ORVEL LAWRENCE WEBB, OF VULCAN PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE JUNE 1, 2001 AT THE AGE OF 86 YEARS.
ORVEL WAS BORN THE ELDEST OF EIGHT CHILDREN, FEBRUARY 15, 1915 IN LANGDON, ALBERTA TO ORVEL AND HILDA WEBB. HE ATTENDED LANGDON SCHOOL AND LATER HELPED HIS FATHER ON THE FARM. HE BEGAN WORKING IN CALGARY FOR MODEL DAIRIES AS A MILKMAN WHERE HE MET MAY ORCUTT WHO WAS WORKING IN THE OFFICE. THEY WERE MARRIED ON JULY 28, 1945 AND THEY CONTINUED WORKING THERE UNTIL 1951 WHEN THEY MOVED TO LETHBRIDGE. TOGETHER THEY BEGAN WEBB TRANSPORT WITH THEIR ROUTE EXTENDING AS FAR NORTH AS CHAMPION. IN 1959 THEY MOVED TO VULCAN WHERE THEY STARTED VULCAN TRANSPORT LTD. ORVEL AND MAY OWNED AND OPERATED THE COMPANY AND IN 1973 HIS DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW DIANA AND LEO KAISER JOINED THEM AND EVENTUALLY BOUGHT THE COMPANY IN 1979. ORVEL CONTINUED TO HELP OUT WITH HIS OWN ROUTE TO THE CRESTAR GAS PLANT UP UNTIL 1995. RETIREMENT ALLOWED ORVEL AND MAY THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRAVEL TO MESA, ARIZONA IN THE WINTER MONTHS FOR TWENTY YEARS WITH THEIR LAST TRIP IN 1995. THEY KEPT THEIR OWN HOME IN VULCAN UNTIL MOVING INTO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE LAST SUMMER.
ORVEL LOVED HIS FAMILY AND FAMILY GATHERINGS, HE ENJOYED A GOOD JOKE, MOST OF WHICH WERE THE ONE’S HE PLAYED, ALL IN GOOD FUN. ORVEL ENJOYED MANY TRIPS TO LEO AND DIANA’S CABIN AT LITTLE BOW AND THE ANNUAL POTLUCK COTTAGE GATHERING. HE ENJOYED PLAYING CARDS, ESPECIALLY SMEAR AND CRIB, WHICH HE WAS ONCE DEALT THE PERFECT 29 HAND, HE PLAYED IN MANY CRIB TOURNAMENTS, HIS LAST WIN WAS AT THE MOSSLEIGH TOURNAMENT IN MARCH 2001. HE CURLED AND GOLFED OVER MOST OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA AS WELL AS THE STATES. IN 1995 ON THE VULCAN COURSE HE GOLFED A HOLE-IN-ONE. ORVEL PLAYED ON THE MAGNUSON REALTY “CHIPPERS” FOR MANY YEARS. HE LOVED HORSES, ESPECIALLY HORSE RACES, AND OVER THE YEARS OWNED THOROUGHBREDS.
ORVEL WAS A MEMBER OF THE LETHBRIDGE B.P.O. ELKS LODGE, VULCAN LIONS CLUB, GOLF AND CURLING CLUBS FOR MANY YEARS. HE LOVED LIFE, PLAYED HARD AND WAS ALWAYS FONDLY CALLED “SPIDER”.
BELOVED HUSBAND OF WIFE MAY, LOVING FATHER OF TWO DAUGHTERS CHARLENE (JIM) SPAETH, DIANA (LEO) KAISER ALL OF VULCAN, FIVE GRANDCHILDREN LEON SPAETH (CARLA BRAND) OF VULCAN, JANA SPAETH (JEFF McALLISTER) OF LETHBRIDGE, DENNY (STACEY) KAISER OF VULCAN, PERRY KAISER (MANUELA LUKOWSKI), SHERA KAISER, THREE SISTERS JEAN ARENS, ANNA PHILLIPS, RUTH (“TAFFY” RALPH) YOUDE ALL OF CALGARY, A BROTHER MAX (BEA) WEBB, TWO SISTERS-IN-LAW ERICA WEBB ALL OF KAMLOOPS, B.C., GOLDIE WEBB OF MANITOU, MANITOBA, A BROTHER-IN-LAW LLOYD (MAUDE) ORCUTT OF COALDALE, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
ORVEL WAS PREDECEASED BY A SISTER DOROTHY (PINKY) REMMIE, TWO BROTHERS DONALD, BOB (RALPH), A SISTER-IN-LAW PEARL (LES) CUNNINGHAM, A BROTHER-IN-LAW ARNOLD ARENS AND HIS PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE MONDAY JUNE 4 2001 AT 2:30 P.M. VULCAN UNITED CHURCH WITH REV. LORRAINE POWELL OFFICIATING.
HONORARY BEARERS LLOYD ORCUTT, BEN DANN, DICK HAMMER, LLOYD CURRIE, TAFFY YOUDE, EARL BAKER, DEWAYNE REMMIE AND IVAN HAGA.
CASKET BEARERS WERE LEON SPAETH, DENNY KAISER, PERRY KAISER, DON HOULTON, GARY CUNNINGHAM AND DARREL ORCUTT.
CREMATION TO FOLLOW WITH INUREMENT IN THE VULCAN CEMETERY AT A LATER DATE.
IF FRIENDS SO DESIRE, TRIBUTES IN ORVEL’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER THE ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION 1331-29 ST. N.W. CALGARY, T2N 4N2 OR TO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE MEMORIAL FUND BOX 760 VULCAN , TOL 2BO.
ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. DIRECTORS. PHONE 485-2633. E-MAIL CONDOLENCES THROUGH www.vulcanfuneralhome.ca.