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SEEGER - Marleen Charlotte Seeger of Airdrie passed away peacefully
on Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at the Agape Hospice in Calgary after a brief
courageous battle with cancer.
Marleen had been a dedicated employee of the Scotiabank since 1980.
She was a valued member of the community, a member of the Airdrie and
District Rotary Club, and the Innisfail Chamber of Commerce.
Marleen will be sadly missed by her daughter Sara (Randy) Daniels, her
grandchildren, Alicia, Natasha, Zachary, Tania and Felesha, her brother
George (Elaine), sister Dianne (Arthur), and nieces Jennifer and Christine
as well as her lifelong friend Pauline (Rick) McKown.
Marleen will also be missed by her late husband Jackís family, her mother-in-law,
Helen Hunter; a sister-in-law, Margie Hunter; a brother-in-law, Ted
(Glenda) Hunter and a step-daughter, Tracey, all of Ontario.
She was predeceased by her loving husband John (Jack) Travis Hunter
and her parents Lemar and Muriel Seeger.
Funeral service was held at the Airdrie United Church, (216 - 1st Avenue
N.E., Airdrie) on Saturday, May 4, 2002 at 2:00 p.m.
To e-mail expressions of sympathy: condolences@mcinnisandholloway.com
Subject Heading: Marleen Seeger.
If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to the
Salvation Army Agape Hospice, 1302 - 8th Avenue, N.W., Calgary, AB,
T2N 1B8 or the Airdrie and District Rotary Club, Box 3563, Airdrie,
AB, T4B 2B7. In living memory of Marleen Seeger, a tree will be planted
at Fletcher Park, Airdrie, by McInnis & Holloway Funeral Homes, ìAirdrie
Funeral Homeî, 300 Towerlane Drive, Airdrie, Alberta. Telephone (403)
948-1100.
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Shoebottom - Nellie Maurine
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.
- Robert Browning
Nellie Shoebottom died peacefully, comfortably, and “with all her
marbles”
October 15, 2002, at her residence in Edmonton.
The sixth child of Cora and Charles Wilson of Missouri, Nellie was born
at
Airdrie in 1906 shortly after the family’s immigration to Canada.
They
homesteaded in the “Fallen Timber” area (near Cremona) before
moving to a
farm closer to Didsbury in the fall of 1910.
Nellie went to the rural school at Rosebud, Grades 9 - 11 at Didsbury
High
School, then Normal School in Calgary 1923-24. She taught in one-room
schools at Enchant and Onoway before returning to Rosebud, where she
taught
until her marriage in 1934 to William John Shoebottom, who barbered
in Olds
from the early ‘30s until his death in 1972.
Nellie and Bill raised 3 children in Olds, where both were very active
members of the community. Nellie returned to teaching when her younger
son
started school in 1956, and retired (unwillingly) when she turned 65.
While at “Normal,” Nellie signed up with John Barnett to help
build the
Alberta Teachers’ Alliance, and was awarded an Honorary Life Membership
in
the Alberta Teachers’ Association in the ‘70s.
In 1980, she eloped with a childhood friend, Nyle Hunsperger, and had
another happy marriage until Nyle’s passing twelve years later.
Predeceased by her parents Cora Browning (1911) and Charles Wilson (1945);
sisters Pauline (who died in infancy, 1893), Mona Deadrick (1964), Amy
Wilson (1965), Lucy Sutherland (1993), Juanita St. Clair (2001); brothers
Ivan Wilson (1971), Dorris Wilson (1986); husbands Bill Shoebottom (1972);
Nyle Hunsberger (1992); son-in-law Michael Martyn (1984); son Dean Charles
(1993).
Survived by daughter Donna Martyn of Edmonton and son Dash Shoebottom
of
R.R. 2 Kingman; numerous nieces and nephews, great-nieces and nephews,
and
great-great-nieces and nephews.
Nellie moved to Edmonton and has lived there since 1993, but Olds was
always
“home.” Many thanks to the residents and staff of Canterbury
Manor (1993-98)
and of Laurier House, where she has been lovingly cared for since 1999.
No service. Cremains will be interred in the Shoebottom family plot
at
Bowden.
Serenity Funeral Service, 5311 - 91 St., 450-0101 Edmonton. Phil Plummer,
Funeral Director.
Messages of comfort and condolence may be e-mailed to:
<sercare1@telusplanet.net>
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