DONALD CLATE “TOE” WILLIAMS OF VULCAN PASSED AWAY AUGUST 18, 2001 AT VULCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE AT THE AGE OF 76 YEARS.
DON WAS BORN JUNE 15, 1925 IN GLEICHEN TO CLATE AND CANDACE WILLIAMS. HE ATTENDED SCHOOL AT ARROWWOOD AND SERVED TWO AND A HALF YEARS IN THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE FROM 1943 UNTIL 1946 AS A RATION CLERK CORPORAL. IN 1943 HE MET URSULA ROBINSON AND THEY WERE MARRIED NOVEMBER 4, 1946. TOGETHER THEY LIVED AT HIS FATHERS FARM IN THE WINTER MONTHS AND RESIDED ON THE McBRIDE FARM THE REST OF THE YEAR RENTING CROP SHARED LAND. IN 1949 HE MOVED TO SHOULDICE WHERE HE OPERATED THE SHOULDICE SERVICE STATION WITH HIS BROTHERS DAYTON AND LEONARD WHILE CONTINUING TO WORK HIS LAND. FROM 1950 TO 1955 HE LIVED IN THE TOWN OF ARROWWOOD THEN MOVED TO McINENLEY’S FARM, EVENTUALLY BUYING THE PROPERTY. IN 1962 HE JOINED THE MILITIA AND WAS RANKED AS SERGEANT BY THE TIME IT FOLDED. ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1978 THEY MOVED INTO VULCAN, EVEN THOUGH HE CONTINUED TO ASSIST WITH THE FARMING OPERATIONS UNTIL THIS PAST SPRING. URSULA PASSED AWAY IN 1997 AND DON MET MARIE CLARKSON AND THEY BEGAN THEIR LIVES TOGETHER IN DECEMBER OF 1999 AND HAS CONTINUED TO RESIDE IN VULCAN SINCE.
DON LOVED HIS FAMILY AND ESPECIALLY SPENDING TIME WITH HIS GRANDCHILDREN. HE ALSO WAS KNOWN AS A HANDYMAN BEING ABLE TO FIX ALMOST ANYTHING. DON ENJOYED READING MYSTERY BOOKS, CAMPING AND WAS AN AVID FISHERMAN. HE TRAVELED TO SEVERAL PLACES INCLUDING HAWAII, OREGON, PUERTO VALLARTA, VANCOUVER AND THROUGHOUT BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALBERTA.
DON WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 21.
LOVING FATHER OF A DAUGHTER JULIE (DAVID) NELSON OF MILO, TWO SONS DARWIN (FAYE) OF ARROWWOOD, BARRY OF CALGARY AND DAWNA OF BANFF, TEN GRANDCHILDREN TWYLA (GORD) THOMPSON, SHELLEY (DARCY) BERG, KIM (SCOTT) HOWE, JODI (MIKE) GRIFFIN, KRIS (JIM) HORKOFF, MARSHA (GLEN) THARLE, GARRY WILLIAMS AND ALAYNA MONNER, RACHEL (AL) McNAUGHTON, KEN (CHRISTY) WILLIAMS, SONJA WILLIAMS, FIFTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, TWO SISTERS RUBY BECKNER OF ARROWWOOD, MARLENE SNOW OF CALGARY, FIVE BROTHERS DAYTON AND HAROLD OF VULCAN, LYLE (LAUREEN) OF ACME, ARNOLD (LORRAINE) POBST, HURLEY (GRACE) ALL OF ARROWWOOD, NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND A SPECIAL COMPANION MARIE CLARKSON OF VULCAN.
DON WAS PREDECEASED BY HIS WIFE URSULA, HIS SON GARRY, A BROTHER LEONARD, A SISTER HELEN (LOU) JONES, A BROTHER-IN-LAW BUD BECKNER, TWO GRANDCHILDREN BRADLEY AND NICOLE.
GRAVESIDE SERVICE WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22, 2001 AT 2 P.M. AT THE ARROWWOOD CEMETERY WITH REV. SUSAN LUKEY OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT ARROWWOOD CEMETERY.
CASKET BEARERS DARWIN AND FAYE WILLIAMS, JULIE AND DAVID NELSON, BARRY AND DAWNA WILLIAMS.
IF FRIENDS DESIRE TRIBUTES IN DON”S MEMORY COULD BE MADE TO EITHER THE PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT BOX 299 VULCAN, TOL 2BO OR THE ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION 1331 29ST. N.W. CALGARY T2N 4J8.
ARRANGEMENTS IN CARE OF VULCAN FUNERAL HOME. DIRECTORS. TELEPHONE 1-403-485-2633. E-MAIL CONDOLENCES TO vulcanfuneralhome@hotmail.com.