS.
ALLAN WAS BORN JUNE 7, 1977 AT CALGARY, ALBERTA. HE WAS RAISED ON THE FAMILY FARM NEAR MILO. HE ATTENDED GRADES 1 THROUGH 9 IN MILO AND HIGH SCHOOL IN VULCAN. HE BEGAN WORKING WITH DENIM PIPELINE FOR A SHORT TIME IN THE SUMMER AND FALL OF 1993 AND THAN BEGAN WORKING FULL TIME FOR RICHARDSON BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR, AT FIRST ON THE MILO DAM AND LATER ON THE LOMOND-VULCAN HIGHWAY.
ALLAN WAS AN HONEST FUN LOVING PERSON WHO WOULD GO

AN EARLY PIONEER OF THE EAST MAJORVILLE AREA, ESTELLA MAY FRANCES KIEMELE PASSED AWAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1994 AT THE GRANDVIEW NURSING HOME, CARDSTON, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 94 YEARS.
ESTELLA WAS BORN DECEMBER 6, 1899 AT WESTBOURGH, MISSOURI. SHE CAME TO THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES WITH HER PARENTS AND SETTLED IN HIGH RIVER IN 1904. THEY MOVED TO THE GLADYS RIDGE DISTRICT WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL 1911, WHEN THEY MOVED TO THE MAJORVILLE AREA.
IN 1916, ESTELLA MARRIED BILL KIEMELE AND THEY RESIDED ON THEIR FARM UNTIL THEY RETIRED TO VULCAN IN 1963. SHE HAS RESIDED AT THE GRANDVIEW NURSING HOME IN

GRAMS, LUCILLE ALDEEN, OF BARONS, ALBERTA DIED SUDDENLY IN HER HOME SEPTEMBER 2, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 65 YEARS.
LUCILLE WAS BORN JANUARY 19, 1929 AND RAISED IN MEDICINE HAT, ALBERTA. SHE LOVED GARDENING, PLANTS, AND ANIMALS. LUCILLE DEVOTED HER LIFE TO HER MOTHER, WHOM SHE CARED FOR AND RESIDED WITH IN BARONS.
BELOVED DAUGHTER OF ALBERTA WHITTAKER OF BARONS, LUCILLE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY TWO SISTERS EVELYN (JACK) METZ OF REDCLIFF, ALBERTA AND MIGNON (HENRY) COWLING OF AIRDRIE, ALBERTA.
FUNERAL SERVICE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1994 AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE CHAPEL OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME WITH FRANK JOHNSON L.M. OFFICIATING. INTERMENT

CHAPMAN, PHILLIP “PHIL” PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AUGUST 29, 1994 AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS.
PHIL WAS BORN AUGUST 10, 1907 AT ANTLER, NORTH DAKOTA. HE CAME FROM NORTH DAKOTA IN 1910 WITH HIS PARENTS THOMAS AND WINNIFRED (nee:NELSON) TO THE LOMOND AREA. HE BEGAN SCHOOL AT MIDWAY AND COMPLETED HIS EDUCATION AT LOMOND WHERE HE WORKED AROUND AND HELPED HIS FATHER ON THE FARM. IN 1932 HE MOVED TO THE WEST COAST TO WORK IN A SAW MILL. HE MARRIED LOUISE GERHAN IN 1936, AND IN 1939 THEY RETURNED TO ALBERTA TO FARM AND OPERATE A SERVICE STATION.

STEEVES, RALPH ALBERT PASSED AWAY AUGUST 13, 1994 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 81 YEARS.
RALPH WAS BORN DECEMBER 29, 1912 AT YETWOOD, ALBERTA, NEAR LOMOND. HE WAS THE SECOND YOUNGEST CHILD OF KATE AND ROBERT STEEVES WHO HOMESTEADED IN THE DISTRICT IN 1911. RALPH SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFETIME IN THE LOMOND AREA, RECEIVING HIS EDUCATION FROM HIS MOTHER WHO WAS A TEACHER AT THE YETWOOD SCHOOL. HE WORKED FOR HIS BROTHER AND FARMED ON HIS OWN FOR SEVERAL YEARS. ONE OF RALPH‘S GREATEST INTERESTS WAS HORSES, SO FOR A FEW YEARS HE RAISED HORSES ON HIS FARM