STAMP, WILLIAM FREDRICK “FRED”, FORMERLY OF THE TRAVERS AND ENCHANT AREAS, PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL MAY 3, 1990 AT THE AGE OF 91 YEARS.
FRED WAS BORN APRIL 13, 1899 AT IROQUOIS, ONTARIO AND CAME TO THE TRAVERS AREA IN 1908 WHERE HE RECEIVED HIS SCHOOLING. HE SERVED IN BOTH THE FIRST AND THE SECOND WORLD WARS. FRED MARRIED VERA IN 1926, AND FARMED IN THE TRAVERS AREA. THEN IN 1948 THEY MOVED TO CONDOR, ALBERTA TO OPERATE A GENERAL STORE FOR TEN YEARS. HE MOVED TO CALGARY THEN RETURNED TO THE FARM IN 1960 WHERE HE HAS CONTINUED TO RESIDE SINCE.
FRED WAS A MEMBER OF THE VAUXHALL LEGION. HE ENJOYED FISHING AND COLLECTING ANTIQUE FURNITURE AND STOVES.
BELOVED FATHER OF FOUR DAUGHTERS – BETTY (JIM) BEGGS AND EVELYN GRAVERSEN, BOTH OF RED DEER, JEAN (PAUL) PIPKE OF DELBURNE AND RUTH (GARY) O’CONNELL OF CALGARY, THREE SONS GLEN AND BERNICE OF TRAVERS, KEITH AND VIVIAN OF BLACKFALDS AND ROY OF MERRITT, B.C., TWENTY-FOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND SEVENTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AND A SISTER SADIE STAMP OF LETHBRIDGE.
FRED WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS PARENTS, A BROTHER RAY, A SISTER MABEL ERICKSON, A SON BILL IN 1967 AND HIS WIFE VERA IN 1986.
FUNERAL SERVICES TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1990 AT 2:30 P.M. AT THE ENCHANT COMMUNITY HALL WITH THE REVEREND CANNON ALLAN McCUAIG OFFICIATING. INTERMENT IN THE FAMILY PLOT, TRAVERS CEMETERY.
A LEGION HONOR GUARD BY MEMBERS OF THE VAUXHALL LEGION. HONORARY PALLBEARERS WERE ABE WIENS AND ED EMELSON, ACTIVE PALLBEARERS WERE MELWOOD DODDS, BRIAN BEGGS, GARY BEGGS, DAVID BEGGS, KEVIN STAMP AND RICK STAMP.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, DONATIONS MAY BE MADE TO THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY, 317-10 ST. SOUTH, LETHBRIDGE T1J 2M7.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.