MAVIS ELVA ROEBUCK (nee:RUARK), PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY DECEMBER 29, 1996 AT VULCAN, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 86 YEARS.
MAVIS WAS BORN JANUARY 24, 1910 AT KINNONDALE, ALBERTA, IN THE COUNTY OF VULCAN HER PARENTS THEN MOVED WEST OF VULCAN, WHERE MAVIS ATTENDED THE PEACE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL IN HIGH RIVER. SHE GRADUATED FROM VULCAN HIGH SCHOOL IN 1928.
ON JANUARY 24, 1929 SHE MARRIED W.E. (ED) ROEBUCK AND THEY FARMED EAST OF VULCAN UNTIL 1951 WHEN THEY MOVED INTO TOWN. MAVIS WORKED AT THE CLEANERS AND BECAME VERY INVOLVED WITH C.G.I.T.. FERRODALE CHAPTER #65, ORDER OF EASTERN STAR, CLOVERLEAF REBEKAH LODGE AND VULCAN UNITED CHURCH.
THE ROEBUCKS MOVED TO CALGARY IN 1963 WHERE MAVIS WORKED AS ASSISTANT COOK AT LODGE 500, JACQUES LODGES AND WAS VERY BUSY WITH HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS. SHE RETIRED AND MOVED BACK TO VULCAN IN 1972. MAVIS CONCENTRATED ON HER BEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN AND POTS AND POTS OF GERANIUMS. FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND IN 1986, MAVIS MOVED INTO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE AND AFTER A STROKE MOVED TO THE EXTENDICARE.
BELOVED MOTHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS MAYE (GUS) CSOKONAY, JEAN (ARNIE) KUHN, ALL OF CALGARY, LINDA (DON) THOMSON OF MANILLA, PHILLIPINES, FOUR SONS WALTER (RUSTY), BARRY (ELAINE) ALL OF CALGARY, DON (CECILE) OF VICTORIA AND DAVID (MAYTE) OF WHITBY, ONTARIO, SIXTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, NINE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, TWO BROTHERS MILES RUARK OF CALGARY, ALVIN RUARK OF REDWATER, A SISTER ELLEN SOMERVILLE OF HIGH RIVER, AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
MAVIS WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND OF FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS W.E.(ED) ROEBUCK IN 1986, A GRANDDAUGHTER CARLA ROEBUCK IN 1991, A GRANDSON GRANT ROEBUCK IN 1980, TWO BROTHERS ARCHIE AND LESLIE RUARK AND HER PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE FRIDAY JANUARY 3, 1997 AT 2:00 P.M. AT THE VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. DON WATT OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS WERE GRANDCHILDREN KEN CSOKONAY, TONY ROEBUCK, BILL ROEBUCK, KEVIN KUHN, ROBYN ROEBUCK AND CHRISTOPHER SUTHERLAND.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, TRIBUTE’S IN MAVIS’S MEMORY MAY BE MADE TO THE HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA, 1825 PARK RD. S.E. CALGARY, T2G 3Y6.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME DIRECTORS.