WILL, ALICE, FORMERLY OF MILO, ALBERTA PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL DECEMBER 10, 1991 AT THE AGE OF 88 YEARS.
ALICE WAS BORN JUNE 3, 1903 AT AIRDRIE, SCOTLAND WHERE SHE WORKED AT SEVERAL JOBS HER LAST JOB WAS AT A BISCUIT FACTORY. SHE ARRIVED IN HIGH RIVER BY TRAIN IN JUNE OF 1926 WHERE SHE WORKED AS A DOMESTIC. SHE MARRIED WILSON ANDREW “PETE” WILL IN DECEMBER OF 1928. THEY FARMED IN THE MILO AREA UNTIL PETE DIED IN 1968. ALICE CONTINUED TO LIVE ON THE FARM UNTIL MOVING TO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE IN VULCAN IN 1988 THEN TO EXTENDICARE IN MAY OF THIS YEAR AND TO THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN NOVEMBER.
ALICE LOVED HER FAMILY AND GRANDCHILDREN. SHE ALSO ENJOYED COOKING, KNITTING, READING AND GARDENING.
BELOVED MOTHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS WINONA ATKINSON OF MANNING, AGNES (MERVIN) BROOKS OF CALGARY AND SYLVIA (BEV) NICHOLSON OF BRANDON, FOUR SONS WILSON (TRESS) OF HYTHE, THOMAS (DONNA) AND JAMES, BOTH OF MILO, AND JOE OF PEACHLAND,B.C., FOURTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, TWENTY-EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND TWO GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, A SISTER-IN-LAW GENEVIEVE WILL OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
SHE WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND WILSON ANDREW IN 1968, TWO BROTHERS JAMES AND THOMAS AND HER PARENTS.
FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO MEET FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 AT 7:30 P.M. FOR PRAYERS AT ST. ANDREW’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, VULCAN. FUNERAL MASS SATURDAY DECEMBER 14 AT 10:30 A.M. ALSO AT ST. ANDREW’S WITH FR. HUDSON DELISLE CELEBRANT. INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
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