EMILY AMELIA ABEL

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EMILY AMELIA ABEL A memorial service for Emily Amelia Abel will be held on Saturday, August 24, 2002 at 12:00 noon in the Minnedosa United Church with Rev. Shawn Ankenmann officiating. Emily passed away peacefully in the early hours of July 18, 2002 at the Arbutus Care Centre in Vancouver, BC. She was born in December 1900, to pioneer farmers, George and Elizabeth Ross of Basswood. She had reached the marvelous age of 101. She was educated at Winterton School. In 1918 she married William Abel and together they farmed in the Cameron district until 1942, when William passed away. Shortly after his passing Emily moved to Vancouver and has lived there since that time. During her retirement years she enjoyed activities at the Legion with other seniors - dancing, playing bingo and going on mystery tours in lower British Columbia. She also enjoyed crocheting afghans for all the family, watching television and making trips to Manitoba, to other places in British Columbia and to Hawaii and Alaska. Always active and healthy she lived independently until age 97 when she moved to Chalmers Lodge, a Vancouver seniors residence. She celebrated her 100th birthday there with family members. Besides her husband, she was predeceased by her parents, her two brothers, Clare and Gordon, her only sister Margaret B. Waddell of Newdale and by her daughter-in-law Phyllis Abel of Minnedosa. Emily is survived by her only son Ross Abel of Minnedosa and by her two daughters, Ivadell Watts of Kelowna and Norma Cleverley and husband Fred of Winnipeg. She also leaves 11 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, four great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Following the service a reception will be held in the lower hall of the church. The last member of her generation in both the Ross and Abel families will be laid to rest in the family plot in Fairmount cemetery following the reception. May the wind of love blow gently On a quiet, peaceful spot Where the ones we love are sleeping And will never be forgot.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Aug 19, 2002