ETHEL DOROTHY TINKESS – SANSOME – SCOTT, FORMERLY OF CHAMPION AND VULCAN, PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN EXTENDICARE ON JANUARY 6, 1999 AT THE AGE OF 86 YEARS.
ETHEL WAS BORN IN STAVELY MARCH 31, 1912 TO ANDREW AND ALICE (nee:RAYNARD) TINKESS THEY MOVED TO THE KIRKCALDY DISTRICT IN 1928. SHE MARRIED REGINALD SANSOME IN CALGARY IN 1933, TOGETHER THEY FARMED NORTH OF CHAMPION UNTIL REGINALD RETIRED AND THEY MOVED TO VULCAN IN 1965. ETHEL KEPT HERSELF BUSY AFTER RAISING HER FAMILY BY CLEANING HOMES, HANGING WALL PAPER AND WORKING ON THE COUNTY COOK CAR FOR THE CREWS FOR MANY YEARS. REG PASSED AWAY IN 1986.
IN 1987 SHE MARRIED ARTHUR SCOTT IN RED DEER TOGETHER THEY RESIDED IN VULCAN. FOLLOWING THE AFTERMATH OF AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT, ETHEL MOVED INTO EXTENDICARE IN 1994, WHERE SHE HAD RESIDED SINCE.
ETHEL LOVED HER FAMILY, COOKING, SEWING, OIL PAINTING, SKETCHING, GARDENING, DRIVING SCHOOL BUS, PLAYING BINGO AND COLLECTING SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS, WHICH OVER TIME, SHE HAD COLLECTED OVER THREE THOUSAND SETS.
IN HER EARLY YEARS ETHEL WAS A MEMBER OF WOMEN’S INSTITUTE AND LATER SHE WAS A MEMBER OF BOTH CHAMPION AND VULCAN ART CLUBS.
BELOVED WIFE OF ART SCOTT OF VULCAN, LOVING MOTHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS BARBARA (BEN) SMITH OF VULCAN, RUTH FELKER AND SHEILA (ALLEN) HUBBARD ALL OF CALGARY, FIVE SONS BOB (VERA) SANSOME STERLING, GERALD (JOANNE) SANSOME OF VULCAN, RUSSELL (BARBARA) SANSOME OF RED WATER, JOHN (LIZ) SANSOME OF CHAMPION AND PAUL (KIM) SANSOME OF VULCAN, A SISTER MABEL MOORE OF RED DEER, BROTHER-IN-LAW TED HAMES OF CLARESHOLM, TWO STEP SONS JAY (ELAINE) SCOTT OF CALGARY AND DOUG (RONA) SCOTT OF NELSON, B.C., THIRTY FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, THIRTY FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
ETHEL WAS PREDECEASED BY HER FIRST HUSBAND REGINALD SANSOME IN 1986, SIX SISTERS, A BROTHER AND A SON-IN-LAW BEN FELKER.
FUNERAL SERVICE MONDAY JANUARY 11, 1999 AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH AT 1:30 P.M. WITH REV. CANON DON BINNEY AND REV. LORRAINE POWELL OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY FAMILY PLOT.
HONORARY BEARERS WERE ALL HER GRANDCHILDREN.
CASKET BEARERS WERE GORDON SMITH, CASEY FELKER, ARLIN SANSOME, JOEY SANSOME, RICHARD SANSOME , JAY SCOTT JR. AND BROCK SANSOME JR.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, TRIBUTES IN ETHEL’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER THE ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA 218A, 2323-32 AVE. N.E. CALGARY T2E 6Z3, OR THE CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE.
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