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DONALD ALEXANDER POVEY OF VULCAN PASSED AWAY MARCH 21, 2002 AT THE VULCAN EXTENDICARE AT THE AGE OF 71 YEARS.
DON WAS BORN OCTOBER 4, 1930 AT OXBOW, SASKATCHEWAN TO ALEC AND JANET POVEY. HE ATTENDED THE COUNTRY SCHOOL OF DALESBORROW TILL GRADE NINE. AT THE AGE OF EIGHT, HE DID MAINTENANCE WORK AT THE SCHOOL. HE TOOK HIS GRADE TEN BY CORRESPONDENCE AND WHEN THE WAR STARTED HE QUIT SCHOOL TO HELP OUT ON THE FARM .  DON CONTINUED TO BREAK HORSES AND WAS THE ONLY COWBOY IN THE DISTRICT.  DON WORKED HIS OWN LAND AND HELPED HIS FATHER ON

HARRIS WINNFREY “MAT” MATLOCK OF VULCAN PASSED AWAY MARCH 15, 2002 AT THE VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS.
HARRIS WAS BORN FEBRUARY 20, 1920 AT THE ROBERT E. MATLOCK FARM EAST OF CHAMPION TO CECIL AND EMMA MATLOCK. HE RECEIVED HIS SCHOOLING AT ENSIGN AND VULCAN HIGH SCHOOL.  IN 1939, DUE TO HIS FATHER’S AILING HEALTH HE TOOK OVER THE FARMING OPERATION, UNTIL 1941WHEN HE JOINED THE ROYAL CANADIAN ARMED FORCES AND WAS EMPLOYED AS AN AERO MECHANIC. IN OCTOBER OF THAT SAME YEAR HE MARRIED HANNAH CLARKSON IN VULCAN, HARRIS FINISHED HIS TRAINING IN CALGARY

DALE WILLIAM BROWN OF VULCAN PASSED AWAY MARCH 9, 2002 AT CALGARY, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 53 YEARS.
DALE WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 1, 1948 AT PORT ROWAN, ONTARIO TO CHRISTOPHER AND JOYCE BROWN. HE ATTENDED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN VITTORIA, ONTARIO AND RECEIVED HIS SECONDARY EDUCATION AT PORT DOVER, ONTARIO. FOLLOWING HIS SCHOOLING HE BEGAN WORKING FOR THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK AS A SCALES OPERATOR. IN AUGUST OF 1968 HE MARRIED PATRICIA ANN WILSON IN PORT DOVER. DALE THEN WORKED AS A FOREMAN FOR THE MORRISON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY IN SIMCOE, ONTARIO FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. IN 1980 HE MOVED WITH

ROBERT GEORGE (BOB) HUTTON OF VULCAN, ALBERTA PASSED AWAY MARCH 8, 2002 AT THE HIGH RIVER HOSPITAL AT THE AGE OF 72 YEARS, AFTER LOSING A FIVE YEAR BATTLE TO PROSTATE AND BONE CANCER.
BOB WAS BORN JUNE 11, 1929 AT VULCAN, THE ELDEST SON OF GEORGE AND ROBINA HUTTON. HE ATTENDED BOYNE AND ALSTON SCHOOL AND IN 1946 ATTENDED THE SOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN CALGARY. ON MARCH 1, 1952 HE MARRIED NELLIE SALTER AND THEY BEGAN THEIR LIVES TOGETHER. THEY MOVED TO THE HENRY E. PEARCE FARM EIGHT MILES WEST AND FIVE AND THREE-QUARTER MILES SOUTH OF VULCAN

EDITH M. ROEBUCK, PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE FEBRUARY 27, 2002 AT THE AGE OF 88 YEARS.
BELOVED MOTHER OF TWO SONS E.WARNER (ELAINE) OF EDMONTON, AND RODGER (CARLEEN) OF SALMO, B.C. FOUR GRANDCHILDREN KIM(PAUL) SANSOME OF VULCAN, KEVIN (LORI) ROEBUCK OF ELKFORD, MORGAN OF DARTMOUTH, NS AND KURT OF ST. ALBERT, EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, A SISTER DOROTHY (HARRY) PETERS OF VULCAN, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
EDITH WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND HARRY IN 1976, HER PARENTS,  TWO BROTHERS CECIL AND HOWARD AND A SISTER EVA ANDREWS.
EDITH WAS BORN IN LOMOND, ALBERTA OCTOBER 9, 1913 TO JOSEPH AND FRIEDA

