ARTHUR WILLIAM ULRICH, FORMERLY OF CHAMPION, PASSED AWAY JANUARY 21, 1999 AT LITTLE BOW AUXILIARY HOSPITAL, CARMANGAY, ALBERTA AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS.
ARTHUR WAS BORN DECEMBER 24, 1916 AT CHAMPION, ALBERTA TO WILLIAM AND ALICE (nee:RUE) ULRICH. HE WAS RAISED ON THE FAMILY FARM ON THE CORNER OF LAND WHERE CLEVERVILLE WAS BUILT AND THEN MOVED AND RENAMED CHAMPION IN 1910. ART JOINED THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS IN CALGARY IN 1939 AND WHILE IN TRAINING HE WAS INJURED AND DISCHARGED IN 1941. HE RETURNED TO THE FAMILY FARM AND MARRIED LAURA MARGUERITE THUOT IN 1943. THEY CONTINUED TO FARM, RAISE AND RACE THOROUGHBRED RACE HORSES AND FOR A WHILE HE ALSO RAISED GREYHOUND DOGS, THAT HE SHIPPED ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA FOR RACES.
ART WAS ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY AND SERVED AS A VULCAN COUNTY COUNCILOR, REPRESENTING CHAMPION FOR ELEVEN YEARS DURING THE 1960’S. HE WAS A LIFE MEMBER OF THE BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE #121, VULCAN AND THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH #262, CHAMPION.
ART MOVED TO CARMANGAY THIS PAST YEAR WHERE HE HAS RESIDED SINCE.
BELOVED FATHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS MONICA (CLYDE) BURTON OF NOOSA, AUSTRALIA, JOANNE (IAN) PEBERDY OF McKAY, AUSTRALIA, TWO SON JIM (SIVINEE) OF CALGARY AND BILL (KELLY) OF LANGLEY, B.C., A SPECIAL FRIEND EILEEN GALLOWAY OF BLACK DIAMOND.
ART WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS WIFE LAURA IN 1970, HIS PARENTS, TWO SISTERS FLORENCE AND MAY.
FUNERAL SERVICE WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27, 1998 AT 1:30 P.M. AT CHAMPION UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. LORRAINE POWELL OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT CHAMPION CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
HONORARY BEARERS WERE MEMBERS OF THE VULCAN ELKS LODGE, MEL BURGESS, ED RICHARDSON, HAROLD LEWIS, DAVE PATON, VIC FULTON AND PAUL WALD.
CASKET BEARERS WERE CHRIS ANDERSON, TOM ELLIS, STAN HOWE, TERRILL WARREN, KEITH GROVES AND ROGER SMITH.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, TRIBUTES IN ART’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA 218A, 2323-32 AVE. N.E. CALGARY T2E 6Z3.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. PHONE 485-2633.