LOIS MARION SCHNEIDER, FORMERLY OF VULCAN PASSED AWAY JULY 23, 2000 AT LITTLE BOW AUXILIARY HOSPITAL CARMANGAY AT THE AGE OF 96 YEARS.
LOIS WAS BORN JUNE 22, 1904 AT WESTHOPE, NORTH DAKOTA TO JOHN AND MARGARET CRAIG. SHE MOVED WITH HER FAMILY TO CLARESHOLM IN 1907. IN 1909 THEY MOVED TO THE FARM EAST OF BARONS. SHE ATTENDED BLACK SPRING RIDGE DISTRICT SCHOOL EAST OF CARMANGAY DURING HER ELEMENTARY YEARS. SHE RECEIVED HER JUNIOR AND SENIOR SCHOOLING IN CLARESHOLM AND LETHBRIDGE. ON JUNE 25, 1930 SHE MARRIED BUD SCHNEIDER ON HER PARENTS FARM AT BARONS. THEY LIVED ON THE FARM IN THE BOWVILLE DISTRICT WHERE LOIS ASSISTED WITH THE FARMING OPERATION UNTIL 1952 WHEN THEY MOVED TO VULCAN. IN THE SUMMER OF 1955 THEY MOVED TO CHAMPION WHERE LOIS WORKED AS A TELEPHONE OPERATOR FOR THREE YEARS. IN 1967 THEY RETURNED TO VULCAN WHERE THEY RETIRED A YEAR LATER. BUD PASSED AWAY IN 1988 AND A YEAR LATER LOIS MOVED INTO THE WHEATLAND HOMES IN VULCAN AND THEN INTO PETER DAWSON LODGE IN 1996. IN JANUARY OF 2000 SHE MOVED TO CARMANGAY WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
LOIS LOVED HER FAMILY AND ENJOYED SHARING SPECIAL TIMES TOGETHER. MUSIC PLAYED A VERY SIGNIFICANT PART OF LOIS’S LIFE AND SHE ENJOYED SHARING IT WITH OTHERS. SOME OF HER MOST FAVORITE TIMES WERE SPENT AROUND THE PIANO WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS PLAYING AND SINGING HER FAVORITE HYMNS AND SONGS. SHE ALSO ENJOYED KNITTING AND CROCHETING. IN HER YOUNGER YEARS SHE ENJOYED HORSE BACK RIDING AND AT THE PRIME AGE OF ELEVEN LEARNED HOW TO DRIVE AND CONTINUED TO DRIVE UNTIL THE AGE OF 90. FOR SEVERAL DECADES LOIS FAITHFULLY KEPT A DIARY AND TODAY THESE DIARIES HAVE INCREASED IN NUMBERS TO BECOME VOLUMES OF UNTOLD STORIES.
LOVING MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER JEAN (WAYNE) DAVEY OF CHAMPION, THREE SONS HAROLD (HELEN) SCHNEIDER OF WETASKIWIN, DONALD (SHIRLEY) SCHNEIDER OF OSOYOOS B.C., GARRY (REITA) SCHNEIDER OF BURNS LAKE, B.C., A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW ELAINE SCHNEIDER OF VULCAN, TWELVE GRANDCHILDREN, THIRTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, TWO BROTHERS-IN-LAW VICTOR (RENEE) SCHNEIDER OF KELOWNA, FRANKLIN (AGNES) SCHNEIDER OF SEATTLE, A SISTER-IN-LAW JOYCE (GENE) PERETTI OF BOTHEL, WASHNIGTON, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
LOIS WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND BUD IN 1988, TWO SONS CLAIRE IN 1963 AND MELVIN IN 1959, THREE BROTHERS ELWOOD, ROY AND MERTON, A SISTER JESSIE MacINTOSH AND HER PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE THURSDAY JULY 27, 2000 AT 1:30 P.M. AT CHAMPION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH WITH REV. DON SCHNEIDER AND PASTOR WAYNE LEE OFFICIATING.
CASKET BEARERS GRANDSONS DAVID SCHNEIDER, GREGORY SCHNEIDER, WADE SCHNEIDER, TREVOR SCHNEIDER, MARTY SCHNEIDER, MICHAEL DAVEY, BLAKE SCHNEIDER AND JOEL SCHNEIDER.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS TRIBUTES IN LOIS’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER THE PETER DAWSON LODGE MEMORIAL FUND BOX 760 VULCAN, TOL 2BO OR TO THE LITTLE BOW AUXILIARY HOSPITAL BOX 160 CARMANGAY, TOL ONO.
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