VERNE FRANCIS VOLESKY PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT HOME IN LOMOND SUNDAY APRIL 16, 2000 AT THE AGE OF 71 YEARS.
VERNE WAS BORN MARCH 20, 1929 AT BASSANO, ALBERTA TO ANTON AND ALICE VOLESKY. HE ATTENDED MIDWAY AND LOMOND SCHOOLS. UPON COMPLETION OF HIS SCHOOLING HE STARTED HIS OWN TRUCKING BUSINESS IN 1947, HAULING COAL AND WHEAT. IN 1949, WHILE CONTINUING HIS TRUCKING BUSINESS, HE STARTED FARMING EAST OF LOMOND, ON THE WEST SIDE, WHICH IS NOW KNOWN AS BADGER LAKE. ON OCTOBER 10, 1952 VERNE MARRIED ISABEL BAHSLER AT IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN LETHBRIDGE. THEY THEN MOVED ONTO THE T.J. ARMSTRONG HOMESTEAD WHICH WAS OWNED BY HIS BROTHER MARVIN.
VERNE LOVED THE FARM LIFE, TAKING THE GOOD WITH THE BAD. HE ESPECIALLY ENJOYED WORKING WITH HIS SON WAYNE ON HIS OWN COW/CALF OPERATION ON THE NORTH SHORES OF BADGER LAKE. HE TOOK GREAT PRIDE IN THE MANY CLOSE FRIENDSHIPS HE DEVELOPED ON HIS LIFE JOURNEY. THEIR HOME WAS ALWAYS OPEN TO MANY TRAVELERS WHO CAME TO VISIT. VERNE ESPECIALLY LOOKED FORWARD TO HUNTING SEASON AS WELL AS HIS BUS TOURS WITH ISABEL. VERNE LIVED A FULL AND HAPPY LIFE UP TO HIS UNTIMELY DEATH.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF 47 ½ YEARS OF ISABEL VOLESKY, LOVING FATHER OF A SON WAYNE VOLESKY, TWO DAUGHTERS LEEANN (DOUG) PRENEVOST ALL OF LOMOND AND LAVONNE VOLESKY OF CALGARY, TWO GRANDCHILDREN TROY AND LEAH PRENEVOST, A BROTHER MARVIN VOLESKY ALL OF LOMOND, THREE SISTER-IN-LAWS DIANA (ROY) ULMER OF BARRHEAD, DOREEN (DON) McLEOD OF THREE HILLS AND THERESA SCHEINOUS OF REGINA, A BROTHER-IN-LAW VALENTINE BAHSLER OF LANGENBURG, SASKATCHEWAN, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS IN ALBERTA, COUSINS IN WISCONSIN, U.S.A. AND OVER THE YEARS, THEY CARED FOR ELEVEN FOSTER CHILDREN.
VERNE WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS FATHER ANTON IN 1977, MOTHER ALICE IN 1980, BROTHER RICHARD IN 1996, AN INFANT BROTHER FLOYD IN 1923, FATHER-IN-LAW JOHN BAHSLER IN 1985 AND MOTHER-IN-LAW MARY BAHSLER IN 1997.
FUNERAL SERVICE WAS HELD THURSDAY APRIL 20, 2000 AT BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH, LOMOND AT 2:00 P.M. WITH REV. ED SUMMERS OFFICIATING.
CASKET BEARERS WERE BRUCE McNIVEN, ERNEST KIEMELE, ALVIN KOCH, DON McLEOD, ROY ULMER AND BILL CHAMBERS.
INTERMENT LOMOND CEMETERY.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, TRIBUTES IN VERNE’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER THE HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA 1825 PARK RD. S.E. CALGARY T2G 3Y6 OR THE BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH BOX 238 LOMOND, ALBERTA TOL IGO.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. TELEPHONE 1-403-485-2633.OR E-MAIL CONDOLENCES TO vulcafuneralhome@hotmail.com