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 LTD. UNTIL 1978. IN 1975 THE FORMER JOHN DEERE BUILDING WAS PURCHASED AND BECAME KNOWN AS FURNITURE VILLA.
GORDON LOVED HIS FAMILY, ESPECIALLY HIS GRANDCHILDREN. HE HAD A GREAT MEMORY AND COULD RECALL NAMES, DATES, PLACES AND EVENTS VERY QUICKLY. HE COULD REMEMBER A CUSTOMERS NAME AS WELL AS THE PRODUCT PURCHASED. HIS CUSTOMERS BECAME HIS FRIENDS.
GORDON WAS A DEVOTED MEMBER OF A.A. IN 1975, ALONG WITH FOUR OTHERS, HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN STARTING THE TUESDAY NIGHT A.A. GROUP IN VULCAN. AS WELL AS BEING A GOOD FRIEND AND LISTENER, GORDON WAS A GOOD BUSINESSMAN AND WAS ALWAYS WILLING TO SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS AND THE COMMUNITY. HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE VULCAN SQUARE SHOPPING CENTRE AND AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF VIP STORES LTD. (MEGA GROUP).
IN HIS LATER YEARS GORDON’S HOBBIES INCLUDED SILVER SMITHING AND WOOD WORKING. HE ENJOYED WALKING, TIMES WITH HIS FAMILY AND RV-ING. GORDON CHERISHED THE PAST FOUR WINTERS WITH HIS WIFE, DOREEN, IN ARIZONA.
GORDON WILL BE REMEMBERED AS A GENTLE PERSON WHO CARED FOR PEOPLE.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF DOREEN ORR OF VULCAN, LOVING FATHER OF A DAUGHTER SHARON (DALE) MALMBERG OF MOSSLEIGH, A SON GARRY (DEBRA) ORR OF VULCAN, FIVE GRANDCHILDREN JANA AND DEAN MALMBERG OF MOSSLEIGH, MATTHEW, MELISSA AND CASSANDRA ORR OF VULCAN, TWO BROTHERS KENNETH ORR OF REGINA, WILBERT (DOREEN) ORR OF SWIFT CURRENT, A SISTER-IN-LAW ELAINE SLETTEN OF HAZLET, SASKATCHEWAN, FOUR BROTHERS-IN-LAW FRANK (COYLIA) BROBERG, WESLEY (HELEN KAY) BROBERG ALL OF GULL LAKE, SASKATCHEWAN, RAY (EILEEN) BROBERG OF EDMONTON, HUBERT (DORIS) BROBERG OF STRATHMORE, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
GORDON WAS PREDECEASED BY AN INFANT SISTER MAUREEN, A SISTER-IN-LAW IRENE ORR, TWO BROTHERS-IN-LAW BOB BORBERG AND RAYMOND SLETTEN AND HIS PARENTS SAMUEL AND JEAN ORR.
FUNERAL SERVICE WAS HELD THURSDAY JUNE 22, 2000 AT 1:30 P.M. AT THE CULTURAL RECREATION CENTRE, VULCAN WITH REV. LORRAINE POWELL OFFICIATING. THE EULOGY WAS GIVEN BY DAVID MITCHELL, SPECIAL RECORDED SOLO WAS DONE BY KAREN DORCHAK.
HONORARY BEARERS DAVID AND BEV MITCHELL, ALFRED AND MARJ JOHANSEN, GALE AND PAT THARLE, WALLACE AND KAREN DORCHAK, LEROY AND ANN BRANDEN, PETER AND JOANNE CAMPBELL , JIM QUICK AND TILLIE QUICK.
CASKET BEARERS WINSTON MITCHELL, SCOTT MITCHELL, LYNDON MITCHELL, TOM GRANT, BOB THOMPSON, DON CLIFFORD, TIM BENNETT AND DARCY SINCENNES.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE TRIBUTES IN GORDON’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER THE ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION 1331-29 ST. N.W. CALGARY, T2N 4N2, CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION #114, 1212-1 ST. S.E. CALGARY, T2G OG8 OR THE VULCAN & DISTRICT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE BOX 299 VULCAN, TOL 2BO.
ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. TELEPHONE 485-2633 OR E-MAIL CONDOLENCES TO vulcafuneralhome@hotmail.com.