WIERSMA, KATHRYN PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT THE LITTLE BOW AUXILIARY HOSPITAL AT CARMANGAY, ALBERTA ON SEPTEMBER 11, 1996 AT THE AGE OF 99 YEARS.
KATHRYN WAS BORN JULY 2, 1897 AT MARKUM, FRIESLAND, HOLLAND. SHE CAME BY BOAT FROM HOLLAND TO BRANT, ALBERTA IN AUGUST OF 1920 WHERE HER HUSBAND WORKED FOR THE FLETCHER DAIRY. THEY MOVED TO ENSIGN IN 1923 AND IN 1928 TO VULCAN. IN 1937 THEY MOVED TO TURNER VALLEY AND A YEAR LATER RETURNED TO VULCAN WHERE SHE CONTINUED TO RESIDE UNTIL 1982 WHEN SHE MOVED TO THE LITTLE BOW AUXILIARY IN CARMANGAY.
KATHRYN WAS A MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST WHERE SHE ENJOYED SINGING AND FOR A TIME SHE WAS THE JANITOR THERE. SHE ALSO ENJOYED SINGING WITH THE SANDERSON ARMY, WHEN THEY CAME TO VISIT WHERE SHE WAS LIVING. SHE ENJOYED HER TIME AS A MEMBER OF THE SENIOR CITIZENS CLUB, GARDENING, CATS, DOGS AND A SPECIAL PIGEON WHO WOULD FLY ABOVE HER AS SHE WALKED DOWNTOWN AND WHEN SHE STOPPED THE PIGEON WOULD LAND AT HER FEET AND WAIT FOR HER TO LET HER ARM DOWN FOR THE BIRD TO PERCH ON IT.
KATHERYN LOVED PEOPLE AND TIME TALKING WITH THEM. SHE WAS ALSO A GREAT COMFORT TO NEWCOMERS TO THIS COUNTRY ESPECIALLY FROM HOLLAND. SHE WOULD TRANSLATE LANGUAGE AND CUSTOMS SO THEY WOULD ASSIMILATE EASIER.
BELOVED MOTHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS GRETA (JOHN) DAVIES, JEAN GORUP, ALL OF COLEMAN AND BETTY (NORMAN) BARLOW OF MCLEESE LAKE, B.C., THREE SONS SIMON OF VULCAN, RICK AND JUNE OF RED CLIFF AND JIM AND PAULINE OF NANTON, TWENTY GRANDCHILDREN, NUMEROUS GREAT AND GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS IN HOLLAND.
KATHRYN WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND PETER IN 1968, A DAUGHTER BUEHLA ANDERSON IN 1965, TWO BROTHERS, THREE SISTERS IN HOLLAND AND HER PARENTS.
FUNERAL SERVICE SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1996 AT 2 P.M. AT CENTRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, VULCAN REV. HOWARD BISHOP OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS WALTER POXTON, RICK BUEISSERET, NEIL BUEISSERET, DEAN WIERSMA, JEANNIE WALDRUM AND VICKY ANDERSON.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, TRIBUTES IN KATHRYN’S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO THE CENTRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, VULCAN OR THE CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME.