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Johan Neufeld

Johan Neufeld

May 25, 2020

After a brief battle with cancer, Johan Dyck Neufeld passed on from this world into eternity. Johan was born on June 1, 1971 to Jacob and Katharina Neufeld. He was the seventh of nine children of which three have died; the oldest, and the youngest two. Four brothers and two sisters are still alive. When Johan was eleven years old,...

Myrna Evelyn Empey

Myrna Evelyn Empey

May 23, 2020

Myrna Evelyn (Gore) Empey passed away on May 23, 2020, of complications with her heart and lungs. Myrna was born in August of 1941, to Wesley and Marjorie Gore, a younger sister to Ronald, and an older sister to Blaine, who would be born 4 years later. Myrna had an adventurous early life, starting out with her birth at the...

Loretta Rose Moran

Loretta Rose Moran

May 20, 2020

Loretta Rose Moran (nee German) On May 20, 2020 Loretta passed away peacefully in her residence at Villa Marie in Red Deer Alberta. She was 93 years old. Loretta is predeceased by her husband Eugene and her son Dale. She is survived by: brothers Matt (Lorraine) and Lawrence (Marg); daughters Charlotte Moran (Luigi), Darlene Moran, Dianne Clara Moran (Norm), Rhonda...

Patricia Isabell Hogg

Patricia Isabell Hogg

May 9, 2020

Isabell was the second child of John {Jack} and Alethea Thomson, born in the General Hospital, Calgary Alberta on January 27, 1932. Her early years were spent in Calgary. Sister Doreen and herself were boarded with a family near Innisfail for a short time. She then was hired to help Grandma Hogg at the family farm. There she met her...

James Percy 'Jim' Barkman

James Percy 'Jim' Barkman

Apr 19, 2020

James Percy Barkman was born December 25, 1950 at Three Hills AB to Frank and Winnifred Barkman. He passed away on April 19, 2020 at Three Hills with family by his side. Jim was the second child with an older sister and a younger brother as well as a younger sister. He was raised on the family farm on the...

Garry Brian Tetz

Garry Brian Tetz

Apr 3, 2020

GARRY BRIAN TETZ passed away suddenly on Friday, April 03, 2020 at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary at the age of 74 years. Garry was born on November 29, 1945 at Trochu, Alberta, to his parents, Walter Tetz and Isabel (Howard) Tetz and welcomed by his big brother, Garnet. They lived on a farm in the Creekside area of...

Bob Gosse

Bob Gosse

Mar 31, 2020

Robin Gosse, aka Bob, resident of Calgary, AB, formerly of Whitbourne, Nfld passed away on March 31, 2020 at the age of 79 years after a tremendous battle with dementia. Robin was born to Arthur & Mahala Gosse in Whitbourne, Newfoundland in the fall of 1940. After an abortive attempt to join the RCMP at 15, Robin somehow managed to...

Edwin Wiebe

Edwin Wiebe

Mar 25, 2020

Our Dad and Grandpa, Jacob Edwin Wiebe was born on February 22, 1931, to Peter P. and Susie (Reimer) Wiebe at Linden, AB. He peacefully passed away on March 25, 2020, at Westview Care Community, reaching the age of 89 years. Dad, with his parents and brother Elmer, moved to the family farm when he was five years old. He...

Selma Falk

Selma Falk

Mar 24, 2020

Selma Aganetha (Megli) Falk went to be with her Lord and Savior on March 24, 2020. She was born on the farm south of Sunnyslope to Lewis and Ida (Ratzlaff) Megli on April 5, 1932, the seventh of ten children. Selma attended Antler School in the Linden area for elementary and junior high, then went to Swalwell for grades 9...

Andrew Philip Funk

Andrew Philip Funk

Mar 20, 2020

Andrew Funk was born in Winnipeg Manitoba on October 28,1965, to Abe and Helen Funk, and passed away March 20, 2020, from complications of pneumonia. Andrew was a loving brother, loved to laugh and loved to play practical jokes on anyone who was close. Andy loved hugs - he would hug anyone in sight. We were told Andrew had Down...