LEONARD MANSFIELD CHASE FORMERLY OF LOMOND, ALBERTA PASSED AWAY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA FEBRUARY 25, 2002 AT THE AGE OF 84 YEARS.
LEONARD WAS BORN JUNE 15, 1917 AT WOODSTOCK, NEW BRUNSWICK TO WALLACE AND ISADORA CHASE. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AND WORKED IN THE AREA UNTIL JOINING THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, ARMY IN 1940. HE WAS STATIONED AT VALCARTIER, QUEBEC AND LATER ASSIGNED OVERSEAS WITH THE ANTI TANK REGIMENT UNTIL RETURNING HOME IN 1945. HE MOVED TO LOMOND AT FIRST, WORKING AS PART OF A HARVEST CREW, HE ALSO WORKED AT THE LOMOND SERVICE GARAGE FOR A SHORT WHILE, THEN AS A

LORETTA STRAUSS, FORMERLY OF CHAMPION, ALBERTA AND THE ALSTON DISTRICT PASSED AWAY IN HER 98TH YEAR AT LEISURE WORLD NURSING HOME IN ELMIRA, ONTARIO ON FEBRUARY 24, 2002.
LORETTA WAS BORN IN KITCHNER, ONTARIO AND MOVED TO THE CHAMPION DISTRICT IN 1925, THE YEAR OF HER MARRIAGE TO FELIX STRAUSS OF CHAMPION, FORMERLY OF CHEPTOW, ONTARIO
LORETTA IS SURVIVED BY HER SIX CHILDREN; RALPH (NELLIE) OF KITCHNER, JAMES OF CLARESHOLM, EILEEN (PETER) CALZAVARA OF TORONTO,  JERRY (OLIVE) OF NANTON, MARY (JOHN) PLUNKETT, TORONTO, RICHARD (MARY JANE) OF NANTON AND, TWELVE GRAND CHILDREN; DIANE, MURRAY, KATHERINE, CELESTE, JOHN, MICHELE, PAUL, MARK, ROBERT, NEIL,

LEONARD RALPH SOKVITNE, OF LOMOND PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY FEBRUARY 22, 2002 AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE AT THE AGE OF 84 YEARS.
LEONARD WAS BORN JUNE 24, 1917 AT LOMOND, ALBERTA TO NELS AND JOHANNA SOKVITNE. HE ATTENDED SNAKE VALLEY SCHOOL AND WORKED ON THE FARM WITH HIS FATHER USING HORSES. HE BEGAN FARMING HIS OWN LAND USING A STEEL-WHEELED TRACTOR. LEONARD MARRIED MURIEL IN FEBRUARY 1945 AND TOGETHER THEY CONTINUED FARMING AND RESIDING IN THE  LOMOND DISTRICT.
LEONARD WAS A KIND GENTLE MAN WHO KEPT MOSTLY TO HIMSELF. HE ENJOYED PLAYING CARDS, WATCHING T.V. AND DRIVING AROUND THE COUNTRYSIDE AND KEPT

HOLLISTER, SYLVIA ETTA “SYLVA”
88 years
Born March 4, 1913 at Vulcan, Alberta
Died January 27, 2002 at Calgary, Alberta
SURVIVED BY TWO NIECES MARJORIE WEBER OF VULCAN AND MURIEL BERG OF CALGARY, ON SISTER-IN LAW ADALINE SEAMAN OF VULCAN.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER PARENTS, HER HUSBAND LOU, HER BROTHER GEORGE AND HER SISTER URETTA MCIVER.
Arrangements by Vulcan Funeral Home – 403-485-2633.

ALFRED JAMES “JIM” PETERSON, OF MILO, ALBERTA PASSED AWAY JANUARY 23, 2002 AT THE VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, VULCAN  AT 63 YEARS OF AGE.
JIM WAS BORN NOVEMBER 25, 1938 IN CALGARY , THE SECOND SON TO CON AND LIL PETERSON. HE RECEIVED ALL HIS SCHOOLING IN MILO. AFTER COMPLETING HIS EDUCATION HE WORKED FOR HIS FATHER ON THE FAMILY FARM. ON OCTOBER 21, 1967 HE MARRIED BERENDINA “DENE” MARKS AND TOGETHER THEY BEGAN THEIR LIVES TOGETHER. THE FIRST EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF THEIR MARRIAGE THEY LIVED ON THE RALPH HALL FARM. IN APRIL OF 1968 THEY PURCHASED A HOUSE IN MILO