ARTHUR GEORGE THARLE PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT VULCAN, ALBERTA JANUARY 27, 1997 AT THE AGE OF 84 YEARS.
ARTHUR WAS BORN JUNE 2, 1912 ON THE HOMESTEAD QUARTER N.E.22-24-W4th NEAR ARROWWOOD, ALBERTA THAT HIS FATHER HOMESTEADED IN 1903. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT SUNSET VALLEY AND AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN HIS FATHER PASSED AWAY. HE AND HIS MOTHER CONTINUED OPERATING THE FARM.
ON MARCH 16, 1938 HE MARRIED GRACE MARIE STRONG. THEY LIVED ON THE FARM FOR A SHORT TIME AND THEN MOVED INTO MOSSLEIGH. ARTHUR CONTINUED FARMING AND OPERATING HIS OWN TRUCKING OPERATION, HAULING GAS FROM TURNER VALLEY AT NIGHT AND GRAIN DURING THE DAY. THIS WAS BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN EVERYTHING WAS DONE MANUALLY. IN 1951 THE FAMILY RETURNED TO THE FARM. OVER THE YEARS HE HELPED HIS SONS ESTABLISH THEIR FARMS AND TOGETHER THEY FED MANY CATTLE USING THE SAME BRAND AS HIS FATHER. ARTHUR DEARLY LOVED THE FARM AND COMMENTED, THERE WAS NO PLACE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN WHERE HE LIVED. HARVEST WAS HIS FAVOURITE TIME OF YEAR. THE JOY IN ARTHUR’S LIFE WAS HIS FAMILY, GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
BELOVED FATHER OF THREE SONS AND THEIR WIVES GALE AND PAT , GARRY AND LINDA ALL OF MOSSLEIGH AND BOB AND SANDRA OF VULCAN, EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN, BRENDA, DEBORAH, JIM, JENNIFER, GLEN, ROBIN, JASON (SHANNON) AND MARNIE A GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER, GRAYSON THARLE, A SISTER JEANNIE (HARPER) THORNTON OF CALGARY, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
ARTHUR WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS BELOVED WIFE GRACE JANUARY 30, 1992, TWO SISTERS ALICE AND MARGARET, A BROTHER WILBERT IN 1918 AND HIS FATHER FRANK IN 1929, MOTHER MINNIE IN 1971.
FUNERAL SERVICE THURSDAY JANUARY 30., 1997 AT 10 A.M. AT VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. DON WATT OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
HONOURARY BEARERS: RAY AND MARY DESPAS, BUNTY BERTSCHY, DAVID EVENS, BOB RICKETT, GLEN STRONG AND JIM STRONG.
CASKET BEARERS; JASON THARLE, ALLEN BARR, JIM THARLE, GUY BROWN, GLEN THARLE AND MAX CHRISTIE.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, MEMORIAL TRIBUTES IN ARTHUR’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE LONG TERM CARE UNIT, OF VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE, BOX 299, VULCAN, ALBERTA TOL 2BO.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME, DIRECTORS.