WAYNE ARDELL RUGGLES OF LOMOND, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY JULY 1, 2001 AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE AT THE AGE OF 85 YEARS.
WAYNE WAS BORN JULY 16, 1915 AT OSAIS, MINNESOTA TO JOHN AND VIOLET RUGGLES. HE CAME TO ALBERTA WITH HIS FAMILY IN THE SPRING OF 1917 FROM OSAKIS, MINNESOTA. HE LIVED ON SECTION 35 SO THEY WERE KNOWN AS THE 35 KIDS. WAYNE’S FAMILY MOVED SEVERAL TIMES, BUT ALWAYS CAME BACK TO THE LOMOND DISTRICT. A COUPLE OF THE PLACES THEY LIVED WERE YAHK AND KINGSGATE B.C. WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED TAKING OUT PROPS FOR THE C.P.R. HE THEN MOVED TO FOREST LAWN AND THEN TO THE YETWOOD DISTRICT, WHERE HE TOOK MOST OF HIS SCHOOLING. IN 1936 HE MARRIED VIOLET CHAPMAN AND TOGETHER THEY RESIDED AND WORKED THE GUESS RANCH. IN 1944 THEY MOVED TO BLUFFTON WHERE HE OPERATED A GARAGE, TRUCKED AND HAULED MAIL. HE MOVED TO CARMANGAY IN 1948 WHERE HE RAN A SERVICE STATION AND HAULED FOR THE C.P.R., HE THEN WORKED AT HUBKA’S GARAGE FOR SEVERAL YEARS. IN 1957 THEY MOVED TO THE LOMOND DISTRICT TO FARM UNTIL RETIRING AND MOVING INTO TOWN IN 1998. VIOLET PASSED AWAY IN APRIL OF 2000 AND WAYNE HAS CONTINUED TO RESIDE IN LOMOND EVER SINCE.
WAYNE LOVED HIS FAMILY AND ESPECIALLY HIS GRANDCHILDREN. HE ALSO ENJOYED FISHING, CROSS WORK PUZZLES AND QUILTING, SPENDING SEVERAL HOURS CUTTING OUT PIECES OF MATERIAL WHILE VIOLET STITCHED THE SQUARES TOGETHER.
WAYNE WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE LOMOND CREDIT UNION WHERE HE SERVED ON THE BOARD FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
LOVING FATHER 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 CALGARY, TWO GRANDSONS SHELDON WALKER OF LOMOND HIS GIRLFRIEND KATIE WARREN OF NANTON AND BUCKEY RUGGLES OF LETHBRIDGE, TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN SHAWNTEL AND T.J. TORNQUIST BOTH OF LOMOND, A SISTER LAURINE STEEVES OF CAMROSE, TWO BROTHERS REV. HARRY (MARION) RUGGLES OF BOW ISLAND, BOB RUGGLES OF LETHBRIDGE, SISTER-IN-LAW MAY CHAPMAN OF LOMOND, SISTER-IN-LAW JEAN (JIM) REATH OF VULCAN, NUMEROUS NIECES, NEPHEWS, GREAT NIECES AND GREAT NEPHEWS, AND A HOST OF FRIENDS.
WAYNE WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS WIFE VIOLET, TWO SISTERS LEONE EDENLOFF, AMY STEEVES, FOUR BROTHERS ROYAL, BURT, ROSS, DORN, A GRANDSON SHANE RUGGLES AND HIS PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE THURSDAY JULY 5, 2001 AT BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH LOMOND AT 1:30 P.M. WITH REV. HARRY RUGGLES, REV. LARRY LOSEY AND REV. ED SUMMERS OFFICIATING.
HONORARY BEARERS WERE ALL HIS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
CASKET BEARERS WERE SHELDON WALKER, BUCKEY RUGGLES, TRENT TORNQUIST, PHILLIP RUGGLES, JACK STEEVES AND LES RUGGLES.
INTERMENT LOMOND CEMETERY.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE TRIBUTES IN WAYNE’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE SOUTHERN ALBERTA BIBLE CAMP BOX 99 LOMOND, TOL IGO OR THE CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE.
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