Helen Penner Toews

Helen Penner Toews

Mar 18, 2020

Our dear mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Helen Penner Toews was born to Cornelius and Annie Bartel Penner on September 19, 1931. God took her home on March 18, 2020. She enjoyed her childhood years, growing up on the family farm near St. Anne, Manitoba together with her 12 siblings. At the age of 12 years she felt God calling her...

Ethel Rosina Jasman-Skokowski

Ethel Rosina Jasman-Skokowski

Mar 4, 2020

Announcement of Passing Ethel R. Jasman-Skokowski passed away at Rockyview Hospital, Calgary, on March 4, 2020. Born in 1932 to Paulina and Ben Jasman near Castor, Alberta, Ethel grew up in the Three Hills area. She lived a life filled with song, dancing, playing instruments, and teaming with her husband, Eugene, to bring music (dance, song, keyboard, strings, guitar, to...

Janice Margaret Blayney

Janice Margaret Blayney

Mar 2, 2020

Blayney, Janice Margaret (nee Bates) Janice was born on June 14, 1951 the only daughter of Reg and Ruth Bates. Janice passed away at home March 2, 2020 in Calgary. Janice is survived by her two daughters; Darla Blackmore and Christa (Rick) Barnhart ; two grandchildren, Osten and Sophia; two brothers Murray (Carol) Bates, Robert (Betty) Bates as well as...

Winnie Neely

Winnie Neely

Mar 1, 2020

Winnifred (Charlton) Neely was born July 25, 1922 to W.W. (Bill) and Maude Charlton of Millicent. She grew up in Millicent, surrounded by five brothers, Tom, Hank, George, Frank and Bob. Her schooling was in Millicent and Duchess where she must have learned beautiful penmanship since later in life, she would hand write thousands of letters to missionaries all around...

Agnes Wiebe

Agnes Wiebe

Feb 24, 2020

Agnes Hiebert Wiebe was born on June 9, 1930, to Min. Frank and Katherine Toews Hiebert. Mom peacefully passed away in the early hours of February 24, 2020 at Westview Care Community.Mom grew up on the family farm, the fourth youngest in a large family. As a child, she loved playing with kittens. Together with her younger sister Mildred and...

Michael Stephen Page

Michael Stephen Page

Feb 16, 2020

On the eve of Family Day, our loving Dad passed away surrounded by his family at the age of 93. Michael Stephen Page was born in Didsbury to Eli (Captain) and Dorothy Page. He was raised on the family farm with brothers, Richard, Brian, Derek, Geoffrey and little sister Mary. A beautiful young lady, Vera Nielsen caught his eye, and...

Milton Toews

Milton Toews

Feb 15, 2020

(Alvin) Milton Toews was born to Minister Isaac and Helen Bartel Toews, thirty minutes before midnight on Dec. 31, 1930, at the farm his parents homesteaded two miles North of what is now the town of Linden, Alberta. He passed away at the Jubilee Care Home, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan on February 15, 2020 after a long, gradual decline, having reached the...

Lorne Allen Thiessen

Lorne Allen Thiessen

Jan 30, 2020

Lorne Allen Thiessen was born to Gerhard and Minnie on June 24th, 1934 in the log house at Crooked Creek AB. He peacefully passed from this life in the wee hours of the morning on the 30th of January, 2020, at the Ridgevalley Home. Dad was the eldest of the Thiessen children and grew up on his parent's homestead. His...

Elsie Kathleen Berreth

Elsie Kathleen Berreth

Jan 26, 2020

Elsie was predeceased by her husband Roy, their son Wayne, her son-in-law Ian Keppie, her parents Phillipp and Katharina Hixt and her siblings Ron (Laura), Jack (Marie), Leah Tetz (Eiger), Alma Saunders (Grant) and Delora. She is survived by her children Virginia Keppie, Lynn Harty (Peter), Jane Hushagen (Brian) and Russell Berreth (Linda), her 7 grandchildren Troy, Jill, Trevor, Jason,...

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