VIOLET MARY RUGGLES OF LOMOND, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY SURROUNDED BY HER FAMILY APRIL 23, 2000 AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS.
VIOLET WAS BORN FEBRUARY 22, 1913 ON THE FAMILY FARM AT SWEET VALLEY NEAR LOMOND TO THOMAS AND WINIFRED CHAPMAN. SHE TRAVELED BY A HORSE DRAWN VAN TO ATTEND LOMOND SCHOOL AND KEPT HER FEET WARM IN THE WINTER WITH A CHARCOAL HEATER. SHE HELPED HER FATHER IN THE FIELD AND WORKED AS A COOK FOR THE THRASHING CREWS. SHE TOOK CARE OF WAYNES, GRANDMA GRAY, WHILE HER CHILDREN WERE IN SCHOOL AND WAS A MIDWIFE AND TRAVELED TO FARMS TO ASSIST THE FAMILY AND SOMETIMES HELP DELIVER BABIES. SHE MARRIED WAYNE ARDEL RUGGLES IN 1936 TOGETHER THEY RESIDED AND WORKED THE GUESS RANCH. THEY MOVED TO BLUFFTON IN 1944, THEN MOVED TO CARMANGAY IN 1948 AND MOVED TO LOMOND IN 1957 TO FARM UNTIL RETIRING AND MOVING INTO TOWN IN 1998.
VIOLET WAS AN AVID SPORTS FAN, SHE ENJOYED CURLING FOR MANY YEARS, HER LAST YEAR SHE CURLED HER TEAM WON FIRST PLACE IN THE LADIES DIVISION. IN HER LATER YEARS SHE ENJOYED WATCHING CURLING AND BASEBALL. SHE ENJOYED NEEDLEWORK OF ALL KINDS INCLUDING CROCHETING, KNITTING, EMBROIDERY AND WAS AN EXCELLENT QUILT MAKER, WHICH MANY A FAMILY MEMBER CAN ATTEST TO. VIOLET ALSO ENJOYED COOKING AND BAKING. SHE WAS CALLED GRAMMA BY SEVERAL CHILDREN OF THE LOMOND COMMUNITY AND WAS LOVED FOR AND LOVED MANY PEOPLE IN RETURN.
VIOLET WAS A MEMBER OF THE WOMEN’S MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH AND WAS A LONG TIME MEMBER OF THE SUNSHINE DROP IN CENTRE IN LOMOND.
BELOVED WIFE OF WAYNE RUGGLES, LOVING MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER DELORES (RON) WALKER, A SON ERNIE (LIZ) RUGGLES ALL OF LOMOND, THREE GRANDDAUGHTERS CHARLA (DONOVON) EPP OF ENGLAND, PAMELA (TRENT) TORNQUIST OF LOMOND, SANDI RUGGLES OF THETIS ISLAND, B.C., TWO GRANDSONS SHELDON WALKER OF LOMOND AND BUCKEY RUGGLES OF LETHBRIDGE, TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN SHAWNTEL AND TORRANCE JACOB TORNQUIST BOTH OF LOMOND, NUMEROUS SISTERS-IN-LAW, BROTHERS-IN-LAW, NIECES, NEPHEWS, GREAT NIECES AND GREAT NEPHEWS, AND A HOST OF FRIENDS.
VIOLET WAS PREDECEASED BY FOUR SISTERS RUTH SANDE, HAZEL RUGGLES, ALICE GERHAN, GLADYS BROWN, THREE BROTHERS RALPH CHAPMAN, PHIL CHAPMAN, CECIL CHAPMAN, HER PARENTS AND A GRANDSON SHANE RUGGLES.
FUNERAL SERVICE THURSDAY APRIL 27, 2000 AT BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH LOMOND AT 2 P.M. WITH REV. HARRY RUGGLES AND REV. LARRY LOSEY OFFICIATING.
CASKET BEARERS WERE SHELDON WALKER, BUCKEY RUGGLES, TRENT TORNQUIST, PHILLIP RUGGLES, JACK STEEVES AND IAN CHAPMAN.
INTERMENT LOMOND CEMETERY.
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