TATIANNA ELAINE “TANIA” STAEHR, PASSED AWAY OCTOBER 11, 1999 AT LITTLE BOW AUXILIARY HOSPITAL, CARMANGAY, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS.
TANIA WAS BORN AT ROSSLAND, B.C. JUNE 7, 1912 TO ELI AND MARY VERESCHAGIN. SHE GREW UP IN THE MOSSLEIGH AREA AND ATTENDED SCHOOL AT GLADYS RIDGE. SHE MET CONRAD STAEHR THEY WERE MARRIED AND TOGETHER THEY FARMED IN THE CLUNY AREA UNTIL MOVING TO A FARM IN THE CHAMPION AREA IN 1946. CONRAD PASSED AWAY IN MARCH OF 1974. TANIA MOVED TO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE IN 1978, THEN FOR TWO YEARS SHE RESIDED AT THE MEDICINE TREE LODGE IN HIGH RIVER. SHE THEN MOVED TO THE LITTLE BOW AUXILIARY HOSPITAL IN CARMANGAY WHERE SHE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
TANIA ENJOYED READING THE BIBLE, SEWING, EMBROIDERY, KNITTING AND WAS VERY GOOD AT TRAINING ANIMALS IN HER YOUNGER YEARS.
BELOVED MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER JOYCE (ROBERT) SIMMONS OF ROCHESTER, ALBERTA, TWO SONS VICTOR (WANDA) OF CALGARY AND RICHARD OF CHAMPION, FOUR GRANDCHILDREN STEVEN VOLK OF CAMROSE, ALEX (LINDA) VOLK OF WETASKIWIN, BRADLEY AND RICHELLE BOTH OF CALGARY, NUMEROUS COUSINS, NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
AT TANIA’S WISHES A GRAVESIDE SERVICE WILL BE HELD THURSDAY OCTOBER 14, 1999 AT 1:30 P.M. AT CHAMPION CEMETERY WITH PASTOR FRANK HARRIS OFFICIATING.
CASKET BEARERS WERE VIC STAEHR, RICHARD STAEHR, BRADLEY STAEHR, STEVEN VOLK, ALEX VOLK AND ALAN LUNDBERGE.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, TRIBUTES IN TANIA’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE LITTLE BOW AUXILIARY HOSPITAL BOX 160 CARMANGAY, TOL ONO.
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